A Place of Safety?

Sonia talks to Vincenzo about how psychological support is seen in India and how it takes shape in the support offered to her students. We discuss similarities and differences with the UK.

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Vincenzo talks to Sam about the values that underpin sport nowadays. We discuss the implications of the current competitive culture for athletes and we question what it means for society to move in a direction where personal value is considered more and more an exclusive matter of good functioning and efficiency.

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On this podcast we have often said that the British vision of mental health care is not the only one in the world and we talked a lot about Democratic Psychiatry and the Basaglian movement. It is however not only Italy that has a different history from the UK; in France the "Institutional Psychotherapy" movement developed an analysis of illness and care that has many potential implications for mental health care and society at large. Susana is a researcher with knowledge in this field and joins Vincenzo on this episode.

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On this episode Vincenzo discusses why the fight to change things should happen within the system, what the obstacles to change are and how we could understand resistance by people in the system. To what extent do professionals see or not see that there are significant problems? and why...

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On this episode we meet Jane and Lucy, who work with people who hear voices with a different approach from statutory services. We discuss the perspective of their two projects, the difference from a purely medical understanding of voices and the challenges that this represents.

For contact details of the services we discuss, please read below:

[email protected]
voicecollective.co.uk
forum.voicecollective.co.uk
voicecollective.eventbrite.co.uk

@MiCPrisons
voicesunlocked.com
[email protected]

community group:
@TalkingSense_

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Matt and Vincenzo have a discussion on the concept of diagnosis in mental health. How does this concept determine our way of framing problems and how is this relevant?

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Dr Porsanidou talks to Vincenzo about our podcast's partner Asylum Magazine and her reasearch on reducing violence on the wards. We discuss how violence is thought of in the system and try to make sense of what she observed on the wards.

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After having described the functioning of the Trieste mental health system in the previous episodes, on this episode we talk about Franco Basaglia and the history of the Italian mental health system, a system without psychiatric hospitals.

NOTE: Maxwell Jones worked in a hospital called Dingleton, not Dingwall as we say.. Sorry for the mistake!

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After Vincenzo's visit to Trieste, Matt shares his views on that system and we move on to talk about coercive care more broadly. How do we create a system without coercion? Why is the current British system so persuasive to some workers?

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On this occasion Vincenzo is in Trieste, Italy, which has a system without psychiatric hospitals, to talk to Marilena and Arturo about their experience there. Both are service users and Arturo is also working for the system.

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