Jaakko Seikkula – A New Vision for Mental Health

Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by Jaakko Seikkula and Tom Erik Arnkil. The publishers say: “This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: ‘Open Dialogues’ – developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations – and ‘Anticipation Dialogues’ – used in…
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a coherent system

Anticipation Dialogues, books, Jaakko Seikkula, Open Dialogue, psycho-social work, system thinking, Tom Erik Arnkil

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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collaborative practice

Finland, Jaakko Seikkula, Open Dialogue, psychosis, Talking Therapies

Some interesting quotations (2)

Author: Editorial 8th November 2019 4 Comments

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “… there’s not a lot to master in medications. It’s like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ where you had Hal the supercomputer juxtaposed with the ape with the bone. I…
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Key posts

Carl Jung, David Healy, Donald Levin, Education, Jaakko Seikkula, Lucy Johnstone, Martin Harrow, Michael Posternak, Peter Tyrer, quotations, quotes

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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collaborative practice

Daniel Mackler, Finland, first episode psychosis, Jaakko Seikkula, Kari Valtanen, meaning, meaning-making, Open Dialogue, psychosis, schizophrenia, video