Dan Warrender is lecturer in mental health nursing. In this episode he tells us about his motivations and thoughts on mental health services today

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Greetings to you, my lovely listener. Welcome to the walk a mile in my shoes podcast – over the next few weeks, months, years we’re going to try to emulate the loveliness of the coastal walk through a whole bunch of conversations with all kinds of folk,  where we’ll demonstrate that talking about mental ill health is a lot less painful than you think

For those of you who don’t me, I’m your host, Chris Young

In this episode, I speak with Dan Warrender, a mental health nursing lecturer at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University and mentalization therapist.

Amongst other things, we talk about what motivated him to choose his career in mental health nursing, the challenging issues surrounding care and control in psychiatric hospitals, some of his thoughts on the personality disorder label and the simple elegance of mentalization therapy.

You can find some his work here 'Mental health nursing: somewhere in between good and evil' and here 'Perspectives of crisis intervention for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder”: An integrative review' You'll find him on Twitter here @dan_warrender 

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Until the next time

Walk a Mile

Chris