Californian dream becomes reality

Chris Hart

Web review

An experiential avoidance model of deliberate self-harm

Joseph Curran

Insight and Schizophrenia

Research round-up

Diary

Shunned

Liam Clarke

Counselling young binge drinkers

Owain Ashworth

You Don’t Have to be Famous to Have Manic Depression: The insider’s guide to mental health

Paul Crawford

Beat Panic and Anxiety: The complete guide to understanding and tackling anxiety disorders

Kevin Gournay

Dynamic psychotherapy explained

Richard Curren

The Madness of Our Lives. Experiences of mental breakdown and recovery

Helena M Priest

Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Paul Hammersley

Mental Health Policy and Practice

Geoff Brennan

Avoidable deaths: predictable coverage?

Jenny Droughton

Delivering a non-medical prescribing module for mental health practitioners

Kevin Wright, Steven Jones

Two-handed assessment in crisis response work

David Martin, David Yeman

Multi-agency public protection panels: speaking different languages

Tim Turner, Anthony Colombo

Rethinking clinical placements for mental health nursing students

Patrick Callaghan, Linda Cooper, Richard Gray

Déjà vu all over again

Geoff Brennan

Correction

School of hard knocks

Yaso Shan

People

The Millfields Charter: a trainer’s perspective

Ken Edwards

Don’t beat the system

Daniel Allenn, Jenny Droughton

Homicide: the figures

Daniel Allenn

Having just returned to the UK after a stint working in Australia, Ben Thomas is the new standard bearer for mental health at the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)

Effects of exclusion are worse than the illness, say users

‘Stop bleating’ and get on with the job, insists Barker

Ian McMillann

Activist calls on staff to break with tradition

Polarised views of nurses leads to poor experience of care for staff and patient

Children are self-harming younger, claims psychiatrist

Ian McMillann

News in brief

Twenty thousand more mental health nurses needed

RCN condemns care of children and young people in adult settings

Ian McMillann

Editorial

Ian McMillan