Is Psychiatry Working?

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What do we know about the treatments for mental health disorders currently on offer?

As the numbers of people seeking treatment for mental health disorders rises globally, what do we know about the treatments on offer?

As the numbers of people seeking treatment for mental health disorders rises globally, what do we know about the treatments on offer? Where did they come from, how strong is the evidence that they work and what will the future of mental health care look like?

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Is Psychiatry Working?: Crisis

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Writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode discuss psychiatric crisis care with patients and clinicians.

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 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 first episode they look at how psychiatry responds to those in crisis.

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

Mental health & self-harm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm  
Suicide/Emotional distress: https://www.bbc.co.uk/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
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard

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