Rethinking Care Through the 'Open Dialogue' Approach to Psychiatric Crisis

Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) is a relational and rights-based approach to psychiatric crisis care with growing global uptake. 

Supporters of the approach regularly characterize it as a more 'human' alternative to conventional mental health treatment.

In this seminar, we explore the resonance between 'human care' as conceptualised by people delivering and receiving POD and recent anthropological theorisations of caregiving among humans.

We ask how experiences of trying to implement POD in the UK’s National Health Service—in particular, moments when practitioners struggled achieve the ideal of human care in practice—might inform conversations at the intersection of moral anthropology and psychiatry.

The seminar series is funded by a grant from UKRI. SOAS launched its Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) this year as a centre that aims to foster collaborations between anthropology and mental health research and practice.

Registration

The event is free to attend, but external/non-SOAS visitor are required to register via the link at the top of this page.