Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A conversation with an Open Dialogue expert
Welcome to MIA Radio. Today, we are pleased to have as our guest Jaakko Seikkula. Jaakko is a psychologist who helped develop the Open...
Mental Health Reform: Criteria for involuntary treatment significantly expanded
Mental Health Reform is holding an event to discuss recent developments related to the Mental Health Bill 2024. The Bill has just passed through...
Mental health debate in Ireland is reinforcing old clichés to allow forced treatment
The current discussion on the reform of the Mental Health Act in Ireland is quite disappointing. Not because of its outcome (although that most...
Government must not be allowed to strip Mental Health Bill of human rights safeguards
Last-minute government amendments have resulted in a Mental Health Bill that now lacks crucial human rights safeguards in favour of a retrograde model of...
If forced treatment amounts to torture, how can it legally – and morally –...
Editor's note: Mad in Ireland editors Dr Líam Mac Gabhann and Jennifer Hough published an article in the Irish Examiner in response to the...