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SANEnews
SANEnews is SANE's newsletter, issued to supporters and donors.
You can obtain back-copies by calling Sara Zmertych on 020 7422 5561 or by sending an email to info@sane.org.uk.
Summer 2010/Spring 2011
- SANE's vision and values
- Shattered lives: homicides and suicides: 'black spots' in community care as preventable deaths continue
- Knowledge heals: research news and therapies in practise
- Why? A new focus on suicide prevention
- Volunteers on the frontline: stories from SANE's stalwarts
- Funding the future: finding and focusing the finances
- Community outreach: making a difference in the City of London and Hackney in the East End
- Back to Bedlam: fascinating facts about the world's oldest psychiatric hospital
- Have we got news for you: a message from Private Eye editor Ian Hislop
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Autumn 2008/Spring 2009
- Raising Awareness: SANE in the news
- East Meets West in The Prince of Wales International Centre for SANE Research
- The Paradox of Self-harm: Our new research and interactive study
- Psychotherapy: What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
- SANE Services: An SOS of SANE Services
- Fundraising: Inspiring stories from some of our supporters
- Appeal: Join Alastair Campbell by donating to SANE
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Spring 2007
- The new Mental Health Bill – SANE lobbies for compassion to match coercion
- SANE investigates the worrying allure of pro-eating disorder websites
- Writer, Tabitha Suzuma, tells us how a call to SANEline turned her life around
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Issue 4
- Health professionals back SANEline
- Do chimpanzees have thought disorder?
- What's going on with the new anti-depressants?
Issue 3
- Government Boost for SANEline
- Research Centre - a flagship of hope
- Living on the edge of life itself
Issue 2
- Happy 10th Birthday, SANEline!
- Help at the end of the line...
- A Beautiful Mind
Issue 1
- Shaping the Future
- Unsung Heroes
- My Journey with Schizophrenia
Issue 11
- "Community Care Has Failed" - what Frank Dobson told parliament
- The Boy They Sent Out to Kill - the story of Christopher Moffat as told by his parents
- Suicide in Schizophrenia - Professor Robert Kerwin reports on a new study into the prevention of suicide
Issue 10
- Does the Road Wind Uphill All The Way? - can New Labour make a difference to mental healthcare?
- Failures That Sealed the Fate of Two Young Men - the tragic case of Christopher Edwards and Richard Linford
- Schizophrenia The Price of Language? - Sir John Maddox reports on the growing interest in linguistics and brain anatomy
Issue 9
- Expectations - SANE campaigns to change mental health law
- Echoing Blunders - Richard Lingham, former Director of Social Services in Cornwall, reviews the failures in the current mental healthcare system
- New Drugs: New Problems - can we deny new psychotic treatments based on cost?
Issue 8
- Balancing the Rights of Sufferers, Carers and the Public - SANE calls for the review of the Mental Health Act
- Melancholy Star - Professor Kay Jamison reveals her own ordeal with manic depression
- Spectrum of Psychosis - Dr Tim Crow reveals the blurred lines that make up the family of psychotic illnesses
Issue 7
- Emma's Tragedy Must Not be Allowed to Happen Again - the sad story of a woman who killed her child after the mental health services failed her
- Great News from Venice - a report from the 8th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Issue 6
- POWIC - the site for The Prince of Wales International Centre is chosen
- Taking the Medicine - a review of antipsychotic depot injections
- Leap for Joy - SANEline goes national with a new 'local rate' number
Issue 5
- Cash Boost for SANE's Research Centre - Matti Egon, daughter of Greek shipping millionaire donates a further US$1 million
- Three Experiences of Madness - three sufferers of psychotic illnesses tell their stories
- Images Inside the Skull - Dr Shon Lewis of Charing Cross Hospital describes new technologies in brain scanning
Issue 4
- A lady Still For Turning - was Virginia Bottomley right about 'Care in the Community'?
- Barmy Days - the work of an artist with schizophrenia hangs in the National Portrait Gallery
- Prince of Wales Research Centre Ready to Take Off - SANE chooses Dr Tim Crow to head its new Centre
Issue 3
- The Prince Drops By - HRH The Prince of Wales drops in on a midnight shift at SANEline
- The Sad, Sad Tales They Tell - a look at SANEline volunteers in action
- SANE Selects City of Dreaming Spires - SANE chooses Oxford as the city to house Research Centre
Issue 2
- SANEline Launched - SANE's unique helpline goes 'live'
- Journey through Madness - an amazing journey portrayed in Bryan Charnley's paintings
- Walk the World for Schizophrenia - the last and biggest-ever event of its kind
- Tell Me I'm Here - a review of Anne Deveson's new book
Issue 1
- SANE's Royal Appeal - King of Saudi Arabia pledges £1.75 million
- Research Special - Plans for The Prince of Wales Research Centre
- Prison is not the Answer - a look at the scandal of imprisoning men and women with mental illnesses