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...
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...
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 sexually abused in childhood have been failed by mental...
Her and the same
I. Her
I don’t recognise her
But I know who she is
And I know what she did
I don’t recognise her
But I feel what she felt
And I...
Nobody told me to do this: What it means to be a dissident psychiatrist
Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient.
I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit...