Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2008) 14: 347-349. doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.005611
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‘Public psychiatry’: a challenge for the profession?

INVITED COMMENTARY ON... ‘PUBLIC PSYCHIATRY’

David Yeomans and Frances Drake

David Yeomans is a consultant psychiatrist with Leeds Partnerships Foundation Trust (Clarence House, Clarence Road, Leeds LS18 4LB, UK. Email: david.yeomans{at}leedspft.nhs.uk) and an honorary senior lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Leeds. He is also a trustee of a local Mind organisation. Frances Drake is a senior lecturer in the School of Geography, University of Leeds, where she researches issues at the interface of science and society.

Michael Smith’s article considering the present and future of ‘public psychiatry’ assumes the continued existence of psychiatry following a conversation with the public. But what if the public does not want psychiatry?


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