The Mental Elf

Brian Dow

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Deputy Chief Exec at Rethink shares his thoughts from the inaugural Zero Suicide Alliance conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Ben Jones

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Jones from National Bank tells the inspiring story of how he worked through the loss of his father, who died by suicide, to changing the mental he...

Sharon Allison

09 May 2019

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Sharon Allison, a Partner at Ashtons Legal talks about her work supporting families at suicide inquests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Joe Rafferty

09 May 2019

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Joe Rafferty, Chief Executive of the Mersey Care NHS Trust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jackie Doyle MP

09 May 2019

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Jackie Doyle-Price MP - Conservative Member of Parliament for the Thurrock constituency and Minister for Suicide Prevention. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Steve Mallen

09 May 2019

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Steve Mallen, Founder of the MindEd Trust and Co-Founder of the Zero Suicide Alliance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Debbie Robson

30 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Debbie Robson talks about her work implementing smoke-free polices in the mental health setting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

Alan Simpson

30 Apr 2019

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Prof Alan Simpson tells us about his new role as Professor of Mental Health Nursing at King's College London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Benedikt Berninger

30 Apr 2019

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Professor Benedikt Berninger talks about brains in metamorphosis: reprogramming cell identity within the central nervous system. Hosted on Acast. See ...

Claire Troakes

30 Apr 2019

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Dr Claire Troakes from the MRC London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank talks about tissue donation for neuroscience research.https://www.kcl.ac.u...

John Strang

30 Apr 2019

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Prof Sir John Strang tells the story of naloxone, a miraculous lifesaving treatment, which has been available for decades, but is still not widely use...

Thalia Eley and Ian Everall

30 Apr 2019

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Prof Thalia Eley and Prof Ian Everall explain why they have an annual Research Festival at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. H...

Wendy Matcham

17 Apr 2019

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Wendy Matcham from ESRC and UKRI talks about the 8 new mental health research networks and the open call for a new Mental Health Network Plus Engageme...

Lisa McDaid

17 Apr 2019

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Lisa McDaid introduces us to the work of the new TRIUMPH Network (Transdisciplinary Research for the Improvement of Youth Mental Public Health)http://...

Bailey Mitchell and Dean Henderson

29 Mar 2019

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Bailey Mitchell and Dean Henderson from East London NHS Foundation Trust tells how quality improvement work has led to huge reductions in violence on ...

Lee Middleton, Kathryn Paterson and David Hutchison-McDade

29 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Middleton from the Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service and Kathryn Paterson from the Health and Work Support pilot in Scotland, speak about ...

Åsa Steinsaphir, Alexander Rozental and Maria Smitmanis Lyle

29 Mar 2019

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Maria Smitmanis Lyle, Åsa Steinsaphir and Alexander Rozental from Stockholm talk about self-admission and patient power for people with psychosis. H...

Gary Kaplan and Jack Silversin

29 Mar 2019

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Gary Kaplan (Chairman and CEO of Virginia Mason Health System) and Jack Silversin (Founding Partner at Amicus) talk about involving doctors in quality...

Annelene Hoeivang Larsen

29 Mar 2019

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Communications consultant and journalist at the Danish Society for Patient Safety talks about power and coproduction in older people. Hosted on Acast....

Don Goldmann

28 Mar 2019

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Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement talks about the science of quality improvement. Host...

Sara Riggare

28 Mar 2019

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Advisor to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, advisor to the Swedish government’s coordinator for Life Science, speaks about her life and work as ...

Joel Mubiligi

28 Mar 2019

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Joel Mubiligi, Executive Director for Partners In Health talks about achieving equity in Rwanda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Sandra Dudych and Louise Patmore

28 Mar 2019

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Sandra Dudych and Louise Patmore talk about how to move from patient partnership to patient directorship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Amar Shah

28 Mar 2019

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Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Chief Quality Officer at the East London NHS Foundation Trust talks about creating Joy in Work. Hosted on Acast. ...

Isabel Rodrigo

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Isabel Rodrigo from the Navarra Complex Hospital in Spain talks about the Patient as Assessor of Safe Practices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

Manoj Kumar

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The National Clinical Lead for the Scottish Mortality and Morbidity Program at Healthcare Improvement Scotland tells us about his work on Safety Revie...

Robert Greene

27 Mar 2019

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The Founder and President of the Hunger and Thirst Foundation talks about his work battling dysgeusia (taste alterations caused by chemotherapy). Host...

Cristin Lind and Emma Cartwright

27 Mar 2019

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We kick off the #Quality2019 live podcast with two patient representatives at the International Forum, talking about meaningful patient involvement at...

#voicehearingUoY Rob Allison and Ruth Lafferty

26 Mar 2019

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Rob Allison and Ruth Lafferty talk to Vanessa Garrity about making sense of voice hearing, following the conference at the University of York on 22nd ...

Dorothy Gould

26 Mar 2019

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Dorothy Gould, a lived experience researcher, trainer and consultant gives her perspective on research priorities related to mental health detention. ...

Welcome to the #Quality2019 podcast

26 Mar 2019

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André Tomlin from the Mental Elf introduces the #Quality2019 podcast from Glasgow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Viral Kantaria and Claire Henderson

25 Mar 2019

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Viral Kantaria from NHS England and Claire Henderson from King's College London consider how we can reduce mental health detentions? Hosted on Acast. ...

Andy Bell and Petros Lekkos

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Bell (the Deputy Chief Executive of the Centre for Mental Health) and Dr Petros Lekkos (Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry) speak about Commu...

George Szmukler

25 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society at Kings College London explains why he believes that people with mental illness are discriminated agains...

Rai Waddingham and Geoff Brennan

25 Mar 2019

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Rai Waddingham from the Hearing Voices Network and Geoff Brennan from Starwards talk at the 'After the Mental Health Act review' event in London. Host...

Lade Smith

25 Mar 2019

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Dr Shubulade Smith talks about ethnic variations in compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act and what we can do about them. Hosted on Acast. S...

Paul McCrone and Bryn Lloyd Evans

25 Mar 2019

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Professor Paul McCrone and Bryn Lloyd Evans preview the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit meeting - After the MHA Review: Priorities for future ...

Simon Wessely

25 Mar 2019

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Prof Sir Simon Wessely (MHA Review Chair) What do we do now with the Mental Health Act review? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Richard Andrews

22 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Founder and CEO of Healios talks about the digital technology for people with eating disorders that is currently being rolled out in the NHS. Host...

Tony Young

22 Mar 2019

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Prof Tony Young, the National Clinical Lead for Innovation at NHS England talks about Digital Technologies and Mental Health. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Eric Van Furth

21 Mar 2019

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Professor of Eating Disorders at the University of Leiden Medical Centre talks to us, alongside his colleague Hiske Visser, about the ways they involv...

Kerry McLeod

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

BEAT Ambassador & Specialist Dietitian Kerry McLeod shares her own lived experience of eating disorders at the London Eating Disorders Conference 2019...

Mike Slade

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor of Mental Health and Social Inclusion at the University of Nottingham talks about hope, recovery and mental health. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

Anna Keski-Rahkonen

20 Mar 2019

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Professor of Mental Health from the University of Helsinki talks about the prevalence of eating disorders in Finland, and how school nurses are helpin...

Guy Goodwin

19 Mar 2019

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The Oxford Approach - so what? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Seena Fazel and Danny Whiting

19 Mar 2019

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Prof Seena Fazel and Dr Danny Whiting from the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry talk about clinical prediction models. Hosted on Acast. S...

Cath Harmer

19 Mar 2019

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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and Director of the Psychopharmacology and Emotional Research Lab, talks about cross-d...

Phil Cowen

19 Mar 2019

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Professor of Psychopharmacology at the University of Oxford and MRC Clinical Scientist Phil Cowen talks about antidepressants and new drug development...

John Geddes

19 Mar 2019

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Prof John Geddes, Head of the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, reflects on the impact of Michael Gelder and Guy Goodwin, and looks forwa...

Mina Fazel

18 Mar 2019

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Associate Professor in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry talks about the opportunities and challenges of school mental health services...

