Five Leaves Publications was set up in 1996 and has published around 200 literary, political, social history and other titles, including a strong Jewish list and books for young adults. In October 2013 Five Leaves secured a lease on 14a Long Row and, in November, opened a bookshop with a strong emphasis on independent publishing.
Poverty and deprivation create mental distress and make it worse. Although recent years have seen governments committing to expand mental health provision, such strategies are usually underpinned by biomedical and diagnostic assumptions that
draw on medical ‘solutions’ whilst overlooking the broader socio-economic context in which poverty-related distress manifests and plays out. This becomes particularly contentious in times of economic austerity, when strategies aimed at reforming
systems of welfare support intersect with those aimed at supporting mental health and wellbeing.
This research has been funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to investigate the role of the voluntary sector in providing mental health crisis care in England.
The Colour Of Madness is an anthology led and curated by BAME people which is made up of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays and art submitted by BAME writers, academics, mental health workers, artists and those still navigating life with mental health problems. It explores the BAME mental health experience in the UK.
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James’ Place is about to open in Liverpool. In the heart of the Georgian quarter, it is a non clinical centre for men experiencing suicidal crisis. Find out more.
Suicide is difficult and complex. It can entangle us in unending loss, grief and sometimes guilt and anger. Suicide casts shadows over many lives, not only on those who have died, and those who have survived a suicide attempt but also over the friends, family and loved ones of those who die at their own hands.
