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...
How lived experience has become collective resistance
Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Queer...
Reported abuse of residents at mental health hospital, Dublin
As reported in the Irish Times on August 13, 2026 the HSE has enhanced it's support and oversight structure, a formal support process after...
“Assault” and “Torture”: Patients recall the institutional violence of forced drugging
A new scoping review exposes the psychological trauma and institutional power dynamics behind forced drugging, highlighting the urgent call from survivors for alternatives
Anew article published in...