More Rufus May Articles Available at the University of Bradford web-site.

Psychminded Online magazine with good coverage of psychological approaches to our minds.

The Critical Psychiatry Network Articles that are ciritical of conventional psychiatry.

Coming Off Psychiatric Medication Provides information and resources about medication, side effects and the withdrawal process (I am a contributer to this site).

Intervoice  International community providing information about hearing voices.  This is such a useful site full of great writing about ways to understand and deal with difficult voice hearing experiences. Highly reccommended.

Intervoice online discussion forum A chance to share ideas and perspectives. There is no one right view!

The Hearing Voices Network Supports over 150 self help groups in England and has good self help publications. Contact them for info re your nearest hearing voices self help group. Also join their organisation and if you can give a donation as they are underfunded and do excellent work.

Interminds Events Service user lead training organisation specialising in inspiring mental health recovery events and training.

Alternatives to Violence Project Training and resources around conflict resolution and more peaceful forms of communication.

Non-violent communication International community dedicated to the practice of non violent communication  - a useful approach to conveying feelings and needs peacefully.

Working to Recovery Provides excellent training on reocvery based approaches to mental health problems

Voice Dialogue UK John Kent and Micheal Zimmerman deliver very useful training in the voice dialogue approach, a way of us understanding better different parts of ourselves.  I reccommend doing trianing with them if you are interested in this approach.

Evolving Minds West Yorkshire based public meetings, I am involved in organising about alternative approaches to emotional health and healing.

The Spiritual Crisis Network A UK based network set up to improve access to approaches to psychosis that see it as a spiritual crisis, linked to Spiritual emergence ideas (e.g S. Grof).

The Freedom Centre A Masachussetts based support and activism community: Calling for compassion, human rights, self-determination, and holistic options to mental distress.

Loren Mosher Articles by and about American psychiatrist Loren Mosher's work whose Soteria project showed that a holistic approach using less medication could improve the chances of recovery for young people labelled with schizophrenia.

Depression Dialogues Recources that take a broader look at depression rather than trying to reduce it it to a chemical imbalance.

Asylum Magasine The magazine for a democratic approach to mental health.

Bipolar Blast Blog with good recovery stories section and alrenative approaches to extreme mind states.

The Icarus Project Support network started in the U.S. for people 'navigating the space between brilliance and madness'.

INTAR The International Network for Treatment Approaches to Recovery - info on conferences and publications.

The Great Escape Bedpush Records how I and others have symbolically escaped psychiatric institutions to protest against high levels of force around psychiatric medication and the lack of choice of allternatives approaches to mental and emotional distress.

Peter Lehmann Publishing Publishes excellent books available in English on alternative approaches to mental health problems. I have a chapter in 'Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry'

No Free Lunch This is the UK branch of an organisation that seeks to promote the distancing of health professionals from the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.

Mental Health Forum Discussion forum about different approaches to the subject.

The Campaign to Abolish the Schizophrenia Label (CASL) An excellent campaign seeks to argue that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is unhelpful unscientific and stigmatising. There are good articles here.  CASL argues that just like 'cretin', 'moron' and 'spastic', which were all medical terms, schizophrenia has become a term of abuse and needs to be dropped.