This, the second annual King's Fund Lecture at the Faculty of Public Health Medicine annual conference, warns that mental health policy has become obsessed with protecting the public from 'mad axemen' to the detriment of patient care. Jeremy Laurance, health editor at The Independent, states that since the death of ...
This report attempts to identify key themes within the seminar and highlight questions pertinent to the use of complementary therapies in mental health treatment. It draws selectively from addresses and workshops presented, comments and discussions during the seminar as well as feedback from the evaluation forms. The report addresses three ...