Mad in America
MARCH 25, 2025
Key features of the Trieste model include: No Closed Psychiatric Hospitals: Traditional psychiatric hospitals were dismantled, replaced with open-door community mental health centres (CMHCs) operating 24/7. While Irelands Mental Health Act (2001) has undergone review, it still falls short in fully safeguarding rights.
Mad in America
APRIL 28, 2025
At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve. But within a year of publication, I was back in hospital, relapsed apparently. Cathy: In 2007, I was discharged from the six-month hospital admission for relapse on a cocktail of four different drugs. I thought I had recovered. Jo: Tell me about how it changed.
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Real Psychiatry
JULY 27, 2025
The study cohort was 1,786,433 Danish residents between the ages of 15-42 living in Denmark at some point during the ten year between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2021. Association of homelessness and specific violent offences leading to conviction in men (10,623,486 person-years), 2001-2021.
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
D uring my first psychiatric hospitalization in 1998, I was strapped down, placed in 4-point restraints, and administered a painful catheter—apparently because I had peed on the floor during the course of my psychotic episode. Captivity By my count (with an assist from my mother) I’ve had 12 psychiatric hospitalizations in my life.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Between hospitalizations, I bounced between my biological family until I ultimately became a ward of the state at about age twelve. But in March 2001, things went sideways and I heard the growl of the beast, felt its shadow eclipsing me once again. No more hospitalizations, no more being a ward of the state? Wait, what?
Mad in America
OCTOBER 13, 2023
However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. In 2001, my life was already ensnared by worsening eating disorders, relentless depression, and self-inflicted wounds.
Mad in America
MAY 30, 2024
The introduction of the health enterprise model in 2001 gave economists and bureaucrats the mandate to override health professionals’ arguments from a cost/benefit perspective, which effectively transforms health personnel from professional service actors to gatekeepers for resources and rights.
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