Tuke Foundation

The Tuke Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit mental health education and advocacy group. Our mission is to improve the practice and delivery of mental health care through the exploration and dissemination of radical ideas and forward-thinking solutions! Despite the rapid growth of the mental health industry over the past three decades, the UK suffers higher levels of mental illness than ever before, with record levels of antidepressant and psychiatric drug use, and suicide rates that haven’t improved since the 1950’s. We believe that current approaches to mental health focus too much on short-sighted solutions such as diagnostic labelling, medication, and “self-help”, and not enough on broader considerations such as people’s personal history, family circumstances, community issues, employment and financial problems, and even philosophical issues such as spirituality, purpose and meaning.