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I've set up this website thanks to Richard Rainbow of webotronic, in order to help inform people who may have seen the film 'The Doctor Who Hears Voices'. It will connect you with past articles, interviews and other media I have taken part in: Plus books, magazines, training events and organisations that promote positive approaches to emotional health and recovery. I am interested in helping to create more peaceful and helpful approaches to mental health problems. I try to do this in my work in the NHS in Bradford and also by independently helping to organise public meetings and self help initiatives. My work is very much part of a wider emancipatory movement in mental health that includes the hearing voices movement, community development approaches and other self help and holistic health movements.
I also believe it is important to speak up and campaign for better understandings in the media and through campaigning. On the resources page you will find books and papers I reccommend plus some of my own writings, the links page will take you to other helpful web-sites. I am not against people using psychiatric medication I just would like people to be able to make informed choices and have the chance if they so wish to try out other approaches to their mental health problems. If you want to help me build better resources for people experiencing emotional distress that are less drug centred than mainstream psychiatry, please contact me. If you contact me for advice I will do my best to respond but this is not always possible due to numbers of requests and my work-load at the time. |
