UCL & Mental Health Week 9 to 16 May

Mind,  the leading mental health charity, is running its 2009 Mental Health week from 9?16 May. This year, the charity is aiming to raise awareness on men's mental health problems by hosting media events and appealing for parliamentary action. At UCL, the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre will host a comedy night on 12 May in support of the campaign while academic and clinician Joanna Moncrieff (UCL Mental Health Services) has been shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year award for The Myth of the Chemical Cure. The annual award is presented to a work of fact or fiction that has contributed to a deeper understanding of mental health issues. The winner of the 2009 award will be announced at the Mind Awards ceremony on Thursday 14 May. Joanna Moncrieff, UCL Mental Health Services. 'In The Myth of the Chemical Cure , I set out to expose the mistaken idea that psychiatric drugs work by reversing chemical imbalances, or other biological abnormalities.
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