A Place of Safety?

Harry Dyson from McPin joins Vincenzo to discuss the current challenges of activism and change in the UK landscape. How does the implementation of 24/7 neighbourhood centres, based on Trieste's services, change the way Basaglian activism should approach the problems of our mental health system? What is the relation between building something new and the destruction of what was there before?

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In this episode Vincenzo looks into the way a mental health system based on theoretically flawed rules about safety affects an overarching system of rules which exist to make people accountable for what they do. This creates significant dilemmas for any Basaglian.

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In this episode, I discuss the new dilemmas I'm facing as the so called "Trieste model" increases its visibility across the UK. What should we do about activists who support the approach on paper, but end up advocating for its opposite in practice?
On top of this, I also talk about the abolition of the personality disorder label, particularly in relation to borderline personality disorder.

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Michael joins Vincenzo to talk about his experience of mental health services in Scotland, over time. We discuss how services, by understanding suffering as a risk, end up caring mostly about dangerousness. This means that those in crisis are often met with a repressive approach, and those who are not considered dangerous are often met with a neglectful approach.

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Sara London joins Vincenzo to disucuss her upcoming book: "The Performance Therapist and Authentic Therapeutic Identity: Coming Into Being".
We discuss why it's important in the current context, with psychotherapists having to measure themselves with a role that involves much more than just technical knowledge. We also discuss how the concepts of art and science are intertwined.
Read the book! And feel free to subscribe at the link below:

https://saralondon.substack.com/

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Dr Micol Ascoli and I meet again to discuss the principles and history behind "law 180" and the Italian mental health reform, as well as its content and how it works. We discuss how it's different from UK legislation and what other systems could learn from it. Vincenzo has already introduced this topic in episode 10, so that episode is a good introduction to this one. On this occasion, Micol offers an important perspective on this, as a Psychiatrist who has knowledge of both the British and Italian mental health systems.

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British and Italian Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Micol Ascoli joins Vincenzo to talk about her experience of working in Uk mental health services, and about how we both experienced moving from a Basaglian background and system in Italy to the UK context. This conversation happens in the context of a range of mental health care scandals which have been recently in the news in the Uk. Bureaucracy is an interesting lens through which the crisis, and the system's response to it, can be understood.

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Jerome joins Vincenzo to talk about his interest in ways of organising the economy that are based on cooperation. During his studies, Jerome became unsatisfied with traditional economic structures and interested in alternatives. Italian social co-operatives were a very interesting example to Jerome and this brought him to learn about Basaglia's interest in using them to build alternative system to the asylum in the community.

Take a look at Jerome's website:

econ.coop

For further information, see the page below:

https://linktr.ee/jerome.warren

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Sydney Conroy, Phd student at Cambridge University, joins me to discuss how hard science, the medical model and the system's expectations affect practicing play therapy with children. We also discuss differences between her experience of the US and how the system works in the UK, and much more!

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On this episode I speak to Robert, who is on his last year of training as a Psychiatrist. It's the first time that someone with a Psychiatry background comes on the podcast, so don't miss it! We discuss a number of topics including science, the gap between theory and practice, Open Dialogue and Insulin Coma Therapy.

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