Asylum out and about – summer 2019
Asylum has been out and about over the summer. Read about our activities HERE.
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5th September 2019
12th August 2019
We’ve been too patient: voices from radical mental health – new book.
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 from CritSui3 Conference
Video presentations from the Critical Suicicology Conference in Perth in December 2018. VIEW here.
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19th July 2019
In Conversation with Dolly Sen
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
Storytelling beyond the psychiatric gaze
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
Disordering Social Inclusion
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
Social Workers and a New Mental Health Act
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
Trench Warfare in Mental Health
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
Anxiety and Me
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
Psychosis and Me
David Harewood had a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned in his 20s. David traces his steps, meeting young people living...
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