Grayson Perry Talks for Health
admin2016-10-20T09:16:50+00:00Last week we were honoured to hold a very special event with our new patron, Grayson Perry CBE, who described his six years of therapy as the 'best money ever [...]
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Talk for Health launches all male programme to support men’s mental health
admin2016-09-07T08:21:35+00:00With the growing awareness of men's mental health issues, we are delighted to announce our first ever programme for men. There is increasing evidence that gender identity can have a [...]
Announcing our new patron: renowned artist Grayson Perry CBE
admin2016-09-05T13:09:22+00:00We are delighted that Turner prize winning artist, Grayson Perry, RA, CBE, has recently agreed to be our patron. In support of Talk for Health, Grayson has said "I know [...]
Mental health problems do not have to be a life sentence
admin2016-06-21T21:28:01+00:00We know that many of you are interested in the field of mental health and we try to share interesting research and articles when we come across them. We recently [...]
BBC 1’s In The Mind Season: A Disappointingly Narrow Approach to Mental Illness
admin2016-02-28T20:35:04+00:00Whilst it is great that mental health is being openly discussed in the mainstream media, we at Talk for Health are disappointed that a very limited range of [...]
3 minutes of inspiration
admin2016-02-01T15:35:23+00:00We were thrilled to recently be included in an important new RSA report by top academic, highlighting the importance of connected communities and social relationships for health and wellbeing. We [...]
Leading academics report: Talk for Health tops community wellbeing interventions
admin2016-01-21T16:12:39+00:00In UK-wide research on mental wellbeing and social inclusion, leading UK academics find Talk for Health a particularly effective wellbeing intervention. Key findings from the report were: Social [...]
Time for (Real) Change report
admin2015-08-18T12:34:15+00:00An increasing number of people, groups and organisations are concerned with the current paradigm of pathologising and labelling human reactions to adversity. In this one day event the Hearing Voices [...]
The Only Us Campaign
admin2015-03-19T17:08:08+00:00There's 'Them' and there's 'Us'. We are well, happy and safe. They are mentally ill and dangerous. Is this really true? Or is the uncomfortable truth that there's a continuum, [...]
Why we need to abandon the disease model of mental health
admin2014-11-29T12:00:26+00:00We must move away from the disease model, which assumes that emotional distress is merely symptomatic of biological illness, and instead embrace a model of mental health and well-being that [...]
