Fighting the good mental fight

Abstract

Mental Fight is an epic poem first published five years ago to celebrate the dawn of the third millennium. Its author, Ben Okri, describes the poem as an anti‐spell for the 21st century, and prefaces it with William Blake's famous lines (Blake, 1976), subsequently immortalised in the hymn Jerusalem: ‘I will not cease from Mental Fight, nor shall the Sword sleep in my hand, ‘til we have built Jerusalem, in England's green and pleasant land.’ The poem's inspirational message has stimulated the emergence of Mental Fight Club, a user‐led group in London that describes itself as ‘a new creative force for good mental health in Southwark and beyond’.

Citation

Wheeler, S. (2005), "Fighting the good mental fight", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 7-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729200500012