Older People with Mental Illness and Administration of Medicines: Consent and Capacity

Jan Dewing

Diary

Managing aggression

Brodie Paterson

Ecstasy and the rise of the chemical generation

Peter Phillips

I am the walrus

Philip Brecht

Review of the month

Anthony Clare, Phil Barker

Working nine to five

Phil Garnham, Bill Stewart, Marlene Corke, Phil Penny

Dramatherapy in practice

Sara J Jarman

Patient involvement is more than tokenism: report from the canadian federation of psychiatric nursing

Martin Ward

Finding the centre of the cyclone

Kevin Hawkes, Clare Hopkins, Alex Reed

With the possession of cannabis to be downgraded as a criminal act, David Harding- Price asks if a safer, cleaner way of obtaining drugs might emerge

David Harding-Price

The post-registration education and training of mental health nurses working in acute inpatient psychiatric settings

Julia Jones, Trevor Lowe

Pride in her roots

Control and restraint

Letter

Sarah Beasley

Letter

John Tait

Who reports growing mental health crisis in afghanistan

Christian Duffin

Tsar is optimistic about changes

Sainsbury centre sets out ‘acute solutions’

News in brief

Government spending on mental health services announced

News in brief

News

Staff urged to be more positive

Consultants’ review reveals low morale

Ian McMillan

Editorial

Ian McMillan