Professor John
Read, back in the UK after a long
period away, is struck by some important changes in the way we view mental health
problems
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| Has how we talk about mental health changed? Illustration: Mend the Mind |
It’s good to be back in the UK after twenty years in New
Zealand – well, apart from the weather, the political, economic and spiritual
state of England, and the endless phone calls to India to get someone from up
the road to install a phone. Amid it all I’m writing my first ever blog! What
an antiquated old prof.
As regards mental health research, the difference I notice
most is how far people’s thinking has moved on from the old, simplistic, ‘blame-the-brain-for-
everything-and-medicate’ idea.
