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25. Jul 2023
Safety, trust, support, equality, empowerment
Psychiatry is a profession that needs to be the subject of ongoing dialogue, involving not only professionals but also observers and service users.
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The situation at the Ljubljana psychiatric clinic, which has triggered numerous allegations of abuse, has been exposed in the media not as a professional debate but rather as a political power struggle for power and financial resources between different groups within and outside the profession. Whatever the merits of the allegations, this unpleasant situation is nevertheless an opportunity to launch an urgent debate on the possibility of systematically and comprehensively introducing a trauma-informed approach.
Psychiatry, a field with various subspecialties, deals with a variety of mental disorders. The vast majority of psychiatry focuses on the management of conditions such as depression, anxiety, addiction, personality disorders, crisis states and psychosomatics. This diversity of fields of practice reflects the breadth and complexity of the expertise that psychiatry brings. There is also a smaller but very important part of psychiatry that deals with the most severe mental disorders, where patients in psychotic states lose touch with reality. This segment, called intensive psychiatry, is often under public scrutiny because it involves situations in which hospitalisation is carried out without the patient's consent.
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