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Mark Brown

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…

17 min readJul 20, 2023

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Mark Brown

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…

13 min readJan 30, 2023

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Mental health and the cost of living crisis

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Mark Brown

“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…

5 min readJun 20, 2022

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

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Mark Brown

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

…but the notices were lacking and the auditorium mostly empty

8 min readSep 30, 2021

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

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Mark Brown

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…

35 min readJun 8, 2021

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Mental health user-led activity as autonomous community action

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Mark Brown

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.

3 min readMay 24, 2021

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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…

10 min readApr 20, 2021

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What does the Mental Health Act White Paper mean?

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Mark Brown

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

6 min readJan 27, 2021

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

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

Mental health, social entrepreneurship and inequality

26 min readJul 21, 2020

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

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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?

13 min readNov 27, 2019

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

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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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