I am disappointed in reading such scashing scark in the book Bella Jackson (A Washed Attack at NHS Psyctiatry, 30 June). It was a hard reading, and yet I thought Jackson wrote about his experiences with compassion for patients and staff unintentionally caught in the wrong service.
I am a doctor, with experience as a psychiatric patient and as a senior “staff staff grade” doctor in a sharp psychiatric ward. My memoirUnfinished mind: The story of a trauma doctor, liberty and healing, confirms Jackson’s claims that the abuses occur in these areas. More likely to reject the model centered by biomedical psychiatry with no attention to circumstances and difficulties before they meet patients. As a result, my own early trauma was not taken for more than 20 years, while I was subjected to more harmful interventions, including electroconvulevules therapy and even a cingulotomy. It’s just from leaving the psychiatry I’ve got fixed.
Jackson’s book is a reminder that despite the best intentions, many patients fail to take the help they need in a basic psychiatric system.
Dr Cathy Weld
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
I am writing to enjoy Dr. Raquel Clarke for his excellent rebuttal to attack Bella Jackson in the failures of modern psychiatry. I work as head of mental health law for a large NHS Trust for 35 years, and as a constant guest of mental health wards, with full agreement that Jackson’s views are in my experience. I’m finally in a safe, forensic health ward just a few days ago – with incredible patients.
All the staff I encounter is not only one person, but kind, merciful and cautious. I also work with the rules where I visited many hospitals and almost no exceptions experienced by the same. Our nurses in mental health and psychiatrists, as well as many others, lost from their communication with the same values.
I’m far away from the left, and acknowledged to have a small minority of individuals who failed to follow the same amounts in the core. It has been over decades in the interactions in which psychiatrists, nurses and others have been challenged by a scale that can be impossible to cope, but they rise to many professional behavioral codes.
Kevin Towers
Health Health Health and Data Protection Officer, West London NHS Trust
I am writing in response to Rachel Clarke’s review, especially the suggestion that the memoir is “Scarermoning”. I am a psychological psychological consultant with more than 20 years of NHS experience in many London trusts. I train people, including ward staff and crisis services, working effectively with personality disorder. Similar stories of Bella Jackson’s reyles are reported to me and friends regularly. I do not doubt the validity of Jackson’s complaint, nor the NHS Mental Health is in a great mood; It is interesting that Clarke does, gives his claim to a relatively scan experience of mental health.
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