May
04
2011

What Aristotle can teach us about personality disorder

Dr Hanna Pickard, Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and All Souls College gave a thought provoking lecture at the 11th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder exploring why we should turn to Aristotle to better understand personality disorder. We [...]

Feb
10
2011

Social psychiatry and social policy for the 21st century: new concepts for new needs – the ‘Enabling Environments’ initiative

A ‘psychologically informed environment’, or PIE, is the first of many new concepts that have spun off from the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Enabling Environments (EE) initiative. Based on the early developments in the therapeutic community movement, and adapting these values and principle to the 21st century world of community mental health, the EE initiative [...]

Dec
20
2010

No room at the Inn? Ever thought of a Yurt?

The new community personality disorder project in Slough has no room at the Inn. Wexham Park Hospital is now so crowded, no new space can be found for the psychotherapy group in the new intensive treatment programme. But undeterred, the group has bought the largest Yurt on the market, which arrived from Granada, Spain in [...]

Jun
08
2010

Arts and wellbeing evaluation event

Emergence and Tate Modern are hosting this event to begin to explore how to demonstrate the immense value of the work that we do.

Oct
24
2008

Foresight project on mental capital and wellbeing

The aim of the Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing has been to advise the Government on how to achieve the best possible mental development and mental wellbeing for everyone in the UK in the future.