There have been a couple of interesting publications released in the last month relating to Community Treatment Orders. One was the annual G...

Part Two of an occasional series One Monday morning in the early autumn of 1976 I turned up for work at Charwood Social Services Departm...

The Masked AMHP has had a short piece published on the Guardian website in their new Social Care Network. Based on my recent post about my...

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. Sextus Propertius Psychotic or delusional disorders These can manifest in two basic ways: ...

When Neitzsche said: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness” he wasn’t referring to the Brit...

An occasional series The Beginning I think no-one has ever asked a child or even a teenager what they’d like to be when they grew up a...

(Please note that this was written in 2011. A lot has changed in service provision across the country since then, and some things may have c...