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Physical health and well-being in mental health nursing

01 October 2011

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

WHEN I first picked up this book I thought, as a mental health nurse attempting to review a book on physical health care, I would struggle to follow it all. I was...

Mental Health Policy and Practice

01 February 2007

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This is a truly excellent book. You know, I never thought I would say this about a book with the word ‘policy’ in the title, but it happens to be true.

Déjà vu all over again

01 February 2007

Mental Health Practice

Letter

In recent months I have read the letters page of MHP with a weary sense of déjà vu. It seems that mental health nurses like nothing more than a negative, polarising...

Cognitive behavioural therapy: a practical guide to helping people take control

01 February 2009

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

There are some very good things about this book. Danny Lam opens the book with a very personal description of leaving home and goes on to write a clear, jargon-free...

Don’t mind me

01 September 2009

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

CHIPMUNKAPUBLISHING DESCRIBES itself as ‘the mental health publisher’ and I was intrigued as much by the publisher as by what I was reading. But more about that...

Out of Time

01 September 2006

Mental Health Practice

Resources

This book is a deeply personal account of a young man’s recovery from a druginduced psychotic breakdown. James Fountain was 16 when, by all accounts, he had his...

End of an era

01 July 2009

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

Oscar wilde wrote that ‘the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it’. As you read this the National Service Framework for Mental Health reaches the end of its...

Voices - Just as bad as sticks and stones

01 February 2009

Mental Health Practice

Voices

Paul, a deputy ward manager, comes to me quietly and asks if he can have a word. A man well known to us both had been readmitted and Paul found himself in the...

Schizophrenia revealed: from neurons to social interactions

01 April 2002

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

The blurb on the jacket states that ‘this book provides you with all you need to know to understand this complex illness’. The illness is schizophrenia and, indeed,...

Seminars in general adult psychiatry

01 September 2008

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

Okay, let’s get things straight right from the off. One, this is a book written by doctors, primarily for doctors. Two, it’s huge and covers the world, the universe...