Taking the Mental Health out of Capitalism

It is encouraging to find and be able to combine the worlds of high finance and mental health. On the one hand the FT Weekend featured "Justice For All?".

On the other hand there is an established campaign and body (an Institute no less)  for people living with mental health issues and the vulnerability to debt and poverty that can follow.

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Money & Mental Health Policy Institute

"Raised by a single parent on an East Midlands council estate, Manson encountered the law early in life: her father was in prison and, when she was 10, her mother, a teacher, was charged with a criminal offence and held in custody before being acquitted at trial. The struggle today, she says, is trying to get the public to recognise that lawyers like her provide a public service. "We are lawyers but we are also social workers, we're counsellors, we are sometimes mental health practitioners bringing to the court's attention an individual who has perhaps gone undiagnosed for years," she says. "You are the only person, especially when you are defending, that is standing between  them potentially going to prison or not." p.18.

Croft, J., Thompson, B. (2018) Justice for all? FT Weekend Magazine, September 29/30, pp.12-19.