The Merry Men of my Family by Joel Petrie
I first realised that I am mad as a bag of badgers about thirty years ago, towards the end of my degree in English Literature, at Edinburgh University.
The Paradoxes of a Newly Qualified RMN by Stephen McKenna Lawson
Note: this article was written in 2019, during my first year of qualification and before the CoVid pandemic.
Free Online Event 16th Feb 2021: Exploring Universal Basic Income’s Potential to Improve Mental Health with Prof Matt Smith
Prof Matt Smith has invites everyone to engage with his free online event on the 16th of February 2021:
“Eating at Joe’s”: the shared fate of Mad lives and Black lives by Peter Barham
We tend to think about troubling questions about ‘being mad’, ‘being white’, and ‘being black’ separately rather than in association with each other.
Mad Fiction: who has the right to write what? by Nathan Filer
I’ve just finished reading a deservedly hyped novel: My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell.
Some catches of the mental health system by Andy Baxter
Recently I read the novel ‘Poppy Shakespeare’, in which the lead character was admitted against her will to a day hospital in London and found herself in a Catch-22 situation.