Tony Baldwinson writes:
This new book traces Greater Manchester’s radical mental health campaigning from 1960 to 2011. Survivors, activists and sympathetic workers challenged coercion and discrimination, creating alternatives based on rights, mutual support and control over care.
Examples include Manchester Mind, 42nd Street and the Hearing Voices movement. The book explores how institutional pressures weakened radical approaches and erased their history. For today’s campaigners, its message is clear: empowering services require shared decisions, attention to social injustice, and learning from earlier struggles.
The 160-page pdf version is free, Creative Commons.
