Behavioral Health Resources history

1970: Department of Health and Social Security Annual Report 1970, Cmnd 4714.

Wing J.K., ‘Laing and Goffman: Self and Others’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 118 (1971), 360–361. [Google Scholar]

Thomas Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (New York: Harper & Row, 1974) and 34 other books on similar themes.

Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, Cmnd 6244 (London: HMSO, 1975).

M. Roth, ‘Schizophrenia and the Theories of Thomas Szasz’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 129 (1976), 323 & 325, responding to Szasz, Schizophrenia: The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1976).

Witnesses argued that a renewed emphasis on control and confinement was a bad policy and that it grew from a political reaction to scandal: specifically, homicides by psychiatric outpatients, such as the killing of Jonathan Zito by Christopher Clunis in 1992.

Department of Health, The Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide (London: HMSO, 2001).

Huxley Peter and Thornicroft Graham, ‘Social Inclusion, Social Quality and Mental Illness’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 182 (2003), 289–290. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Burns Tom, Community Mental Health Teams: A Guide to Current Practices (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). [Google Scholar]

In 2006 the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme was introduced with the explicit rationale of reducing the economic burden to the country of mild to moderate mental illness.

Gavin Thompson, NHS Expenditure in England (London: House of Commons Library, 2009), SN/SG/724, 7.

Hugh Freeman, Transcript, 17 December 2010, 9.

Hugh Freeman, Transcript, 31 January 2011, 17.