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12th August 2019
Overly medicating minors, police brutality, electro-convulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization--not to mention the traumas that lead to intense altered states and...
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12th August 2019
Video presentations from the Critical Suicicology Conference in Perth in December 2018. VIEW here.
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19th July 2019
In this episode of the One Small Thing podcast Edwina Grosvener talks to artist, mental health activist and all round...
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19th July 2019
Inviting people with lived experience to share their stories is now common practice in education, mental health, and broader community...
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19th July 2019
What new ethical quandaries are produced through the normalization of mental health service user inclusion as a best practice? (more…)
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19th July 2019
Parliamentarians and social workers are jointly calling on the Government and NHS Trusts to recognise the social factors of mental...
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19th July 2019
The battle between biomedical vs psychological understandings of mental health has continued for over a century. But, asks Tony Roberts,...
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19th May 2019
Since Nadiya Hussain won Bake Off in 2015 she’s rarely been off our screens. But behind the scenes Nadiya suffers...
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19th May 2019
David Harewood had a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned in his 20s. David traces his steps, meeting young people living...
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19th May 2019
Many voices are not heard in British mental health care (and beyond), significant flaws are overlooked. If you are not satisfied...
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19th April 2019
We are gradually uploading older issues of Asylum, which will be available as free downloads. Volume 17 is now online....
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18th April 2019
Are you a Lived Experience Practitioner (LXP)? (Mad) Academic? Student? Clinician? Service User? Carer? (more…)
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12th April 2019
These 15 videos were created by Elisabeth Svanholmer, Charlie Heriot-Maitland and Rufus May. Filming and editing by John Richardson and his...
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11th April 2019
The UK mental healthcare system is deemed by many to be failing its users, and lauded by many more as...
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8th April 2019
Rachel Waddingham hears voices. The first time she heard them she was lying in a bed. “You’re so stupid”, “they...
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6th March 2019
Helen Spandler recently had the welcome task of reading through every single back issue of Asylum. Here she writes about...
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25th February 2019
Written by Laura Lindow in collaboration with Chilli Studios, a Mental Health charity based in Byker. (more…)
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25th February 2019
The editorial group at Asylum are keen to find out how the magazine is being used in teaching. (more…)
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14th February 2019
Available for pre-order, this book will be out in May. (more…)
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30th January 2019
We need to start talking and networking – finding common ground and common language with the other people around us. We...
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30th January 2019
An introductory course for mental heatlh practitioners and advocates who want to gain knowledge about alternative practices and become change-makers...
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26th January 2019
Forthcoming workshops are to be held in Cardiff, York, Wolverhampton and Penrith. (more…)
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15th December 2018
Summit on Global Mental Health Sparks Critical Response from Service-Users and Rights-Groups Mental health service-users, rights-groups and professionals advise caution...
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23rd November 2018
The goal of Autonomous Management of Mental Health Medication is to allow the person who is taking medication to get...
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23rd November 2018
A reflection on the writer's recent experiences of starting a DClinPsy course as someone who has struggled with their mental...
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23rd November 2018
Following the launch of the Survivor Research Network Manifesto and review of the future of SRN with NSUN, we are...
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18th November 2018
PRESS RELEASE – MENTAL HEALTH PROTEST On 20th November 2018, Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) will be protesting against mental...
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3rd November 2018
A Melbourne Social Equity Institute research team has undertaken a systematic review of global practices that aim to reduce, prevent...
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12th October 2018
This animation was commissioned to disseminate the findings from a research project carried out at Middlesex University. (more…)
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11th September 2018
MITUK’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for fundamentally re-thinking theory and practice in the field of mental health...
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9th September 2018
More than 200 patients killed themselves in mental health units over seven years, new figures have revealed, prompting concern about...
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9th September 2018
How should we understand our mental health needs? A new approach has been unveiled this year: the Power, Threat, Meaning...
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9th September 2018
Between 6 and 18 November, Professor Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, will...
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14th August 2018
Women and girls detained under the Mental Health Act are taking their lives at “appalling” rates, according to a report from Agenda,...
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14th August 2018
Intentional Peer Support is a way of thinking about and inviting transformative relationships. (more…)
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14th August 2018
More than 100 artists raise mental health awareness through art & activism. (more…)
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14th August 2018
Women’s experiences have to be understood in the context of a social world where we are still far from achieving...
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14th August 2018
The Women’s Mental Health Network (WMHN) is the latest project from Wish, a women’s mental health charity. (more…)
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6th August 2018
New blog posting by Emily Cutler on the Radical abolitionist web site. (more…)
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25th July 2018
This Mad in America blog by Nev Jones and Emily Cutler makes two points. First, it suggests that judgements of...
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24th July 2018
Dilemmas and decisions about medication are central to the lives of people with experience of mental health issues. (more…)
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19th July 2018
At the first critical perspectives conference, in 2009, recovery principles and practices were debated and discussed with a considerable optimism...
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17th July 2018
Mad in Asia is an online platform whose primary mission is to contribute to changing the narrative about madness and...
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17th July 2018
Community Open Online Courses (COOCs) are an opportunity for people to share their passions, ideas and knowledge with each other....
