Run and designed by Alex Vulliamy, this website contains a fantastic selection of creative writing, poetry and opinion pieces around mental health.
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Link to the Association for Medical Humanities website, containing a wealth of information about all aspects of the Medical Humanities in the UK.
Date Added: Sat 23rd May 2009

Blog of John Lawless - contains some interesting thoughs on public health and healthcare in the USA, and also has a range of useful links
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Link to 'Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry' edited by Femi Oyebode. An excellent collection of papers looking at the use of literature in psychiatry, including sections on poetry, autobiography, medical education and specific conditions.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

'Psychiatry PRN' is a psychiatry textbook with a difference. Edited by Sarah Stringer, Laurence Church, Susan Davidson and Maurice Lipsedge, and with contributions from Charley Baker, it contains a balanced and realistic approach to all aspects of clinical psychiatry along with sections on the reality of assessment, diagnosis and treatment, hints and tips for medical exams and sections of cultural references to psychiatry which include literature and film.
Date Added: Mon 11th May 2009

Centre for Medical Humanities in Durham, UK. One of the UK's few Medical Humanities hubs, an excellent resource which links with the Association for Medical Humanities Conference. Also links to some of the key academics in the UK working in this field.
Date Added: Mon 18th May 2009

Staff page of Charley Baker
Date Added: Fri 12th Feb 2010

UK based charity, running vital phone/email and text helplines for children and adolescents affected by a range of issues from abuse to homelessness, drugs to bullying. Also has pages of information on the website for children looking for information and support around mental health issues written in understandable, neutral and teen/child-friendly language.
Date Added: Wed 10th Feb 2010

From website: 'Chipmunkapublishing is the Mental Health Publisher. Our mental health books give a voice to writers with mental illness around the world. Most of our mental health books are written by people with mental health issues. We also give a voice to family members of people with mental health issues and other disabilities. Titles include autobiographies/memoirs, fiction, poetry, anthologies, stories written by carers, self help books, academic works and much more.'
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

City Arts is a creative enterprise and charity based in Nottingham and founded in 1977. We work with people from local communities, using creative arts to build confidence, well being, skills and enjoyment. Our activities bring people together, stimulate change and create stronger, healthier communities. Our projects include working in arts and wellbeing, with refugee and asylum seeker artists, young people and the wider community.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Creative Writing as Theraputic Practice Book Series
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Cultural Disability Studies Research Network: inter-disciplinary forum aimed at promoting disability perspectives across the UK university curriculum
Date Added: Tue 26th May 2009

Part of the Depression Alliance, Derby Depression Club is an excellent resource for those with depression, including regular meetings, outings and a wealth of information.
Date Added: Sat 19th Sep 2009

Staff page of Brian Brown
Date Added: Fri 12th Feb 2010

Website that contains thousands of useful links relating to healthcare, psychology and sociology among other topics.
Date Added: Fri 12th Feb 2010

An excellent website promoting Inter- and multi-disciplinary collaboration and projects. See in particular the Probing the Boundaries section, which includes crucial questions regarding madness and humanity. FROM HOME PAGE: "Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a forum for the exchange and interaction of ideas, research and points of view that bear on a wide range of issues of concern and interest in the contemporary world. We promote and sponsor inter- and multi-disciplinary encounters by bringing people together from differing contexts, disciplines, professions, and vocations, with the aim to engender and nurture engagements that cross the boundaries of intellectual work. Our projects, conferences and publishing activities are creative and novel, and they evolve constantly as we seek out and foster emergent developments. Inter-Disciplinary dialogue enables people to go beyond the boundaries of what they usually encounter and share in perspectives that are new, challenging, and richly rewarding. This kind of dialogue often illuminates one’s own area of work, is suggestive of new possibilities for development, and creates exciting horizons for future conversations with persons from a wide variety of national and international settings. We are committed to the view that inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary work is the only credible way forward in a rapidly changing world. We cordially invite you to be partners in the dialogue."
Date Added: Thu 14th May 2009

Link to Medical Humanities journal
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Journal - 'Journal of Medical Humanities'
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Journal - "Literature and Medicine"
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

JOURNAL - The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

JOURNAL- Journal of Applied Arts and Health
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Website for Lapidus, an organisation dedicated to the creative and practical use of language, literature and writing to improve health and wellbeing. From website: 'Members of Lapidus come from all walks of life but we have one thing in common - an interest in healing and personal development through writing and reading. That means anyone can join and our members include non-professionals, writers and poets, medical and healthcare professionals, therapists, social workers, librarians, academics, teachers, service users, survivors and service providers who may work in a variety of therapeutic environments. We are dedicated to developing the potential and actual benefits of creative words all in our own ways through creative writing workshops, storytelling, poetry sessions or in hospitals, health centres, mental health organisations or community settings. Wherever it happens we all wish to grow and develop personally and creatively.'
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Direct link to the NYU database with keyword 'mental illness'
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

The UK's biggest Mental Health charity and a wealth of information, related links and advice
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

This online journal resource produced by New York University's School of Medicine serves as a dynamic annotated bibliography for journals and magazines.
Date Added: Wed 6th May 2009

Patient Vocies is a collection of individual's expereinces aimed at improving clinical practice and health care experience, and enhancing reflective practice, via the use of an easily navigated digital resource / collection.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Staff page of Paul Crawford
Date Added: Fri 12th Feb 2010

Website of the interesting creative project Saman Machine. From The Author, Bruce Stater: Shaman Machine raises many questions regarding the relations between creativity & madness, the role of image-making & narrativizing in therapeutic & self-organizational processes, the politics of psychiatric discourse & institutional professionalism in the constitution of our definitions & conceptions of madness, & the possibility of regarding the complex phenomenological & semiotic matrix of experiences defined by the term "psychosis" as meaningful & purposive rather than dysfunctional, unorganized, & incoherent. Shaman Machine additionally links to a variety of creative projects which address, explore, problematize, & reconsider a wide variety of our familiar models & definitions of mental illness.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

The aim of this website is to share good practice around the participation of service users and carers in social work education.
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Excellent website detailing the work of Georgina Wakefield, a long term carer who is also a proliffic writer and educator, working on issues around caring for others, improving mental health services for carers and users, and providing advice for carers themselves. FROM WEBSITE: "Welcome to our official website which is inspired by our youngest son Christian and designed to share some of our thoughts, views and experiences with you. I have been on both sides of the fence having suffered from anxiety and depression and then finding myself carer to Christian who developed Paranoid Schizophrenia at the age of 16, he is now 35. My husband Paul has supported both of us, he accompanies me to training sessions and conferences. Spotlight on Schizophrenia offers training for mental health professionals from "a whole family perspective" We also give free advice to mental health carers. What we dont know we guarantee to find out for you. We can tailor workshops to your individual needs. Based on our experiences our aim is to raise the profile of mental illness and improve the services offered to patients. Here I will share some of my personal poems including excerpts from my published books. Using the power of words and family photo's we bring the audience as far into the world of the mental health carer as possible."
Date Added: Thu 30th Jul 2009