A recent programme from South Africa on mental health provision in the country.  I first looked at certain issues around mental health and criminal justice in South Africa ahead of going there on holiday last year.  It was clear from visiting various urban and rural areas that there was much unmet mental health need and a […]

Have you heard the story about the Zen Master and the Little Boy?! … The boy’s father bought him a horse for his fourteenth birthday and everyone in the village said, “Isn’t that wonderful, the boy got a horse?” and the Zen Master said, “We’ll see.” A couple of years later the boy fell from […]

We’ve been reading a lot recently about the impact of cuts and rationalisation of mental health services – the Health Select Committee of the UK parliament recently published a document which highlights a lack of parity for mental health and physical health care, having been dogged by difficulties in patients accessing services and the ineffectiveness of […]