Thinking Aloud

Rufus May is passionate about improving society’s approach to mental health. He works as a psychologist in Bradford’s District Care Trust’s Assertive Outreach team and Community Rehabilitation and Support Team (CRST). He is open about his own experience of receiving psychiatric treatment as an 18 year old and his subsequent recovery. In his spare time Rufus also runs self help groups and training events and does some media work. “I want to break down the myths and taboos about madness… What I want is more open dialogue about how we help people in distress. I would love this blog to be a place that stimulates debate and dialogue about our minds and how we best promote recovery.”

Recent posts

  • Coming back to our senses

    How do we come back to our senses? On Friday I listened to a good talk - organised by Sharing Voices - by Hakim Archuletta ( see website ) who was visiting from America. His talk was relevant to helping people who are emotionally traumatised but also related to how we all live our lives [...]

  • Of Giraffes and Jackals

    I am very interested in reconciliation processes because I think this is an important part of healing for both individuals and communities. Its also generally an important part of life because conflict is inevitable so finding good ways to deal with it is extermently valuable. Sitting down to talk with someone you [...]

  • Refreshing Attitudes

    I was listening to “On the ropes” yesterday driving to work. John Humpries was interviewing John Prescott. Its worth going to ‘listen again’ if you like passionate discussion and debate covering both the political and the personal. (Click here to listen to this episode, available for the next few days). It was like a [...]

  • Holistic Minds

    On Friday I am giving a talk about the ‘coming off’ medication process, I thought I’d write a sneak preview of the talk here. We (we being Evolving Minds) have just finished running a year long ‘coming off medication’ support group in Hebden Bridge. The group successfully supported a number of people to reduce their [...]

  • A Bitter Pill

    Critical feed-back can be like a biiter pill, difficult to swallow! A week ago my head was ringing with the different ways I had been described by journalists who had seen the film ‘The doctor who hears voices’. An acting friend recently told me “never read your reviews”.  Good advice, difficult to follow! O.K. We’ll [...]