‘This feels more like spin-the-bottle than science’: my mission to find a proper diagnosis – and treatment – for my son’s psychosis
Open Dialogue
England’s mental health care lacks money, yes – but it also lacks compassion
“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
HOPEnDialogue
“I’ve Lived that Thing that We do with Families”: Understanding the Experiences of Practitioners’ Undertaking a Three-Year Open Dialogue UK Training Programme
This research study – co-authored by A. Wates, J. Allen, A. Cooke, and S. Holttum – has been published in the Community Mental Health Journal. The abstract says: “Open dialogue is a systemically-based approach to mental healthcare, originating from Finland. Growing numbers…
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Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)
Unconventional Views About Mental Health
“I am very concerned that senior, powerful, psychiatrists are trying to silence those who are vocal regarding psychotropic medications, and psychiatry’s ’medical model’. These issues can’t be ignored. Academic Psychiatry should acknowledge when new research raises serious issues (like withdrawal…
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OPEN DIALOGUES: Increasing resources in severe crises
Here are a couple of extracts from a presentation by Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, developer in Finland of the ‘Open Dialogue’ approach to treating psychosis: “Challenges for treatment of psychotic problems – early notions: Clients become not heard – neither the patient…
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My Reflections on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project
Open Dialogue: an alternative Finnish approach to healing psychosis
This 74-minute film – a 3 minute trailer is also available – looks at the Open Dialogue Project as developed in Finland by Prof. Jaakko Seikkula The film’s maker, Daniel Mackler, says this project is presently [as of 2010 when the film was…
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