Kings Cross London, October 2016
"Offend the powerful and protect
the powerless" a traveled journalistic term that means telling
the truth, drops a journalist that turned to researching the 'dark
art' of psychiatry, Robert Whitaker.
The drug corporations are most
certainly powerful and the mentally distressed are often powerless.
Hence why it was a co-op dialogue event
with Nick Putman, the founder of the NHS program called Open
Dialogue, to implement a less power and drug based form of mental
support services based around open dialogue.
A Holistic and dramatically successful
primary mental support service in Finland that has got many people to
stay as valuable members of their community, a polar opposite to ours
that is making many people chronically disabled.
With NHS professionals, people from
mental health charities as well as service users of experiences with
psychiatric harm and alternative recoveries, all looking for
alternative solutions as a growing realizat…