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MindThink
MindThink is a programme of Mind work that is looking at the future direction of policy and examining key questions and assumptions that lie at the heart of thinking about mental health.
MindThink seminars bring together service users, service providers, policy-makers and opinion formers to discuss challenging and controversial issues for mental health policy. These seminars bring together people with different views for the sort of free and open debate that nurtures and supports effective policy work.
Our series of MindThink reports are based on these seminar discussions. They seek to provoke critical thought and debate, and to inform and support Mind's policy and campaign work.
- Putting the soul back into psychiatry
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1. Putting the soul back into psychiatry
 How does psychiatry related to service users? Does the training of psychiatrists equip them to work effectively in the modern world? Can psychiatry operate across cultural boundaries? Can it take religious beliefs seriously?
These questions are explored in the first report in the MindThink series, which calls for meaningful service user, carer and community involvement in psychiatric training and practice.
MindThink report 1 (PDF file)
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2. Chance would be a fine thing: Reassessing risk in mental health
How do we balance consumer choice with adequate protection from exploitation? How do we weigh up the desire for personal autonomy against the duty of care and the need to manage risk in service provision? What would a principled approach to mental health policy – including the NHS Choices agenda, welfare reform, independent living and access to credit – look like?
Mind held its second MindThink seminar to consider issues around our understanding of autonomy and risk in mental healthcare.
MindThink report 2 (PDF file)
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If you have any comments on a MindThink report, we'd like to hear from you. Email mindthink@mind.org.uk
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