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How do we treat people, often against their will, under the Mental Health Act?

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, they consider detention under the mental health act, travelling to locked wards in Liverpool, hearing from former patients and clinicians, and asking if detention can ever be avoided.

If you need support with mental health or feelings of despair, a list of organisations that can help is available at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Action Line support:

Mental health & self-harm: /programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm
Suicide/Emotional distress: /programmes/articles/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg/information-and-support-suicide-emotional-distress

or you can call for free to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066.

Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode
Producer: Emma Close and Lucinda Borrell
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard

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28 minutes

Last on

Mon 14 Aug 2023 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Fri 27 Jan 2023 11:00
  • Mon 30 Jan 2023 21:00
  • Mon 14 Aug 2023 09:00
  • Mon 14 Aug 2023 21:30