Rethinking mental health in Ireland: Why not a Trieste-style approach?
Mental health services in Ireland, like many parts of the world, are often criticised for beingoverly medicalised, underfunded, and detached from the communities they...
Making sense of ‘word salad’ and hearing voices
The easiest way to shut voices up is reconciliation, like if a voice is screaming at you try and trace back what you did...
Offering young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives
Removal of diagnostic labels
We, as practitioners, like to imagine a world where diagnostic labels of “disorder” are no longer required. We feel that such...
The price of breaking the silence of abuse: dignity, justice and recovery
We live in a culture of silence, and this is something that affects many of us from childhood. The struggle to end this silence...
What does the social model of disability have to do with emotional and mental...
Language and Framing: talking about what we mean when we talk about “disability”
The language we use is influenced by what we know (or think...