Community psychiatry in unusual and remote settings

Junior doctor psychiatry placements in hospital and community settings: a phenomenological study

OBJECTIVES The proportion of junior doctors required to complete psychiatry placements in the UK has increased, due in part to vacant training posts and psychiatry career workforce shortages, as can be seen across the world. The aim of this study was to understand the lived experience of a Foundation Year 1 junior doctor psychiatry placement and to understand how job components influence attitu...

Psychiatry and the Community, II

In October 1951, we were again approached by the University of Glasgow Extra-mural Education Committee to organise another course of Mental Health lectures. Although it was felt that this would not be very successful, we were persuaded to organise one on a less ambitious scale with a syllabus designed to meet the needs of a small body of advanced students. As in the previous Course the writer a...

History of Community Psychiatry

Since antiquity, mental illnesses have proven challenging for individuals suffering with them, for families who wish to support them, and for communities in which they live. Evolution in the development of community services and supports has been predicated on the understanding or interpretation of mental illness, aided by acceptance and innovation, but often anchored in ignorance, stigma, and ...

Highs and lows of community psychiatry

In a perceptive article written 17 years ago, Sumathipala & Hanwella described what they called a spiral of community care. This was derived from evidence over a long time period that society alternates between embracing community psychiatry as an inclusive and positive way of treating the mentally ill, and an exclusive psychiatry at other times, when those with mental illness are perceived as ...

Psychiatry and the Community. Part I