Balancing act that works

Phil Barker exposes the psychiatric ‘Catch 22’ that continues to bedevil mental health legislation

Phil Barker

Web review

Nonspecific supportive clinical management of anorexia nervosa is superior to the specialised treatments of cognitive behaviour therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy

Paul Rogers

Empirical support for Beck’s cognitive theory of depression

Paul Rogers

St John’s Wort as effective as paroxetine in moderate to severe depression

Paul Rogers

Comprehensive textbook of geriatric care

John Keady

How to lift depression …(fast)

Peter Campbell

Promoting the emotional well-being of children and adolescents and preventing their mental ill-health: a handbook

Tim McDougall

Eyes Without a Sparkle

Ruth Rothman

Dual diagnosis toolkit: mental health and substance misuse

Mark Holland

Community psychology

Mike Smith

The tidal model

Tony Gillam

My mental health

Matthew Kent

A development initiative for newly qualified mental health nurses

Laura O’Hanlon, Trish Reynolds, Cathy Gale

Towards hope and inclusion: Nursing interventions in a medium secure service for men with ‘personality disorders’

Richard Byrt, Cathy Wray

Cognitive behavioural therapy: helping the client find her voice

Justine Chase Gray, Alec Grant

Methadone maintenance treatment as an effective harm minimisation intervention

Owain Ashworth

Focus on psychiatric observation

Louise Bouic

Safe and supportive observation in practice: a clinical governance project

Trish Reynolds, Margaret O’Shaughnessy, Lucy Walker, Stephen Pereira

Oliver’s army on the way?

Sylvia Ann Jenkins

Diary

From the director’s chair

Jon Allen

People

Money talks

Kim Sherrington

Action speaks louder

Peter Campbell

Email interview

Paul Farmer

Fatally flawed?

Daniel Allen

Veteran’s stakeholder day

Ian Hulatt

Give traumatised patients more support, says NICE

Ian McMillann

Innovations in dementia care

News in brief

Census offers chance to end ethnic bias

Ian McMillann

Editorial

Ian McMillan