This edition of Mental Health Nursing features a paper entitled ‘Non-violent resistance: towards a radically alternative mental health nursing practice’, contributed by Mark Batterham, Luke Cousins, Ramon Wilson and Andrew Mathers (see p13).
The paper references an article I contributed for this journal in 2015, entitled ‘Being a radical mental health nurse’, which focused on how to reclaim radicalism.
I have a broad clinical base and background, and so reading this new article posed an interesting and welcome challenge and question – how can we all approach the juxtapositioning of concepts like the various versions of radicalism in mental health with non-violent resistance in our work?