Mental health
The diagnosis question
Increasingly, mental health problems are labelled as an illness like any other. But can a focus on diagnoses, rather than experiences, harm as well as help?
Mental health report: match political commitment with smart policy
Cuts in community services have made life harder for people with long-term mental health problems
Mental health report: early intervention is key
Half of all mental health conditions start before age 14
Mental health report: how to deliver parity of esteem with physical conditions
We’ve faced it—now let’s fix it
Rituals, OCD and a trip to Luxembourg: how my friend conquered one of his greatest fears
"When the plane touches down, John gives me a sweet smile. 'I’ve done it,' he says"
How the great outdoors is transforming treatment of mental health
We need the tonic of wildness. Poets know it. Gardeners know it. Dog walkers know it. Why did it take the medical profession so long to figure it out?
The Prospect Podcast #89: Mental health with Nathan Filer
The former mental health nurse and author of The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia joins Prospect's podcast
Sympathy for the sex addict
Couples travel from around the world to visit Dr Pamela Kohll and start the process of rebuilding
Financial recovery
What can banks do for mental health?
Want to have faith in humanity? Delete the news apps from your phone
Cathy Rentzenbrink on the dangers of obsessing over the news
When it comes to mental health, the best strategy can be to have no strategy
It is easy to get sucked into treatment plans and strategies, to be seduced by some new model promising a cure in only a few sessions. But life just isn’t like that
Why austerity is bad for our mental health
The follow up to The Spirit Level rehearses the same argument but with a narrower focus