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Human Rights and Mental Health: the Other Side of the Coin

Tom Benjamin, PhD

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Recommended article: 'Nobody I’ve been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt "proud" of their illness' by Eleanor de Jong

The CEMH recommends Eleanor de Jong's article in the Guardian's Opinion, Mental Health: 'Nobody I’ve been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illness' published 19 Jun 2023.

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ADHD: Understanding distress and the need for nuanced respect

Robin Lewis

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The inherent harm of conversion therapy

Tom Doyle

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Repost: Challenging the power dynamic in mental health services by Tom Todd

Recently written by the editor of our Human Rights and Mental Health blog, Tom Todd :

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Free training: Recognising and Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the first 1,000 days from conception

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NALHN ONLY: Free staff training on Social Determinants of Health in the first 1,000 days

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Early learning key to realising improvements in children’s mental health and wellbeing

Prof Jon Jureidini, child psychiatrist and research leader of the Critical and Ethical Mental Health group.

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Diagnostic overshadowing: Psychiatric diagnoses, epistemic injustice, and the right to health

Anke Büter

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Learnings from ceding my rights (whilst employed in a role that advocates for the rights of others)

Hamish Kidd

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Uncomfortable emotions and depression: a non-pathologising, homeostatic paradigm and therapeutic approach

Dr George Burkitt has had an exceptionally diverse career, the past 25 years as a special-interest GP devoted to counselling and psychotherapy for men, teenage boys and their families.

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