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Psychiatry should not be in sole charge of youth mental health, says Psychological Society...
Sole reliance on one professional discipline is outdated and misaligned with evolving standards of best practice and accountability
The Psychological Society of Ireland has said that it does support an outdated claim that the College...
PSI-STAR Project with Royal College of Surgeons Ireland – hearing voices/psychosis
I’m a person labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ (of thirty years), and have recovered to a good
extent,...
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...
“Power is vested in one profession when in fact mental health is a messy territory”
I was delighted to speak with Dr Pat Bracken and Dr Charles O'Mahony on the...
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...
Mad in Ireland interview: We “criticise existing approaches to mental health care and highlight positive changes”
Although Jennifer Hough’s older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen,...
Offering young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives
Removal of diagnostic labels
We, as practitioners, like to imagine a world where diagnostic labels of...
PODCASTS
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...
World Voices Congress 2024 – Mark Mc Collum and Owen Ó Tuama in conversation
The World Voices Congress was held this year in Copenhagen in late September. The Congress...
A conversation with Thom Stewart about peer support.
This podcast is with Thom Stewart. We met in Dublin city...
Language giving voice to identity and expressing our soul
If language shapes our world, then in Ireland our world is shaped by and through the lens of colonialism. And it is here we will first explore that impact and reality, before thankfully exploring where and how our own language can be a field of healing.
Music, the rhythm of the soul
Welcome once again to Mad in Irelands podcast series ‘Fields of Healing’. This time around...
Shamanism and the Celtic shaman path towards healing
We are delighted to be presenting this third episode of Fields of Healing where we...