July 1: Psychiatric patient gets £400,000 compensation after failed suicide bid - judge said patient had experienced "undue suffering" after being insufficiently monitored by the staff in hospital

July 1: Leading charity backs registration of counsellors and therapists - Mind says people will be “unprotected” if counsellors and psychotherapists are not regulated. From today all psychologists are to be regulated by the Health Professions Council.

June 15: Managing director wins landmark depression case - council loses after claiming Christine Laird, left, withheld her diagnosis in a job application.

June 5: Psychiatry is the most fun speciality of medicine, says top psychiatrist Dinesh Bhugra, left, in bid to recruit more UK graduates

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June 1: People with schizophrenia not more violent, claims study - researcher Dr Niklas Långström, left, says research challenges misperceptions

May 28: Public less likely to help person crying than if knocked to ground, finds survey - charity launches campaign to give people knowledge and confidence to respond to distress.

May 18: Zito Trust to close - objectives have been met, declares group which pushed for tighter controls over potentially violent psychiatric patients (Pictured: Jayne Zito)

May 11: Charity's rock of support - Phil Harvey (left) is a member of Coldplay, one of the most popular rock bands on the planet. He also is an aspiring psychologist and a volunteer for a mental health charity in London. In a rare interview Harvey talks exclusively to Adam James

April 30: Psychiatric unit employees on trial for £2.5m NHS fraud - pair deny charges relating to Cawston Park (pic left) in Norfolk

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April 24: Treating schizophrenia without drugs? There's evidence for it - award-winning researcher and psychiatrist Tim Calton examines studies showing how psychosis can be managed without medication.

April 22: NHS trust boss defends reputation after "shocking" mental health patient death data - Erville Millar, chief executive of Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, points to "significant flaws” in statistics

April 15: Therapist anger at NHS "downplaying" of counselling and psychotherapy - NICE states patients should be explained about the "uncertainty" of counselling and psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression

March 30: "Alarm" as therapists reduce feelings of homosexuality - "Homosexuality is not an illness and therefore is not curable," says Tom Warnecke of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy in response to new research.

March 26: "Mental ill health epidemic" behind anxiety surge - 400% rise in emails and double number of helpline calls reflects recession fears says Nicky Lidbetter, left, of Anxiety UK charity

March 19: CBT "does not work” says high-profile clinical psychologist - Oliver James, left, accuses government ministers of being "downright dishonest” on depression cure claim

March 11: Professionals never engaged therapeutically with psychiatric patient before he killed - investigation into care of Ismail Dogan (left), diagnosed with schizophrenia, revealed treatment only ever involved anti-psychotic medication.

March 6: Government rapped over poor take-up of computerised CBT - treatment is fully available in just nine of 152 primary care trusts in England, according to new figures.

Feb 24: Sharp rise in anorexia hospital admissions - over decade, the number of admissions among girls aged 16 and under jumped from 256 to 462

Feb 19: Psychiatric nurse who failed at-risk patient who hanged himself is struck off - second nurse who was playing computer game at time of Wiltshire hospital ward death is cautioned

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Feb 13: New dialogues on voices - Cognitive behavioural therapy has long been accepted as a valid therapeutic intervention for people who hear voices. So what does the future hold for more
radical approaches, such as voice dialogue, asks Adam James

Jan 30: ADHD drugs are beneficial, say European investigators - no urgent restriction to methylphenidate needed says regulatory group

Jan 30: Give people with personality disorder written information on psychiatric drugs - mental health professional told information should include evidence for drug effectiveness and harm.

Jan 30: We'll check on government promise to end mixed-sex wards, say campaigners - NHS trusts which fail to provide single-sex accommodation face fines, says health secretary

Jan 26: CBT in the classroom to be piloted - if successful the cognitive therapy at school could be rolled out to the rest of the UK, says Professor Paul Stallard (pictured left)

Jan 26: City tram turned into padded cell to fight mental health prejudice - Sheffield stunt is part of campaign to reduce discrimination by 5%

Jan 22: Children may still be on adult psychiatric wards - says Steve Shrubb, director of the NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network

Jan 12: 'No evidence' for psychiatric medication by force - literature review authors, including Professor Len Bowers (left), call for more research on the validity of compulsory treatment

Jan 9: Half of mental health trusts now have foundation status

Dec 29: Mental health advocacy qualification launched - "independent mental health advocates" will support detained patients who, under new law, are entitled to support and advice on their rights.

Nov 28: Row intensifies over disproportionate rate black people detained in psychiatric units - new figures indicate no improvement since government vowed to tackle the problem three years ago.

Nov 27: Council to "champion” good mental health of children in Britain - new national body to “hold the government to account” on improvements to CAMHS

Nov 20: Life in Broadmoor hospital revealed - Victorian patient archives available for the first time.

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Nov 19: Feel the power? - Can an empowering "personalisation" approach - incorporating Buddhist retreats and dating agencies - apply to mental health care? Adam James reports.

Nov 19: Psychiatric patient stabbed social worker in car - incident happened during drive from residential unit in north Wales

Nov 7: People with mental health problems not to be forced into work, pledges minister - Anne McGuire says "safeguards” of new benefits system will ensure people not put into crisis by taking up inappropriate or unsupported work

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