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?: Detention

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Is the system for detention in psychiatric care working?

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. 

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Mental health & self-harm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health-self-harm
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Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode
Producer: Emma Close and Lucinda Borrell 
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard

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