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2010:
April 5, 2010: "Want user-led mental health services? We've done it for a decade - Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service has for 10 years run a multi-award winning non-medical sanctuary for people with mental health problems. It prides itself on being user-led. Adam James explains why it has made its mark in mental health history.
Jan 22: Her own way - Judi Chamberlin's book On Our Own was held up as a rallying cry for the mental health service-user movement when it was published in 1977. Louise Pembroke remembers the American activist who died on January 16.
 Jan 21: 'Many service user workers are still wobbly' - the recovery ideal in mental health has been lost and the NHS is taking advantage of compliant service users. It's time to get radical again says Marion Aslan, left. By Adam James
2008:
 Oct
3: Magazine dedicated to “unsung hero” of mental health
- grassroots mental health magazine tribute to Terence McLaughlin
 August
7: Top names in radical mental health at conference - event
will showcase critical work on psychiatry and psychology, says co-organiser
Ian Parker, left
 EXCLUSIVE
June 13: 'Mental
illness is petrifying' - day-to-day life as an inpatient on
a psychiatric unit is being documented on an internet blog by Mandy
Lawrence, left,
 May
21: Almost all psychiatric patients oppose smoking ban on units,
study claims
- but patients at Rampton, pictured left, lose test case
for right to continue smoking. Judges ruled ban was justified for
"health and security" reasons.
 May
1: Psychologist's non-drug approach provokes storm of reactions
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psychiatrists call NHS clinician's work “dangerous”.
But other professionals give support
EXCLUSIVE:
April
18: Underground recovery - Clinical
psychologist Rufus May
explains why, when using a non-drug approach to help a doctor who
heard voices, he had no choice but to work in secret.
 April
2: Mental health TV drama seen by 1.3 million -
Poppy Shakespeare was a dramatisation of the book, left,
by Clare Allen who spent ten years as a patient at a London day
centre. What did you
think?
March
20: Psychiatric patients launch test case for right to smoke while
detained
- patients could be only group of people banned from smoking "in
the privacy of their own home", judges told
 EXCLUSIVE:
Jan 16: Schizophrenia psychologist launches 'coming off' psychiatric
drugs website - Rufus May, left, fears medication withdrawal
effects are confused with illness symptoms
 Jan
16: 'The Henderson saved my life' - here's why the acclaimed
personality disorder unit
should stay open, writes Kath Lovell
2007:
 May
2: Expert advice? Service user knowledge from around Europe
is being collated to boost the status of user expertise. But will
it come to anything, asks Adam James?
2006:
Feature:
July 21: The art
of staying out - how does one patient peer-support project reduce
time its members spend in hospital by 89 per cent?
July
21: Online directory of mental health service user groups launched
July
7: Government has rejected call for mental health service user “tsar”
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Professor Louis Appleby has said so himself states mental health
group
Jan
31: Government to pay service users to talk to journalists on mental
health - scheme bids to promote positive media coverage of
stories relating to schizophrenia, manic depression and personality
disorder
2000
Sept
23, 2000: Going undercover - When Rufus May was a teenager he
was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and told he would have
to take medication for the rest of his life. He since came off all
medication and is now a clinical psychologist with a message, writes
Adam
James
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