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Inpatient Psychiatry, Power, and Safety
This page brings together long-form reflections on inpatient psychiatry, focusing on how power, safety, and care are experienced from the patient side. The emphasis is on description and interpretation rather than institutional guidance or clinical instruction.
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This page overlaps with broader reflections on psychosis, but focuses specifically on institutional power and safety.
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- Paternalism in Inpatient Psychiatry
- Control and Restraint: A Patient’s Perspective
- PRN Medication on the Ward
- What Taking Antipsychotics Is Like
- What De-Escalation Looks Like From a Patient’s Perspective
- On Risk Assessment in Psychiatry
- Confidentiality in NHS Mental Health
- On NHS Mental Health: What Changed