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Challenging ideas in mental health
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Acknowledgements

This free course is based on materials from the Open University course K272 Challenging ideas in mental health which is no longer available. It was updated in May 2021.

The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence.

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Text

Reading 1: Perkins, R. (1999) ‘Madness, distress and the language of inclusion, Openmind, Vol 98, Jul/Aug 1999, © 1999 Mind (National Association for Mental Health).

Reading 2: Rose, D (2001) ‘Terms of engagement’, Openmind, Vol.108, Mar/Apr 2001. pp. 16–17 © 2001 Mind (National Association for Mental Health).

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Figure 1: Vitezslav Vylicil/Getty Images

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Figure 4: artist Kingsley Nebechi, courtesy BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkhpf4j

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Figure 10 ‘Let me eat my peas’: Mellaril advertisement from American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 117 (1960-61), pp. xii–xiii;

Figure 11: freestocks.org for Pexels.com

Figure 12: https://polypath.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/warley-hospital/

Figure 13: Valium advertisement from American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 121 (1965), pp. xxii–xiii;

Figure 14: Valium advertisement from Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 22 (1970), p. 481;

Figure 15: Prozac advertisement from Self, March 1998, p. 19.

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Video 1: © BBC

The extracts are taken from the course K272 Challenging ideas in mental health Copyright © 2004 The Open University.

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