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As part of our information series marking Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month 2022, Dr Paul Matthews, Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist and Chair of the CPsychI Personality Disorders Special Interest Group, provides an overview of what we mean when we discuss this often-misunderstood diagnosis. While public awareness of mental illness keeps growing, and the stigma around […]
Psychiatry, Nature and the Climate Crisis Join RCPsych NI on Thursday 25th November 2021 as we explore psychiatry, nature and the climate crisis and the connectedness of mental and planetary health. “The crisis in the natural world is of paramount concern. We will focus on the challenges of the impending climate catastrophe and collapsing ecosystems […]
Below is a letter to the editor by Mary Cosgrave from the first print issue of the IJPM dedicated to COVID-19 and Mental Health. View the original on CambridgeCore here. View the entire virtual issue dedicated to COVID-19 and Mental Health here. Dear Editor, As we reach the mid-summer of 2020, it is usual […]
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland is delighted to announce its annual essay competition which is now open to submission from current Medical Students as well as those in their Intern Year. The essay competition is an initiative of the Trainee Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, which has been running annually since 2010 with great […]
Higher Specialist Trainee in Psychiatry, Dr Rosie Plunkett speaks to Sarina Bellissimo to tackle the stigma surrounding anti-depressant medication. The discussion covers when it might be appropriate to speak with a GP, the different types of anti-depressants that may be prescribed, and why stigma around these medications might exist. Read snippets from their discussion below, […]
Violence risk assessments are sometimes used to inform decisions around the involuntary admission of people to hospital. Yet the evidence for their use is at best unclear, say Gautam Gulati, Chair of the CPsychI Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, Colum P Dunne, and Brendan D Kelly. This blog post originally appeared in The BMJ Opinion. The […]