Prince Harry shows how NHS psychiatric services could move on | Letters

While experts are right to congratulate Prince Harry (Harry praised for telling of ‘chaos’ over Diana’s death, 18 April), and call for more spending on mental health, there is an elephant in the room.Mental health services are dominated by an outdated, simplistic medical model of distress that is rather at odds with the prince’s views.While he makes the obvious link between painful life events and mental health difficulties, our services are still telling distressed peopl