Asylum Magazine (Volume 14 No 4) Winter 2004
This special edition of Sisters of the Yam came about after I was put in touch with Terence McLaughlin by Rose Snow after the Survivors Workers Conference report Stronger than Ever was printed. Read more
Asylum Magazine (Volume 14 No 3) Autumn 2004
This is our chosen title as a campaigning group of women survivors and mental health workers. We started to meet over four years ago because of our concerns about women and the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder BPD . Read more
Asylum Magazine (Volume 1 No 1) Spring 1986
At the end of 1984 a conference was held at Wakefield, concerning the plans to close the mental hospitals. The day was dominated by reports and discussions of the Italian experience of just such a policy. Many were impressed with the work of the national reforming group, Psichiatrica Democratica, which had cut across the crippling disciplinary boundaries of mental health care in Italy, and had produced very significant results. Read more