The IMHCN library contains a wealth of information that can help us to understand and reflect on what is important in developing and sustaining a Whole Person, Whole Life, Whole Community, Whole System movement. We want to capture the latest and most relevant knowledge base from around the world and share this with each other. … Read more
The Art of Helpful Relationships with Professionals: A Meta-ethnography of the Perspective of Persons with Severe Mental Illness by Amanda Ljungberg, Anne Denhov, Alain Topor Abstract Relationships with professionals have been shown to be helpful to persons with severe mental illness (SMI) in relation to a variety of services. In this article, we aimed to synthesize the … Read more
The aim of this study co-authored by IMHCN member, Alain Topor, was to examine the relation between severe mental illness, economic status, and social relations. A financial contribution per month was granted to 100 individuals with severe mental illnesses for a 9-month period. Assessments of the subjects were made before the start of the intervention … Read more
The IMHCN with partners in India, Brazil, Malaysia, Serbia, Hungary, Palestine, Azerbaijan, The Gambia, Canada, Italy and the UK have developed the International Psychiatric Hospital in Transition Alliance, this was founded at the 2015 Franco and Franca Basaglia International School held in Trieste. This Alliance builds on the declaration made in Trieste in 2011 at … Read more
This substantive report on the work of the Mental Health Department of Trieste, Italy was written by Lister, a mental health service organisation from Utrecht, Netherlands, as they say: “This is a view of the everyday practices in Trieste, with the good aspects of the system and also the imperfections. But it also has depth and … Read more
The four day meeting will consider the challenge of the open door, open discourse, open access in mental health care and services through practices of freedom. See the full programme here. The event is being organised by the Mental Health Department of Trieste in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and with the International … Read more
The first phase of the Trieste Recovery Learning community and Recovery House has now been completed. Over a six month period Paul Baker and Roberta Casadio from IMHCN worked with the Trieste Mental Health Department in developing a whole life recovery focussed project to enable six people and their families to develop their autonomy and … Read more
IMHCN Associates Jorn Eriksen, Daniela Speh and Paul Baker undertook a workshop tour of Brazil taking in Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Brasilia from the 23rd September to 5th October 2015. Rio de Janeiro The two day Forum in Rio was organised and hosted by CENAT (Centro Educacional Novas Abordagens Terapêuticas) and IPUB … Read more
Report on the Final Action Learning Set held over three days in Belgrade Themed: “Service User, Family Member and professional “Trialogue” This was the final Action Learning Set of the Project titled “Recovery within community – Supporting recovery of persons with mental disorders and their full inclusion in the community”. A collaboration between The International … Read more
“One year on” Recovery into Practice: A whole life – Whole Systems Approach National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthen 30th / 31st October 2014 Conference Evaluation by Arts4Wellbeing Delegates Responses Day 1. What did you see that you liked? Inspiring approach from Finnish professional – clients not to be spoken about until present The … Read more