Hope everyone had a good lunch! Now we look at the lessons we can learn from the 'asylum era', chaired by @DianeGoslar, an expert by experience. We'll also hear from @PeterNaxos, @claire_hilton6 and Dr Allan Beveridge. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Change is desperately needed – such as the total dismantling of stigma – but we have evidence change can happen, says @DianeGoslar. One example of change is that Diane, a patient, is chairing this session. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 The first story comes from @PeterNaxos, who speaks of Henrietta, a patient in Kingston Asylum, in 1859. She found within herself a resolve she was never aware of, which enabled her to survive a situation which was totally at odds with anything she'd experienced before. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 "There is a very contemporary resonance in a mixed race women examining a situation with entrenched positions of power" @peternaxos suggests that the overall message is never to write-off or underestimate the strengths of patients, even in the midst of their suffering. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 There's a lot that may strike us today both as rather distant as well as being disturbingly present about Henrietta's story. She was a remarkable woman 'telling the truth from below'. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Now we have Dr Allan Beveridge talking about the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. Unlike English asylums, Scottish asylums had private and pauper patients in the same building. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Clouston's regime aimed to 'bring order to the disordered mind' - in his view, insanity represented a 'loss of control', explains Dr Beveridge at #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Patients would write a great deal, for many reasons (listed below). They'd wrote on whatever was available, even on toilet paper if that was all that was available. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Many patients felt they were misinformed about their admittance to the Asylum. Tricked, lied to - some were physically manhandled, explains Dr Beveridge at #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Some of the insight from the patients included below. Some reference Clouston's 'gospel of fatness', the belief that overfeeding patients would help them. #RCPsychIC
@DianeGoslar@PeterNaxos@claire_hilton6 Apologies for the technical issues that meant we missed @claire_hilton6's talk! We're now talking about the present day – how much do investigations really reflect the needs/wellbeing of patients? They've been criticised for only investigating what they want to. #RCPsychIC
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Join us now in the auditorium of Virtual Congress to see one of our last talks of the day: "How to work with homeless people" #RCPsychIC
The agenda on today's talk is "Making services work for homeless people" with Dr Philip Timms @philip_timms a Consultant psychiatrist at the National Psychosis Service #RCPsychIC
After that, we have "Trauma-focussed practice with homeless people" with Dr Peter Cockersell @petercockersell the Chief Executive at Community Housing and Therapy #RCPsychIC
Our final session of #RCPsychC virtual Congress we are talking about Religious Delusions and Hallucinations: Significance, meaning, and narrative with Dr Alison J Gray @revdraligray, Professor Christopher C.H. Cook @cchcook and Dr Angela Woods @literarti
In one of our final split session talks of #RCPsychIC 2021, we'll be hearing from @RachelUTG, @PsychMarwaha and @sameerjauhar, chaired by Professor Allan Young: Care of Adult Mental Ill-Health: Getting it right from the start.
So -we're nearly at the end of our first virtual #RCPsychIC - but there's one more set of split sessions to go! On this thread you can follow the 57th split session of this amazing event, which is about Dual Diagnosis from the public, clinical + academic perspective.
Our first speaker is Caroline Turiff, who has been diagnosed with a range of conditions inc OCD and PTSD, and is an award winning investigative broadcast journalist. #RCPsychIC
I've read 70% of people with drug dependency who have a dual diagnosis so it is the norm for them, she says. #RCPsychIC
We have a couple more sessions to go, so tune into our session: Digital Psychiatry and the service user experience in a pandemic with Dr. Cyrus Abbasian @abbasian, Dr. Mariana Pinto da Costa (from @QMUL) & Millie Smith @milliesmith1979#RCPsychIC
Dr. Cyrus Abbasian @abbasian will be discussing first
Telepsychiatry in the UK: how digital tech transformed mental health provision
We're moving into the 5th industrial revolution. We are in Internet age soon to become cyber.