Beyond control: Why compassion, not coercion, is the path to healing suffering
Compassion is not just a moral imperative—it is a neurobiological necessity for healing and well-being. Unlike coercion, which activates the body's defensive systems and...
Social Farming: Connecting with land, with community and with history
Welcome to the latest Mad In Ireland Fields of Healing podcast episode. It seems fitting that as we move into the time of Imbolg...
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...
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...
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...