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...
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...
Open Dialogue: A road less travelled
Professional practice in mental health is changing. Service users are becoming more active in their own treatment.
Since 1984, the rise of the Service User...