28.7.13

Å hjelpe uten diagnose

Psykolog Rufus May, som selv har pasientbakgrunn, skrev i 2007 en artikkel i det britiske psykologtidsskriftet kalt "Working outside the diagnostic frame".

Rufus May. Skjermdump fra YouTube

23.7.13

Linnés psykiatriske klassifisering


Vid mitten av 1700-talet försökte Carl von Linné systematisera människans mentala sjukdomar. Filosofiska rummet fördjupar sig anteckningarna från Linnés föreläsningar, vilka ger en bild 1700-talets syn på människans psyke.

Podkast fra Sveriges Radio

Will Hall om selvmord

12.7.13

Robert Whitaker om nevroleptika

Journalist og forfatter Robert Whitaker holdt et foredrag for NAMI forrige måned. Se Powerpoint-presentasjonen av foredraget: The Case for Selective Use of Antipsychotics.

Skjermdump fra peersnet.org
Neste måned kommer han til Norge!

8.7.13

Rigmor Diseths doktoravhandling om tvang

Det har vakt oppmerksomhet at en 81 år gammel kvinne tok doktorgrad. Både NRKs Ekko og Dagsrevyen intervjuet doktorand Rigmor Diseth forrige måned.

Nå ligger avhandlingen hennes på nettet: Compulsory Mental Health Care in Norway: A Study of the Interface between the Law and Psychiatry.

4.7.13

Flo Bellamys reise

Two years ago I began the search to find who I was beneath all the labels and major tranquilisers. I was a revolving door psychiatric patient with a severe mental illness. Well, that’s what the system told me and I was fitting into that role well.

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Now, the voices are great friends and advisors. I would never want to get rid of them. I no longer identify with my previous role as a severely mentally ill psychiatric patient but a human being that is experiencing and surviving life in my own unique way.

Les Flo Bellamys bloggpost From psychiatric patient to human being: My journey in a nutshell.

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"A study published today in the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA Psychiatry reports that patients whose antipsychotic treatment was reduced or discontinued (DR) experienced a recovery rate twice that of patients maintained on antipsychotics (MT)."
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3.7.13

Høy forekomst av barndomstraumer hos psykosediagnostiserte

En undersøkelse av norske forskere ser på forekomsten av barndomstraumer hos personer som har fått diagnosene schizofreni eller affektiv lidelse.

"The main finding of the present study was that a high proportion (82%) of patients with a schizophrenia spectrum or affective disorder (including bipolar and major depression with psychotic features) had experienced trauma in childhood."

Les studien: High prevalence of childhood trauma in patients with schizophrenia spectrum and affective disorder