ABSTRACT
Retrospective introduction In 1990 I obtained a senior fellowship at King’s College, London to research the subject of community mental health promotion. This position had been established by the good offices of Russell Caplan of the Health Education Authority (HEA), and Ray Holland, a senior lecturer in the Management Centre at King’s College. The fellowship was part-time for a year, which I undertook alongside my work as a psychiatric social worker, thereby working with and in both mental health (wellbeing) and mental illness (psychiatry). At the end of the year I produced a report which, after some consideration and time, was rejected by the HEA. After some more time and with the help of Ray and Russell, the HEA released the copyright of the report; I undertook further research in my own time, and made it into a book which was published by Routledge in 1996.
