I want to highlight a case that has been covered in the media this month which shows exactly why we need to be careful about the false dichotomy of mind-body dualism and why we need to be really careful about the ridiculous things we hear some frontline staff saying and doing.  It is a case […]

We know that the use of police custody as a place of safety (PoS) shouldn’t be happening very often – only on an ‘exceptional’ basis according to the current and to the next Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act.  I was delighted to find out recently that since the work I did in […]

We started deinstitutionalising our mental health care in the 1960s, not long after the beginning of a psycho-pharmacological revolution which suggested we had found effective drug treatments for psychotic diseases.  In fairness, it wasn’t just pharmacology that drove us: there were also concerns about the ethics of mass incarceration of those of us who were not […]