Patient Safety: A Letter to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
From Hole Ousia/Peter Scott-Gordon: “Last week a piece appeared in the Guardian, fronted by Professor Carmine Pariante, a career-long paid opinion leader, claiming that new research...
What are we overlooking? Reviewing current and alternative treatments for psychosis
In Part 1, I looked at the longer-term inefficacy of ‘maintenance treatment’ with antipsychotics, and also at some ‘disappointing’ outcomes for ‘early intervention in psychosis’...
Living beyond labels: the example of a therapeutic community
I am a co-worker at Lothlorien Therapeutic Community in Scotland. Lothlorien provides a temporary home for people with mental health problems and the opportunity...
The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry
Inpatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses. Those trapped there due...
Psychiatric assessments impacted by gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, study finds
A new study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology finds that gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status affect the outcome of psychiatric assessments in Sweden. According...