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Helen Spandler
Dr Helen Spandler is professor of mental health studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She is a qualitative researcher in mental health, critical social theory and policy and has completed numerous national and regional research projects. Her books include Distress or Disability?: Mental Health and the Politics of Disablement (2015); Beyond Fear and Control: Working with Young People Who Self-Harm (2007); Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond (2006); and Who’s Hurting Who? (1996). She is the managing editor of Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry.