Ted Curtis born
February/March 1983 First edition of Open Mind, the
replacement for
Mind Out.
9.5.1983 Royal Assent to the
1983 Mental Health Act (England and Wales)
8.9.1983 Peter Sedgwick found dead near his home in Shipley, York
September 1983 - November 1985
Mental Distress in Old Age (Hackney)
September 1983, Peter Campbell moved to Cricklewood and became
involved in Camden Mind as a "volunteer" almost at once.
David Hill was not the
director at Mind in
Camden at that time.
David Hill made a promotional video called "Psychiatric Oppression" to try
to interest
Channel 4 in doing a programme. The VHS video cassette begins
with quote in text by Dr David Hill [Black and White], the rest is in
colour. The contributors include Eric Irwin, Frank Bangay, Peter Ross,
Steven Ticktin, Peter Campbell, Lary Gostin, Dee Kraiij, Mary Barnes,
Michael Meacher, Joe Bioder and R.D. Laing. (See
Glasgow University catalogue)
"The material for the psychiatric oppression video was shot
over a period of time (after Autumn 1983 as my bit was shot in my flat in
Cricklewood) and was
preparatory to
We're Not Mad We're Angry, but when it was actually edited
together into the video I am not quite sure" (Peter Campbell)
November? 1983 Annual Conference of Mind. Members of Glasgow
Link Clubs attended and were somewhat amazed
and angry that none of the presentations, seminars or workshops were
presented by patients. They made
their own presentation in 1984.
1984
Summer 1984
Hackney Mental Health Action Group formed
August 1984 Women and Mental Health group meeting in Hackney
September 1984
Mind Annual Conference, Royal Festival Hall,
London:
Possibly the first
with a user presentation (By members of
Glasgow Link clubs)
26.9.1984 The Guardian: "'The agony of tranquillity': Jim
Read and Kath Arnold, who both once took tranquillisers and now run groups
for users, cite Tamara's case to show the pitfalls of withdrawal and how to
cope with them". - See -
1.11.1984 -
28.1.1985 -
3.7.1985 -
16.7.1985 -
October/November1985 -
8.1.1988 -
October/November 1988
1.11.1984 Community Care "Not so tranquil" by Kath Arnold and
Jim Read. It ends: "The Government recently announced life
sentences for heroin pushers. What is to be done about the entirely legal,
highly profitable and even more destructive trade in tranquillisers?"
end of 1984 Conference in
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on plans to close the mental
hospitals. It "became apparent" that an open, democratic, forum for debate
about all mental health issues was needed and, out of this, the magazine
Asylum was conceived