We aim to keep alert to developments in the field of mental health and share these through this website. We will cover news relating to policies and practice, research findings, publicly expressed views, regional happenings and national and international events such as conferences.
We are glad and grateful to hear of news to pass on. We’ll try to be comprehensive, however we apologise if we inadvertently miss some items of significance.
Soteria Bookstall for next webinar 24th April 2021.
Here is the link to this bookstall: Soteria Webinar Bookstall
Creating Safe Spaces for those experiencing extreme states.
Soteria Network UK webinar exploring noncoercive alternatives to psychiatric hospitalisation and community treatment orders. Speakers from the UK, USA and Ireland will talk about creating safe places where people can begin to make sense of their experiences in a...
Soteria bookshop: recommended titles.
Here is a link to our bookshop stocked with recommended titles at very good prices! Soteria Network Titles Archives - Psychological Therapy Books
Book: Heavy Light by Horatio Clare
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing An extraordinary book: deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful. It travels hard country: mania, paranoia, the huge collateral damage of madness. It shows its readers, unforgettably, what it is like...
Soteria Network AGM 30th Jan 2021 at 3pm
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...
Soteria Network in the time of Covid 19
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...
The Medical Model in Mental Health: an explanation and evaluation.
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...
Knocking on the doors of the psychiatric establishment as Nearest Relative
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. She...
UK NATIONWIDE APPEAL FOR A CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST A SELECTED PARTNERSHIP NHS TRUST EMPLOYING MEDICAL MODEL PSYCHIATRISTS
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...
Wisdom from the System: https://wisdom.maydaytrust.org.uk/#home
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...
Soteria Bristol: local group launch meeting.
The Convenor of Bristol Soteria has sent this account of the launch meeting. First Bristol Soteria Network Meeting 29th February, 2020 A small group of us met in central Bristol for our first meeting as a local group. We were all from different backgrounds but...
Only Connect….
In these physically isolating times we still endeavour to heed E. M. Forster's advice to 'only connect.' There's much current advice out there too, on how best to cope positively with imposed isolation at home, and I won't replicate it. I'll just connect by sharing...