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Report: Psychiatrists Are Covering for Cruelty in Prisons. A Group of Campaigners Wants to Stop Them

by Sophie K Rosa

Since 2015, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has offered prisons with extreme isolation units "Enabling Environment" status. In an open letter to the RCP, prison campaigners say the only thing the college is enabling is abuse. Sophie Hemery reports.

Talking Therapy: 8 Thoughts on How We Talk About Mental Health

Mental Health Week on NovaraWire: Despite the historical inability of psychiatry to find biological evidence for mental illnesses, we still use its language when talking about mental health. Is it time we instead returned to a political approach to mental health and psychiatric care?

5 Terrains for the Struggle for Mental Health

by Arran James

While the social movements of the 1960s and 70s were characterized by strong anti-psychiatry currents, the politics of mental health remains somewhat neglected in contemporary movements despite mental health issues being on the rise since the 2008 global financial crisis. This article looks at 5 potential terrains of struggle.

Novara FM: Psychiatry and the Post-Traumatic Subject

On this week's show Aaron Bastani is joined by Hannah Proctor as they discuss contemporary practices of psychiatry and their relationship to the post-traumatic subject.