Last month (December 2018) saw the publication of the final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983. In an earlier blog, following the interim report, I’d suggested that the primary aim of Simon Wessely – senior […]
Continue ReadingOn September 18th, 2018, the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network (CMHNN) – a forum for psychiatric nurses to think critically about their role within the mental health system – posed the following question: ‘… should there be a right for […]
Continue ReadingOn the 1st May 2018 the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (England & Wales) published its interim report. As anticipated, it is shaping up to constitute a missed opportunity to dismantle our discriminatory mental health laws. Professor […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing consensus that mental health legislation across the Western world represents crude human-rights violations, as well as acting as an engine room for the often-damaging biomedical approach to human suffering. In the autumn of 2017, the […]
Continue ReadingThe last 100 years has witnessed substantial progress towards countering the blights of racism and sexism within Western societies. Although discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity and gender persist today, the more blatant examples of these types of prejudice […]
Continue ReadingThere is a growing consensus that mental health legislation across the Western world is discriminatory and not fit for purpose. In England and Wales, the Mental Health Act (MHA – 1983, 2007), in keeping with other jurisdictions, rides roughshod over […]
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