http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/10/is-it-time-for-the-over-medicalisation-of-mental-health-to-recede/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/10/is-it-time-for-the-over-medicalisation-of-mental-health-to-recede/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:33:08 +0000 Tony Lobl http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29031 Pivotal legislation before parliament could free a swathe of “mental health” outcasts to serve as MPs, jurors and company directors. A private members bill from Tory MP Gavin Barwell seeks to roll back decades of discrimination against those who may have been diagnosed as mentally ill, yet are competent to play a normal role in “civil society”.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/10/is-it-time-for-the-over-medicalisation-of-mental-health-to-recede/feed/ 2