All of us are human beings and suffer the normal ups and downs of life. Often our ordinary community of family, friends, spiritual and other supports, and our own resources and strengths, are enough to get us through difficulties. A very high proportion of us, though, become troubled enough to be counted as in need of specialist help for mental health troubles.

So it is surprising but true that we professionals need consumers to bring to our attention what it is like to be on the other side of the desk, as it were. See for example my review, Dear Jennie Roberts, of her book 'Dear Psychiatrist'. Symptomatic of this divide, I need others please to inform me of key organisations and publications that I can feature here as major contributions to the cause of demystifying our business in the helping professions. Please contact me at nick.child@virgin.net

Anway as a start to this section of 'forallthat', I have (without permission because I don't know where to contact them, but hoping he and the original publisher won't mind) linked:

Dave Lowson's (1994) Professional Thought Disorder.

nick.child@virgin.net