The Mentally Healthy Society: The Report of the Taskforce on Mental Health in Society

The independent Taskforce on Mental Health in Society was established by Ed Miliband to look at how we can improve the mental health and wellbeing of our nation.  Angela Greatley, Chair of the Trust Board, was a member of the Taskforce which was chaired by Sir Stephen O'Brien.

Labour has published the final report of the Taskforce, which sets out some of the key next steps we need to take to become a mentally healthy society – on prevention, early intervention and better opportunities and support for those living with mental health problems.

Click here to access the report:

http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/957/

Aaron Swartz Documentary - The Internet's Own Boy

 'Documentary which explores the life of internet activist Aaron Swartz, and the circumstances that led to his early death. It traces how tech wunderkind Swartz engaged in pioneering work from an early age, helping to devise several groundbreaking computer systems. But it was his work in social justice and political organising, combined with his aggressive approach to information access, that placed him on a collision course with the US government. It ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare - a battle which ended with his suicide at the age of 26. Aaron's story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities, in which he was a celebrity. Through personal archive, testimonies from his family and world leaders in the computing field, the film paints a portrait of an exceptional young man, and explores the tragedy of how Swartz became a victim of the rights and freedoms for which he stood'.

Available on BBC iPlayer until 1st March 2015.  Click here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b051wkry/storyville-20142015-11-the-internets-own-boy

 

India’s major science funders join open-access push | Science/AAAS | News

India’s major science funders join open-access push | Science/AAAS | News





Two of India’s major science funding agencies are joining the push to
make the results of the research they fund freely available to the
public.

Psychology Revivals

Two classic texts on the work of the Tavistock Clinic have been reissued by Routledge as part of their Psychology Revivals Series:

Fifty years of the Tavistock Clinic by H V Dicks, first published in 1970, looks at the early history and pioneering work of the Tavistock.

 Click here: http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/912/
 

 

Psychotherapy with severely deprived children by Mary Boston & Rolene Szur, first published in 1983, describes the experience of severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic.

Click here: http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/913/

Managing patients with complex needs: Evaluation of the City and Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service

The Trust's AGM takes place on 22 October 2014 and highlights the award winning City and Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service.  This innovative service, which tackles complexity in the NHS and helps people with complex mental and physical health problems, is described in a recent report available here:  

http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/880/

Open Access Papers ‘gain more traffic and citations’

Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.

The Research Information Network analysed the web traffic to more than 700 articles published in hybrid science journal Nature Communications in the first six months of 2013.

It found that, after 180 days, articles whose authors had paid for them to be made open access had been viewed more than twice as often as those articles accessible only to the journal’s subscribers.

Read the full article here:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/home/open-access-papers-gain-more-traffic-and-citations/2014850.article

Personality Disorder - Meeting the Challenge

Heather Wood, from The Portman Clinic, has co-authored a new guide to personality disorder published by The Department of Health.  This aims to bring up to date thinking into the daily work of thousands of staff working in health and social care.

The guide can be accessed here:

http://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/864/