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Peer support has a history

The following is the text of a talk given by Mark Brown at Ancient Approaches in Modern Healthcare, the Central and North West London NHS…

Jul 20, 2023

Peer support has a history

Jul 20, 2023

Mental health and the cost of living crisis

Being poor and experiencing mental ill-health don’t have to be entwined, but they are because of the ways we have set up our society and…

Jan 30, 2023

Mental health and the cost of living crisis

Jan 30, 2023

“If you don’t embrace AI, someone more evil than you already has.”

The following is the text of an opening remark made by Mark Brown via Zoom to the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress…

Jun 20, 2022

Someone holds a dot matrix style screen with the words ‘Hideous Face of Crumpled Linen’ against the backdrop of a darkened room

Jun 20, 2022

The pandemic turned digital mental health from the understudy to the star…

…but the notices were lacking and the auditorium mostly empty

Sep 30, 2021

The pandemic turned digital mental health from the understudy to the star…

Sep 30, 2021

Mental health user-led activity as autonomous community action

The following is the text of a lecture given to Goldsmiths College, University of London Social Entrepreneurship MA students via video…

Jun 8, 2021

Mental health user-led activity as autonomous community action

Jun 8, 2021

The ethics of digital mental health aren’t just about the NHS

Technology has the capacity to cross boundaries. It can find its way into secrets of people’s lives like a woodlouse into a damp home.

May 24, 2021

May 24, 2021

What does the Mental Health Act White Paper mean?

In January 2021 The UK Government published Reforming The Mental Health Act, a White Paper setting out proposed changes to the Mental…

Apr 20, 2021

What does the Mental Health Act White Paper mean?

Apr 20, 2021

Social media and early career researchers: don’t be a dick

You don’t need to act the goat for clout to change the world

Jan 27, 2021

Social media and early career researchers: don’t be a dick

Jan 27, 2021

How can you solve problems in mental health with entrepreneurship if people who live with mental…

Mental health, social entrepreneurship and inequality

Jul 21, 2020

A black board with white writing reading “At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decisions”

Jul 21, 2020

What will it take to get digital tools into regular use in mental health services, and what could…

The answer is simple. Do better research and research the right things. But how?

Nov 27, 2019

What will it take to get digital tools into regular use in mental health services, and what could…

Nov 27, 2019

Mark Brown

Mark Brown

Mark Brown edited One in Four, mental health mag 2007–14. Does mental health/tech stuff for cash (or not). Writes for money. Loves speaking. Get in touch

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