15.4 C
London, UK
Thursday, 11, September, 2025

Rehumanising our mental health systems: a discussion with Jaakko Seikkula on the Open dialogue...

Jaakko Seikkula, along with Markku Sutela, created the Open Dialogue approach to acute crises in Finland. Jaakko is a clinical psychologist, a researcher and...

“I will listen, I will believe, I will not label distress by any other...

  My life started with my mother trying to abort me. I was stubborn even then; I wouldn't go away.   On the day I was born...

Would you like fries with your diagnosis and drugs? 

I have worked in the mental (ill) health industry for several decades in various roles. I now work in an IAPT service, meaning Improving...

A Disorder For Everyone Festival – our highlights

This is part two of our highlights of the AD4E Festival 2022 a day of activism, inspiration, panels and talks about challenging the medical...

The Use of Restraint in Mental Health Units in England – The Manifestation of...

The BBC Panorama episode on 28th September, ‘Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk’ exposed some of the poor practices in an NHS Regional Secure inpatient...