The Lancet Psychiatry – A New Vision for Mental Health

Open-door policy versus treatment-as-usual in urban psychiatric inpatient wards: a pragmatic, randomised controlled, non-inferiority trial in Norway

The abstract of this trial has been published in The Lancet Psychiatry: “Background Open-door policy is a recommended framework to reduce coercion in psychiatric wards. However, existing observational data might not fully capture potential increases in harm and use of coercion…
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Changing the topic does not change the facts

Author: Editorial 30th June 2023 0 Comments

This letter to The Lancet Psychiatry (journal) comes from Dr. Jonanathan Shedler. It begins: “In a Comment published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues 1 wrote that I encouraged psychotherapists to ignore new practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because…
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a coherent system

CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, counseling, counselling, Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Talking Therapies, The Lancet Psychiatry