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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A mental health system survivor
We must hold on to the possibility of recovery for all people in distress.
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The lion's cage
ForUs, a mental health user group, has successfully challenged the traditional power base of service providers within their local borough in Wales.
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Mindinfo: Recovery
We have a working definition of Recovery which says: "The uniquely personal and ongoing act of claiming and gaining the capacity to take control of life that is personally meaningful and satisfying".
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Prescribing choices - holistic health in primary care
Taking medication for depression, and for a range of mental health problems, can be an impersonal, lonely affair. And the world, it seems, is gobbling up the message of 'just keep on taking the pills'.
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Treading water
It was 1992 when I first became involved in the mental health system. I got to know a young man who, like me, is Black and has a love of African jazz music.
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Why we hate
Hatred has been in the news. We've seen pictures of Muslims in the Middle East and in Indonesia demonstrating their hatred of the USA, and Americans plaintively asking, "Why do people hate us?"
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Safe, sound and surgical
The white paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act (2001), is a key part of the Government's reform of mental health law, which claims to be creating a modern service that is 'safe, sound and supportive'.
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Answering back
I woke up to the Today programme as the story of Sarah Lawson's death was being told. A version of it anyway. Half-asleep, my first thought was "Oh no, it's a field day for the lock-em-up brigade."
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Never again
The Department of Health has preached for several years the importance of user/consumer involvement in health service development.
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Rejecting the concept of 'carer'
If you are sane, you have mothers, fathers, siblings, partners, children. But if you have mental health problems, then these people become 'carers'.
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Power of veto
It is becoming increasingly common to involve service users in staff recruitment. But, as usual, there is a world of difference between the real thing and the hollow gesture.
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From petitions to professionals
The development of independent advocacy has been a feature of mental health services in the last 15 years.
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Self-harm/self-defence
In September 1999 Sharon Lefevre, a mother-of-three, hanged herself at her home. The local paper in Dolgellau, north Wales, simply reported the death as a suicide by a depressed woman.
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Asylum seekers
There has been a great deal of recent debate about asylum seekers, not just in the UK, but also across Europe, the US, Australia and Canada. In Britain, some elements of the political establishment have worked with the right-wing media to foster a climate