Paul Salkovskis

18 Mar 2019

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Prof Paul Salkovskis from the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health talks to Mark Brown at #OxPsych50 - the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford University...

Keith Hawton

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Director of the Oxford Centre for Suicide Research talks to Mark Brown about a lifetime researching suicide and self-harm. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Elena Netsi and Alan Stein

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Elena Netsi (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Prof Alan Stein (Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) talk about their work on perinatal depressio...

Julia Hamer-Hunt

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lay member of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Steering Committee (OH BRC) and Patient co-Chair of the OH BRC Patient and Research (P...

Daniel Freeman

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology from the University of Oxford talks about using virtual reality to treat mental illness. Hosted ...

Alice Tickell

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Research Assistant from the Oxford Centre for Mindfulness talks about her work on discontinuing antidepressant medications with the support of psychol...

John Williams

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Managing Director of Birmingham Health Partners talks to Mark Brown at #OxPsych50 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ilina Singh

18 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Ilina Singh, Professor of Neuroscience and Society at Oxford University talks about the Epidemiology and Data Science session at the #OxPsych50 e...

Andrea Cipriani - From evidence synthesis to personalised mental health: antidepressants

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Cipriani talks about depression, antidepressants, psychotherapies and making shared-decision making and treatment more targeted and personalised....

#OxPsych50 Introduction

13 Mar 2019

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The 50th Anniversary of the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry with presentations and talks focussed on:- Psychological Treatments- Epidemi...

Emma Howarth

11 Mar 2019

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Dr Emma Howarth from the Cambridge Institute of Public Health talks to us from the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network meeting in London. Hosted...

Nicky Stanley and Helen Fisher

11 Mar 2019

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Nicky Stanley (Professor of Social Work and Co-Director of the Connect Centre for International Research on Interpersonal Violence and Harm) and Helen...

Jude Towers

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Jude Towers talks to us about her involvement in the new Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Suzanne Jacob, Safe Lives

11 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The CEO at Safe Lives talks about domestic abuse perpetration & mental health needs for the #VAMHN podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Concetta Perot & Dan Robotham

11 Mar 2019

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Concetta Perot (Co-founder/Director of Survivors Voices) and Dan Robotham Deputy Director of the McPin Foundation talk about survivor involvement in r...

Susie Orbach

01 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Psychotherapist, Writer, Activist and Social Critic, Susie Orbach tells us why she is still fighting about food and feminism 40 years after her cl...

Roger Webb - Self-harm in primary care

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Self-harm in primary care patients: a nationally representative cohort study examining patterns of attendance, treatment and referral, and risk of sel...

David Gunnell - Drivers of unfavourable suicide trends

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prof David Gunnell from the Suicide and Self-Harm Research Group in Bristol, talks about social factors like recession, and restriction of suicide met...

Nav Kapur - Hospital and community presentations for self-harm: linking across datasets

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Thinking about self-harm and suicide - hospital data can tell us who the people are, when they come, what happens to them, and what helps and doesn’...

Louis Appleby - Suicide and self-harm in young people

25 Feb 2019

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Prof Louis Appleby talks about suicide and self-harm in young people (aged Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tamsin Ford - Self-harm in children with emotional, behavioural & neurodevelopmental disorders

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are we achieving everything we can with child mental health surveys or is there still untapped potential in these data sets? Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Sally McManus - Self-harm trends and risk factors using adult general population surveys

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"Survey data have limitations, but are an essential part of the picture. We owe it to the thousands of people who generously give of their experiences...

Introduction

22 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Using data to inform suicide and self-harm preventionFollow #SelfHarmData and take part in the conversation on Twitter What do we need to do to ensure...

Louise Howard - Gender-informed and 'gender-neutral’ approach in research

22 Feb 2019

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Louise Howard - Gender-informed and 'gender-neutral’ approach in research by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Gordon Johnston

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gordon Johnston, a lived experience researcher working at the Research Collective in Scotland, tells us why he thinks the mortality gap is a human rig...

Stephanie Prady

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Stephanie Prady, Senior Research Fellow in Mental Health Inequalities at the University of York talks about the social inequalities that face many ...