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15th July 2018
The Critical Social Policy Solidarity Fund seeks to support activist projects that align with the aims and mission of Critical Social...
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13th July 2018
22 ceramic artists and makers have made pieces in response to their individual mental health journeys, emulating the full and...
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10th July 2018
Mental health challenges can interrupt the progress of education and employment. (more…)
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A meeting was held in Trieste on 21-23 June 2018: DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTHCARE - Participation, citizenship and reform processes...
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2nd July 2018
#0Contenciones (zero restraints) is a campaign to end the practice of physical restraint in Spanish psychiatric facilities. (more…)
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1st July 2018
The SRN Manifesto has been written by the volunteer members of the Survivor Researcher Network working group who come from...
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1st July 2018
The Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) is a usercontrolled independent network for all mental health service users and survivors with an interest in...
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30th June 2018
This new book, by Noël Hunter, represents a critical exploration of the mental health system as it pertains to individuals...
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27th June 2018
This series of eight online webinars will introduce participants to mad studies, an emerging, interdisciplinary field encompassing a variety of...
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25th June 2018
This survey aims to improve mental health services by improving understanding medication withdrawal. Lead researcher is Will Hall, a therapist,...
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20th June 2018
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Five Leaves Publications was set up in 1996 and has published around 200 literary, political, social history and other titles,...
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20th June 2018
Poverty and deprivation create mental distress and make it worse. Although recent years have seen governments committing to expand mental health...
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20th June 2018
This research has been funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to investigate the role of the voluntary...
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11th June 2018
The Colour Of Madness is an anthology led and curated by BAME people which is made up of fiction, poetry,...
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8th June 2018
James' Place is about to open in Liverpool. In the heart of the Georgian quarter, it is a non clinical...
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7th June 2018
Suicide is difficult and complex. It can entangle us in unending loss, grief and sometimes guilt and anger. Suicide casts...
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4th June 2018
A mental health documentary exploring people's encounters with psychiatric medication. It is not giving advice. It is giving a voice....
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28th May 2018
The 3rd Conference of the Critical Suicide Studies Network (a.k.a. CritSui3), will be held in Perth WA at the University...
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19th May 2018
SHIP OF FOOLS, a mental health writers' collective, was set up in May 2018 by Mary Anne Hill, who is...
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9th May 2018
ISPS UK promotes psychological and social approaches to psychosis. They run national and regional conferences and workshops on key issues,...
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4th May 2018
At this juncture of intense welfare reform and contracting public provision, the question of how we imagine the welfare state,...
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3rd May 2018
The independent review of the Mental Health Act was set up to look at how the legislation in the Mental...
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11th April 2018
The Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) is an independent, user-controlled and diverse network for all mental health service users and survivors...
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25th March 2018
Emotional CPR (eCPR) is an educational program designed to enable people to help others through an emotional crisis through: C =...
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25th March 2018
We have added a Calendar to the Asylum website. Please contact us with events to add.
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24th March 2018
In the second of the Centre for Mental Health's series We need to talk about social care, Kim Woodbridge-Dodd looks at...
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24th March 2018
#socialcarefuture is an initiative - voluntarily organised - which aims to bring about major positive change in what is currently called...
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22nd March 2018
We are setting up a page on the website with links to Asylum readers' blogs. Please contact us to add...
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21st March 2018
'Maintaining momentum' highlights failings in specialist mental health services in England, and the devastating toll this takes on patients and their...
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21st March 2018
'Have you ever wondered what mental healthcare would look like if, knowing what we know today, it could be redesigned...
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12th March 2018
The Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies programme is 'failing the mental health needs of communities all over England', while working...
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2nd March 2018
Book Reviews Is there a mental health related book you’d like to review? If so, we might be able to...
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19th February 2018
We have a new Asylum flyer. Download it here. Nail it to a noticeboard, wedge it in a window, tape...
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18th February 2018
The LEP research team invite you to take part in a short survey gathering information on lived experience employment. Their...
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12th February 2018
This stream of the Lancaster Disability Studies Conference - led by the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC) - aims to...
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12th February 2018
Researchers, policy makers, practitioners and activists from all over the world come together at the Lancaster Disability Studies conference. The...
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10th February 2018
Can today's crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism? We asked the panelists to reflect on...
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7th February 2018
"I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect." Award-winning chemical romance. Connie (Jessie Buckley -...
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2nd February 2018
The mental health of young women and girls is deteriorating, and the gap between men and women has widened over...
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24th January 2018
Written by Sarah Carr and Peter Beresford, Social Policy First Hand is the first comprehensive international social policy text from...
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19th January 2018
The Mental Health Resistance Network presents SolidariTEA at the Field in Pckham, on1st Feb 2018. It's a spoken word event...
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15th January 2018
The framework described here, the Power Threat Meaning Framework, is an over-arching structure for identifying patterns in emotional distress, unusual...
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8th January 2018
This list was compiled following the Asylum Action & Reaction conference and will shortly be integrated in to the links...
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Late 20 something year old, trying to work out what the F is going on in life whilst being saddled...
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