Reports and resources
Papers, reports articles from Mind's campaigns and policy work, and our MindThink project to debate future mental health policy.
All resources:
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Connecting inside and out
In many traditions, especially those outside the western world, spirituality is woven into everyday life and is an integral part of culture.
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Peculiar grief
Do you remember those watersheds in your life when your sense of who you are becomes changed for ever? At those moments innocence is lost.
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Ecotherapy
Mind calls for a new green agenda for mental health, following growing evidence in support of an accessible, cost-effective and natural addition to existing treatment options - ecotherapy.
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Get outdoors, get active
Green exercise should be a mainstream treatment option, says Marcus Roberts.
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Sibling dearest
Psychologists have tended to overlook sibling relationships, says Dorothy Rowe
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I can make a difference - in small ways
As a mental health nurse, Paul Reet knows he is working with people who experience the same issues he once did.
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Is critical psychiatry a threat?
In 2001, 'critical' psychiatrist Duncan Double was suspended for six months from his NHS practice. The suspension was political, he tells Adam James
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We need to talk
Psychological therapies are known to be effective for treating a wide range of mental health conditions. However, availability of cognitive behavioural therapy and other evidence-based therapies on the NHS is extremely limited.
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Coming of age
The history of service user action in the UK has been underexplored.
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A happy time?
Interest in postnatal depression has proliferated recently, fuelled by new research, media coverage and celebrity stories.
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Finding us as whole
I think the work of Marius Romme and Sandra Escher is to be applauded for opening up a world that was otherwise unexplored. It has helped to normalise and give greater status to those who hear voices.
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As the twig is bent
Some people never question how they interpret others, says Dorothy Rowe
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Fit for their purpose
In order to operate effectively, psychiatric wards need to know what they are and what they aspire to be.
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Changing the culture?
'Changing the culture' is the latest theme or fad. I hadn't realised that those working within the psychiatric system had any 'culture' to change.
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Trying to keep afloat
Water can introduce us to a new way of being, says Daphne Wood