Coercion in psychiatric wards tied to worse recovery, study finds
Coercive measures remain routine in psychiatric hospitals, yet new evidence suggests they do far more harm than good. A longitudinal study of 111 inpatients...
Call for suicide-specific, evidence-informed care in National Suicide Reduction Policy
The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI), the learned and professional body for psychology and psychologists in the Republic of Ireland, has submitted a comprehensive...
Hearing Voices Network Ireland celebrates 10 years
Hearing Voices Network Ireland celebrated its 10th anniversary on 17 April 2025,
having had its launch on 17 April 2015 in Trinity College Dublin.
Since that...
“Power is vested in one profession when in fact mental health is a messy...
I was delighted to speak with Dr Pat Bracken and Dr Charles O'Mahony on the Irish Centre for Human Rights podcast. We covered a...
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...