Finland – A New Vision for Mental Health

HOPEnDialogue

Author: Editorial 24th November 2021 1 Comment

The organisers say : “The HOPEnDialogue study will map the centers practicing Open Dialogue worldwide, verify how closely they follow the Open Dialogue principles, and investigate the effectiveness of this approach in different contexts. The HOPEnDialogue study will map the centers…
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Finland, first episode psychosis, Open Dialogue, psychosis, Research

OPEN DIALOGUES: Increasing resources in severe crises

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2020 0 Comments

Here are a couple of extracts from a presentation by Prof. Jaakko Seikkula, developer in Finland of the ‘Open Dialogue’ approach to treating psychosis: “Challenges for treatment of psychotic problems – early notions: Clients become not heard – neither the patient…
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Finland, Jaakko Seikkula, Open Dialogue, psychosis, Talking Therapies

My Reflections on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project

Author: Editorial 1st July 2019 0 Comments

This article was created as a guest-post on Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, a blog-site run by Monica Cassani. The article stems from conversation she had with film-maker Daniel Mackler, the article’s author, who revealed that the psychiatric hospital he’d visited (when…
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Daniel Mackler, Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, Finland, Keropudas Hospital, Monica Cassani, Open Dialogue, psychiatry

Open Dialogue: an alternative Finnish approach to healing psychosis

Author: Editorial 18th April 2019 0 Comments

This 74-minute film – a 3 minute trailer is also available – looks at the Open Dialogue Project as developed in Finland by Prof. Jaakko Seikkula The film’s maker, Daniel Mackler, says this project is presently [as of 2010 when the film was…
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Daniel Mackler, Finland, first episode psychosis, Jaakko Seikkula, Kari Valtanen, meaning, meaning-making, Open Dialogue, psychosis, schizophrenia, video