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Conference to explore alternatives to coercive mental health care
The 18th annual Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) conference will take place at University College Cork November 12 and 13, bringing together speakers and participants to explore critical and alternative responses to human distress.
Finding...
Open Dialogue approach cuts psychiatric hospital use in major trial
A non-medical approach to mental health treatment – Open Dialogue – can reduce hospital admissions and improve satisfaction with care, new research has found.
The ODDESSI trial, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, involved 494 people...
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Conference to explore alternatives to coercive mental health care
The 18th annual Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) conference will take place at University College...
Film festival: “Rethinking Mental Health” takes places in Norway
Meet filmmakers from Norway and abroad who have all contributed to strong and touching productions...
Documentary challenging medical model of mental health treatment to screen in Ireland
A new documentary exploring the relationship between childhood trauma and mental health diagnoses is set...
Open Dialogue approach cuts psychiatric hospital use in major trial
A non-medical approach to mental health treatment – Open Dialogue – can reduce hospital admissions...
Psychiatry apologises for failing survivors of child sex abuse. What happens now?
The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a remarkable position paper, stating that people...
How lived experience has become collective resistance
Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability...
Reported abuse of residents at mental health hospital, Dublin
As reported in the Irish Times on August 13, 2026 the HSE has enhanced it's...
“Assault” and “Torture”: Patients recall the institutional violence of forced drugging
A new scoping review exposes the psychological trauma and institutional power dynamics behind forced drugging,...
In the Lindsay Clancy case, polypharmacy is on trial
In January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy from Duxbury, Massachusetts took the lives of her three...
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