Just before the general election, a colleague and I met shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth’s team to make the case for scrapping the government’s flagship talking therapy service, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT).  It would have been a long, hard sell, even to a left Labour government. Politicians, NHS bosses and the media have … Continue reading Marketising the Mental Health Crisis: How the CBT Empire-Builders Colonised the NHS