Improving the lives of people affected by mental illness

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  What's new:

• Transamerica - Film Review 

• Depression: Die Fakten

• Information for people with learning disability and their carers 

• Visit our Book Review pages.
• 'Get well soon' - order our cards
  Podcasts:
• Internet addiction - Dr King-wa Fu discusses the topic with Dr Ovais Badat

We also have leaflets on the following topics:
 

• ACP 360 multi-source Assessment for Psychiatrists reaches over 3,000 enrolments

• September eNewsletter

• Launched: Portfolio Online (including assessments for WPBA)

• Meet the experts: Managing Obesity in Mental Health

• New: Summaries of the NHS White Paper: Equity and Excellence – Liberating the NHS (and related consultations) 
• New: MRCPsych Part I Holders  
• Joint guidance on the Employment of Consultant Psychiatrists
• Psychiatrists' Support Service 
• GMC Revalidation

• Surf the net and check your emails with broadband PCs in the Library

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  Press releases: 
• Young black women at increased risk of self-harm, study shows
• New social intervention to help Pakistani women with depression
• Young people with mental illness ‘face negative economic outcomes’
• People with severe depression ‘find it harder to judge facial expressions’
  Media coverage: 
• RCPsych president comments on public attitudes to health, the Observer
• The success of the Psychiatrists’ Support Service, BMJ Careers 

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• DEC Pakistan Floods appeal
• New on CPD online: Suicide in prisons 
• Fair Deal for mental health
• Mental health in primary care forum
• Community Treatment Orders in England and Wales - your views and experiences