by Margaret Turner | January 15th, 2021 | News
Why do we need Soteria Houses more than ever in the UK now? Why do we need Soteria Houses more than ever in the UK now? Tickets, Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 3:00 PM | Eventbrite Event Information Soteria Network UK promotes the development of drug-free or minimum medication...
by Margaret Turner | October 2nd, 2020 | News
Soteria has as a first concern the health, safety and well-being of people experiencing mental distress. Many of these have been affected by psychiatric treatments which over time have created additional health hazards – overweight, heart problems, diabetes for...
by Margaret Turner | August 10th, 2020 | News
This article sets out clearly and convincingly why the medical model in mental health is fundamentally flawed, and how psychiatry is essentially different from other branches of medicine, describing the implications of this difference. Recommended! The medical model...
by Margaret Turner | July 30th, 2020 | News
Knocking on the doors of psychiatric establishments as Nearest Relative. This article (see link above) is a moving, illuminating and heart breaking account of a mother’s encounters and attempts, as her daughter’s nearest relative, to have her voice heard....
by Margaret Turner | June 26th, 2020 | News
There have been many campaigns for choice and more compassionate approaches to mental health yet little has changed in the psychiatric system. This report may, however, prove ground-breaking, in that it sets out to note and challenge the many harms perpetrated by...
by Margaret Turner | June 20th, 2020 | News
This is an online (zoom) discussion on June 30th (in England, (different for Scotland and Wales) for people with all kinds of experience of systems, whether homelessness, social care, mental health or criminal justice. Please see the website (see in heading) for more...
Join us for Compassionate Mental Health in Cardiff this March28th January 2020