Dr Jan Wallcraft, senior researcher at The Recovery In-Sight Social Enterprise, has spoken out and written about the need for an apology from mental health services for all the pain and torture inflicted upon people who have used services in the past to detrimental effect. She upholds the need for this apology to clear the air, in order for us all to build better mental health services together.

Click on the link to read the article in the February 2012 edition of Open MIND, by Dr Wallcraft and Debra Shulkes, editor of Advocacy Update, the human rights and cultural publication of the European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. The article explores similarities between the need for this apology and other apologies made in the past for Jewish Holocaust victims by the German leader and by the Pope for sexually abused children in the care of Irish clerics.   openmind-trip-feb-2012

Click on the link to read the article written by Tina Minkowitz in the same edition of Open MIND, exploring the right to remedy and reparation regarding forced psychiatric interventions.tina-on-uncrpd-openmind-feb-2012

Hundreds of people have now signed the TRIP (Truth and Reconciliation in Psychiatry) requesting an apology from mental health services. 

Click on the link to read this document and the growing list of signatories, and add your name to this list if you feel that an apology is needed from mental health services for mistreatments that have been made in the past so that a full and genuine partnership can commence between mental health professionals and people who use mental health services ..

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/truth_and_reconciliation_in_psychiatry/

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