March 2014

Culture, DSM, mental health, Open Dialogue, psychotherapy, talking treatment

Carina Håkansson – Healing Psychosis with the Open Dialogue Approach

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healing psychosis

Carina Hakansson speaks about the groundbreaking ‘Open Dialogue Approach’ to the in-patient treatment of psychosis in Sweden. [Click here to view the talk on YouTube]

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Artistic process, Culture, mental health, psychotherapy

The play that wants to change the way we treat mental illness

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lapland schitzophreniaCan theatre offer a cure for psychosis? It’s unlikely – and it would be unwise for any theatre-maker even to try. What theatre can do, though, is convey the experience of psychosis: the hallucinations and delusions – often terrifying, sometimes comical – that define reality for those with schizophrenia and related conditions. [Click here to read the rest of the article on the Guardian site.]

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