A truly horrifying report by London School of Economics, coauthored by Simon Wessely, on how NHS is 'failing' mental health patients and how most of them are denied proper help, that is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
It talks about 'people with unexplained physical symptoms' and how GPs should be better at recognising and DIAGNOSING these people as mental health patients and pushing CBT on them.
They are also counting (surprise surprise) autism, ADHD, psychosis, schizophrenia etc as mental health disorders (in need of CBT I guess?...).
What a bunch of deranged lunatics.
Here is the article on LSE website with link to report: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2012/06/Mental_illness.aspx
It talks about 'people with unexplained physical symptoms' and how GPs should be better at recognising and DIAGNOSING these people as mental health patients and pushing CBT on them.
They are also counting (surprise surprise) autism, ADHD, psychosis, schizophrenia etc as mental health disorders (in need of CBT I guess?...).
What a bunch of deranged lunatics.
Here is the article on LSE website with link to report: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2012/06/Mental_illness.aspx
The report is chaired by Prof Lord Layard. Other authors include Professor Stephen Field, chair of the Futures Forum, as well as 7 other professors of economics, psychology and psychiatry, 2 other economists, and 2 NHS managers. Names are shown in the report and all members are happy to be contacted.
For Professor Lord Layard – R.Layard@lse.ac.uk; +44 (0)20 7955 7048 (office);
For Professor Stephen Field – Steve.Field@nhs.net; 07725 498 364 (mobile)
On psychology, Professor David Clark – david.clark@psy.ox.ac.uk; 01865 618 604 (office);
On psychiatry, Professor Simon Wessely – simon.wessely@kcl.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7848 0448 (office);
On economics, Michael Parsonage – Michael.Parsonage@centreformentalhealth.org.uk; +44 (0)