Ariana Grande’s fans need to let go
The singer is taking a break from public life amid scrutiny over her dramatic weight loss
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Autistic Barbie is not enough
The future is darkening for autistic people in Britain
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The ballad of Ricky Hatton
After the champion’s death, we must change how we treat the vulnerable
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Elizabeth Gilbert doesn’t deserve the hate
All the Way to the River is self-indulgent and shameless – like all good memoirs
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4.48 Psychosis is a disturbing dissection of the mind
At the Royal Court, Sarah Kane’s high-intensity play reveals the desperation of severe mental illness.
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Rising mental health demand in children is outstripping capacity
Young people’s struggles cannot be left to spiral.
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Jeremy Hunt: Why targets alone won’t save the NHS
The NHS, as the world’s largest healthcare system, has become just too big and bureaucratic.
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Letter from Wigan
In the post-industrial north, a town searches for a sense of belonging.
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The Policy Ask with Sebastian Rees: “Listen to people on the front line”
Sebastian Rees is a principal research fellow and leads the Institute for Public Policy Research’s work on health.
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Parity of esteem has never been delivered
We need a new approach to mental health policy.
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British psychiatry on the brink
Underfunded and with bad incentive structures, the industry needs rescuing.
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NHS staff are still traumatised by the pandemic
Despite their continuing levels of severe distress, funding has now been withdrawn from mental health hubs.
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The two deaths of Brianna Ghey
In her powerful memoir Under A Pink Sky, Esther Ghey writes her daughter was being killed by social media long…
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How rotted is your brain?
Smartphones play a complicated role in our lives, but the conversation about them exists in black and white.
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Why courts could stop a teenager changing their gender
The wishes of a 16-year-old seeking to transition could be overruled because of concerns that hormone treatment isn’t in their…
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Our overdiagnosis crisis
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
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Caution should prevail on the assisted dying bill
It is far easier to give the right to an assisted death than to take it away.
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Janet Frame’s asylum dreams
The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness.
By The tension between patients’ rights and public safety
The report into the case of Valdo Calocane may impact the government’s commitment to “modernise” the Mental Health Act.
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Ghada Karmi: “The physical damage of Israel’s assault is real enough. The mental trauma will be far worse”
We have no idea about the scale of suffering – there is no historical precedent for the war on Gaza.
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