The art-gallery as a resource for recovery for people who have experienced psychosis
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Are kindly and efficacious mental health services possible?
Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
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NEON (Narrative Experiences Online)
NEON (Narrative Experiences Online) is a large-scale research study running from 2017-2022. It looks at whether having online access to people’s stories of personal recovery from mental ill-health can help people experiencing psychosis and other mental health challenges with their…
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Recovering from Psychiatry- Life Beyond Psychiatric Labels and Psychotropic Drugs
Below is 7 minute video from Laura Delano, who introduces her website – Recovering from Psychiatry (www.RecoveringfromPsychiatry.com) – and extends a warm welcome to those who believe in – or who are starting to wonder that perhaps there could be…
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Community singing as part of mental health recovery
A paper in Medical Humanities (otherwise known as the Journal of Medical Ethics) reports on a qualitative evaluation of a Norfolk-based network of community singing workshops aimed at people with mental health conditions and the general public. The paper’s abstract says that…
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