Piran White and Pete Coventry

15 Feb 2019

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Prof Piran White and Dr Pete Coventry from the University of York talk about the importance of Green (nature, parks, gardens etc) and Blue (sea, river...

Josefien Breedvelt, Mike Cooke and Rachel Churchill

15 Feb 2019

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Josefien Breedvelt from the Mental Health Foundation, Prof Mike Cooke CBE and Prof Rachel Churchill from the University of York and the Cochrane Commo...

Lina Gega

15 Feb 2019

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Dr Lina Gega from the University of York talks about Digital Wellbeing for People with Severe Mental Illness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Simon Gilbody and Carolyn Chew-Graham

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Prof Carolyn Chew-Graham is a GP Principal in Central Manchester and Professor of General Practice Research at Keele University: “Whose job is it, a...

Introduction

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A network to understand why people with severe mental illness have some of the worst physical health issues of any section of the population.The Closi...

Michael Ungar

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Michael Ungar from Dalhousie University talks about Diagnosing Resilience: A Multisystemic Model for Positive Development in Stressed Enviro...

Joshua Gordon

08 Feb 2019

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The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health talks about his priorities for the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

Bridget Callaghan, Clare Llewellyn, Simon Gilbody

08 Feb 2019

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Three speakers from the “Mind and matter: intersections of physical and mental health” symposium at the #MQScienceMeeting 2019:- Bridget Callaghan...

Bill Fulford

08 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Director of the Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice in Health and Social Care talks about the Montgomery judgement and how it affects s...

Pamela Qualter

07 Feb 2019

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Professor Pamela Qualter from the University of Manchester talks about children’s experiences of loneliness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...

Sonia Johnson

07 Feb 2019

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Professor Sonia Johnson from UCL tells us what kinds of research are most likely to improve outcomes and lives of people with serious mental health pr...

Shirley McNicholas

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Women's Lead for Camden and Islington NHS Trust talks about Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House and Resource Centre where she has worked for over ...

Sophie Dix

29 Jan 2019

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Dr Sophie Dix, Director Research at MQ talks about the Mental Health Science Meeting which brings together researchers across different disciplines to...

Gary @emerging56

28 Jan 2019

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Gary describes himself on his Twitter profile as a: "Trans guy surviving the psychiatric system with a ‘BPD’ dx + all that comes with it which mir...

Marcus Gardiner

24 Jan 2019

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Marcus Gardiner, Software Developer for @SoftwireUK & Winston Churchill Memorial Trust @wcmtuk Fellow talks about this work: Decoding Digital Solution...

Tracy Parr

24 Jan 2019

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Tracy Parr from the Healthy London Partnership tells us about Good Thinking: innovative ways of finding and supporting the mental well-being of London...

Simon Gilbody

24 Jan 2019

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Professor Simon Gilbody from the University of York shares his thoughts on what can we learn from digital mental health trials. Hosted on Acast. See a...

Claudi Bockting

24 Jan 2019

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Moving beyond simplification: embracing the complexity of mental health. Professor Dr Claudi Bockting from the Academic Medical Centre at the Universi...

Introduction from The Mental Elf

23 Jan 2019

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Follow #eMENprevention on 24/1/19 to consider the evidence for a future in which digital technology can help to protect against mental health problems...

Oliver Dale

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr @OliverDale10 Clinical Lead for 'Personality Disorder' services at West London NHS Trust, talks about his optimism for improving services for peopl...

Rachel Rowan Olive

18 Jan 2019

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“Think it possible that you might be mistaken” - Rachel Rowan Olive provides a feminist critique of ‘Borderline Personality Disorder’. Hosted ...

Paul McCrone

18 Jan 2019

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Prof Paul McCrone previews a workshop on community services for ‘personality disorders’, organised by the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit....

Rachel Bryant-Waugh & Ian Frampton

12 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The London Eating Disorders Conference Chairs preview the 14th International Event that takes place in March 2019, this year focusing on "putting pati...

Felicity Callard

07 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Felicity Callard, Chair of the VAMHN Network Advisory Group and Director of the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research. Hosted on Acast. See ...