It began as an out of the ordinary referral, and then just got stranger and stranger... The call came from the Criminal Justice Liaison Nu...

While reading my blog, you may have been thinking: “Hey, this guy is so cool and experienced, I bet he never makes any mistakes!” Wrong. ...

A Brief Statistical Analysis of Outcomes of my Assessments under the Mental Health Act A reader of this blog (hi, La-reve) recently asked...

(This account has been edited to correct some minor inaccuracies. 08.10.15.) Even though every formal assessment under the Mental Health A...

In my last post I talked about my experiences nearly 20 years ago with Vanessa, a woman with bipolar affective disorder. There’s a little mo...

Vanessa was a woman in her late 20’s, who lived on an estate in Charwood with her two sons, aged 6 and 8. Vanessa had bipolar affective diso...

During my years practising first as a Mental Welfare Officer, then as an Approved Social Worker and now as an AMHP, I’ve been in a few tight...