This article considers the development of a mental health policy from the Socialist Health Association between 1986 and 1988. The discussion docu ment at the centre of this policy development (Goodbey To All That?) is summarised and its reception in the Socialist Health Association ans else where reported. The difficulties in developing the policy, and the range of responses to it from different sections of the labour movement, are then dis cussed in an attempt to clarify the tensions which continue to exist around mental healt services in Britain in the late 1980s.
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