World Mental Health Day is celebrated every year on October 10th, aiming to promote mental health awareness, education and advocacy against social stigma. To mark this year’s theme of Suicide [...]
Talk for Health recently hosted a Special event with acclaimed author Wendy Jones (author of The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers, Portrait of the Artist [...]
Talk for Health graduates have identified an important gap in how our courses can reach more people. Responding to our survey this week, graduates (perhaps including you - thank you!) [...]
We're looking for women and men willing to share their stories about despair and hope with the theatre and film director Jeremy Weller. Weller specialises in work with untrained actors [...]
Ever wondered what it's like to run a Talk for Health "Chair & Share" group...? It's not too late to find out - but the next training starts soon. In [...]
Recently, we've realised that we need to extend our vocabulary - and we hope you might help. For years, we've used a shorthand to differentiate between the groups of individuals [...]
There are more than 400 different kinds of therapy but all of them descend from a common ancestor: Freud. Although much of his thinking has been rejected, much is an [...]
The British Psychological Society has finally produced an alternative to our problematic psychiatric diagnosis system. In summary, they conclude that all types of adverse event and circumstance raise the risk [...]
Talk for Health hosted its annual showcase event at Islington Town Hall on Thursday the 9th - Cracked! 120 people joined us to hear Grayson Perry, Kate Prince and Nicky [...]
Councils Fail on Mental Health Care The Charity Mind has obtained figures through the Freedom of Information Act showing that Local Authorities are not spending what they should do on public mental [...]
