Dear Readers, One of our number has become a professor! We are very pleased to be able to publish Mick Mckeown's inaugural professorial lecture. Mick has been a great support and source of energy and inspiration to the network from soon after we formed. No critical thinker automatically loves establishment recognition, but Mick's appointment to the... Continue Reading →
A mental health nurse’s first response to the launch of the Power Threat Meaning Framework
The 12th of January 2018 is a day that I very much hope will be remembered: the day that the Power Threat Meaning Framework was launched. Supported by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology, it was written by a group of respected critical thinkers, including psychologists and service-users. For me, the launch was... Continue Reading →
The United Nations and Mental Health
In June 2017, a report was read (download it here, it's free) to the United Nations on the subject of mental health. This was the third annual report of the UN Special Rapporteur for health, or to give his full title, The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone on the Enjoyment of the... Continue Reading →
The Layard Report
The following post was submitted by Jonathan Gadsby. As ever, please feel free to comment below. In December 2016 an electronic version of a new report became available, prior to its imminent publication in book form, by the London School of Economics. Dubbed 'The Layard Report' after key author Richard Layard, the actual title is The Origins... Continue Reading →
Asylum Magazine Interview
The following is an interview between Jonathan Gadsby of the CMHNN and Helen Spandler, part of the editorial collective of Asylum Magazine, an affordable quarterly magazine that is packed with articles about critical mental health. There is simply no other magazine like it in the UK and it feels like it has an increasingly important contribution... Continue Reading →
What is going on at the DCP?
This post is a short round-up of some extremely interesting work being done by psychologists in the UK, mostly connected to the Division of Clinical Psychology, taking a critical view of mental health services. It also introduces a brand new document they have produced, as well as two other important recent ones. Mental health nurses won't... Continue Reading →
The Surviving Work Survey
Hello everyone. The following post is from Elizabeth Cotton, and provides background information about the 'Surviving Work Survey'. It is an important project that we feel will interest mental health nurses (it is for other professionals too). Please forward the link to your colleagues, too. Yours, The CMHNN team. If you’re working in mental health it’s... Continue Reading →
Jobs
The following blog post has been contributed by Jonathan Gadsby. This week in the Guardian newspaper published an opinion piece by columnist George Monbiot on the subject of neoliberalism. Those interested in critical ideas about mental health will have noticed that it is a word which gets mentioned increasingly. Before Monbiot's piece, I would have... Continue Reading →
Two Open Letters
This brief post is inform followers of this network that the CMHNN have asked to be included as signatories to an open letter, written to the BBC by clinical psychologist Peter Kinderman. The Story so far... The BBC has been running as series of programmes about mental health in recent weeks. These have included a... Continue Reading →
Luddite Health Promotion
Happy New Year from the Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network! As we begin to plan our year ahead, we are delighted to present a new piece by Ed Lord which asks what it would mean to be Luddite Health Promoters. We hoped that this blog would help us pull together the strands of a critical mental... Continue Reading →
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