David Harper – A New Vision for Mental Health

‘If I were you I wouldn’t start from here’: Working for real change in societal responses to distress

Author: Editorial 9th June 2023 0 Comments

This article (written for a magazine for systemic family therapists) by David Harper has been published in Context Magazine. It “considers the following questions. Why do we have the kinds of mental health systems that we have? What positive changes have…
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Context Magazine, Culture & Society, David Harper, systemic family therapy

Do adult mental health services identify child abuse and neglect? A systematic review

Author: Editorial 13th October 2022 0 Comments

This review – by John Read, David Harper, Ian Tucker, and Angela Kennedy – has been published on the PubMed website. The abstract says: “Child abuse and neglect play a causal role in many mental health problems. Knowing whether users of…
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Angela Kennedy, child abuse, child neglect, children and adolescents, David Harper, Ian Tucker, John Read, Mental health services, PubMed

“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress

Author: Editorial 16th December 2021 0 Comments

This paper comes from David Harper and has been published in the Context journal. It begins: “Systemic therapists are well-used to considering the multiple layers of context within which our lives are embedded, so I thought I’d use the invitation to…
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biopsychosocial model, Context journal, contextual model, Culture & Society, David Harper, history of psychiatry, Open Dialogue, psychiatry, system thinking

When the ads don’t work

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2021 0 Comments

This article , published on the website of Canterbury Christ Church University, has been written by Anne Cook and David Harper. It begins: “It’s a sobering thought that, for many people who use mental health services, other people’s reactions cause more…
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1995 Disability Discrimination Act, Anne Cooke, Canterbury Christ Church University, David Harper, Medicalisation of everyday life, Mental Health Campaigns, stigma, stigmatisation, Time to Change

Psychology, Mental Health and Distress

Author: Editorial 9th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by John Cromby, David Harper and Paula Reavey. The publishers say: “What does the word ‘schizophrenia’ mean to you? Perhaps your first thought is of someone with a medical condition that involves some kind of brain…
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collaborative practice

abnormal psychology, books, Clients & Patients, David Harper, John Cromby, Paula Reavey, psychiatry, psychology, psychopathology

The Social Context of Paranoia

Author: Editorial 3rd July 2019 0 Comments

In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 5 – The Social Context of Paranoia – is written by clinical psychologist David Harper. It begins: “’Psychiatry’, suggests Hornstein … ‘is the most contested field in medicine’ and, as Bracken and Thomas … note, ‘it is…
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books, David Harper, misery, paranoia, psychiatry, schizophrenia