The introductions were frosty, but I push through, inviting her to tell me why she is here. In
detail she describes her frustration with a different hospital, where, for a year, she had been …

The introductions were frosty, but I push through, inviting her to tell me why she is here. In
detail she describes her frustration with a different hospital, where, for a year, she had been …

Psychiatry is hard. My patients aren't getting better. Actually, I think they're getting worse. The
psychotic hears so many voices, I bet he thinks he's at the UN. The bulimic is spending half …

If Neil Brimblecombe (MHP 8, 3, 8) thinks he can win round service users regarding the draft
mental health Bill, then I think he should be assessed under the current Act as a very …

The government is preparing to make meaningful changes to its lambasted plans for a new
Mental Health Act--at least that is the message coming from civil servants and ministers. If …

One day several years ago, I was reaching the end of my first visit with a patient, JJ, who had
come to see me for anxiety and insomnia. He was a salesman for a struggling …

Sarah Constantine, AWP NHS Trust medical director, said:" We know this can be a really
difficult time, the way we live our lives has changed dramatically and the way we access our …

IN THIS PAPeR, I want to think about the increasing demand for therapy and counselling
during the last century. Psychotherapy did not exist at the outset of the 20th century, yet we …