Happy families: expressed emotions and team dynamics

Dorothy Whittaker, Theodore Stickley

Diary

Racism and Mental Health

Joanna Bennett

The Burden of Sympathy: How families cope with mental illness

Julie Repper

Electroshock: Healing Mental Illness

Claire Marshall

Total Health Promotion

David Banks

Anne’s angle

Anne Aiyegbusi

‘Sharing ideas, sharing futures’ an international conference for mental health nurses, 30 October - 1 November 2002, Malta

Martin Ward

Alec Grant asks whether clinical supervision in mental health nursing is a triumph of hope over experience

Alec Grant

Non-pharmacological interventions for insomnia

Elizabeth H Collier, Gill Skitt

Drug treatments for schizophrenia: why they offer the only hope for patients

Kevin Gournay

The psychopharmacological treatment of schizophrenia: a critique

David Watson

People

Help wanted

Beware paying lip service to service users

Lisa Crooks

Concerns voiced over human rights’ violations in South African hospitals

CPA has fostered ‘resentment and disagreement’

Mental health nurses can ‘champion change’

Ian McMillann

Ethical issues ignored in clinical audits

‘Learn lessons from your predecessors,’ nurses urged

News

Campaign aims to help young people ‘read the signs’ of mental illness

News

Milburn launches book of users’ art

News in brief

Training central to NIMHE’s guidance on personality disorder

Ian McMillan

Editorial

Ian McMillan