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Aug 30: Government repeats Labour promise to end mixed-sex mental health wards - Health Secretary Andrew Lansley (left) says failing trusts would be fined from next year.

August 30: Clinical psychologist 'deluded' for having patient relationship

Aug 2: Psychiatrists and psychologists could diagnose children with five new mental disorders - American Psychiatric Association proposes additional psychiatric conditions for DSM

July 22: Rate mental health services on recovery 'star', charity urges. - Rethink says it has piloted evidence-based measure which assesses how services's improve people’s recovery

EXCLUSIVE: July 7: Anti-psychotics likely to cause brain damage, new study claims - results challenge view that schizophrenia itself causes brain structural changes

May 14: Asylum life to be featured in BBC documentary - programme focuses on former High Royds hospital, (left), near Leeds

April 5: "Want user-led mental health services? We've done it for a decade - Adam James examines why Leeds Survivor-Led Crisis Service has made its mark in mental health history.

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March 15: Compulsory ECT is wrong - Psychiatry has a history of using damaging interventions, so it's time to end the magical faith in electroconvulsive therapy, argues psychiatrist Pat Bracken.

March 5: BBC documentary was 'anti-loony pornography' - service users attack broadcast on killings committed by people diagnosed with mental illness

Feb 22: Children on mental health wards at five-year high - figures released in response to parliamentary question from MP Natasha Engel, left

Feb 2: Charity admits failing to protect killed psychology graduate - Newcastle's Mental Health Matters broke health and safety law

Feb 2 : Ruby Wax to perform at private psychiatric unit - outpatients and staff are among audience for dates at Birmingham clinic

Jan 22: Psychiatric unit defends seclusion after complaint - Nottinghamshire NHS trust publicly states isolation used "as last resort" after patient kept in one room for past eight weeks.

Jan 22: Her own way - Judi Chamberlin's book On Our Own was held up as a rallying cry for the mental health service-user movement when it was published in 1977. Louise Pembroke remembers the American activist who died on January 16.

Jan 21: 'Many service user workers are still wobbly' - the recovery ideal in mental health has been lost and the NHS is taking advantage of compliant service users. It's time to get radical again says Marion Aslan, left. By Adam James

Jan 15: Meditation could "prevent thousands" relapsing with depression every year - claim made as charity promotes mindfulness therapy for NHS

Jan 15: "Allow people with mental health problems to be jurors" - campaigners step up fight after claiming government inaction

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Oct 26: Psychoanalysts threaten legal action against health regulator - lawyers for 1,500 Freudian therapists write to Health Professions Council with judicial review warning over “unlawful” failure to assess whether statutory regulation is necessary for psychoanalysts. Adam James reports.

Feature: Oct 1: Has Labour kept its promises on mental health? Ten year ago the government set itself targets to meet on mental health provision. Mental health tsar Louis Appleby, left, says they've been met. Others are not so sure. Report by Adam James

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Sept 25: We're failing the elderly over care - A psychosocial programme for dementia is as effective as drugs. But it's not available, so failing thousands of patients and their carers, says Joanne Knowles.

May 18: Zito Trust to close - objectives have been met, declares group which pushed for tighter controls over potentially violent psychiatric patients (Pictured: Jayne Zito)

May 11: Charity's rock of support - Phil Harvey (left) is a member of Coldplay, one of the most popular rock bands on the planet. He also is an aspiring psychologist and a volunteer for a mental health charity in London. In a rare interview Harvey talks exclusively to Adam James