While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Semantics instead of treatment
The move away from an ‘illness’ to ‘personal responsibility’ puts the onus on the patient to find the answers, so they can get themselves better, writes Ruth Hunt
Two solidarity messages by poet and mental health campaigner, Hussain are projected onto residential buildings
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE demand for psychiatric services, including inpatient beds, is at an all-time high, but the capacity to treat such inpatients has not kept up, with some regions in the UK faring worse than others, the Royal College of Psychiatrists report from 2019 found.
This has resulted in the threshold for getting admitted increasing, leaving service-users who are unwell, including some people with a serious mental illness such as depression not meeting the threshold for admission.
These service-users might be offered therapeutic tools through Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and receive, for example, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or they might try to find a therapist, on a private basis, who can help them deal with their symptoms.
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