Rachel Gibbons
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I am a consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and group analyst. I have had leadership roles in patient safety and have been working on suicide for 16 years.
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Do come and join us if you are leader in healthcare anywhere in the world. There are 14 places in our Strategic Leadership Circle (with the Tavistock Institute) applications live....I am co-directing with Prof Michael Fischer ()
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I am really delighted (and hugely relieved) that the Royal College of Psychiatrists has published this guidance for all mental health organisations for the pastoral care of all mental health staff following the suicide of a patient…
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Please read this paper with care if you have been impacted by suicide…the aim is to contribute to the open discussion around this very painful loss… and to help those bereaved feel less responsible.
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I am delighted that my paper on mourning and mental illness (that took 10 years to write!!) has been chosen as the RCPsych article of the month....Do take a look if you haven't already... you might find it interesting 😊
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My second paper on suicide is published today. I really hope it will be helpful both to those bereaved and in reducing the persecution that pervades after a death...please let me know any thoughts and do read with care
@TheBJPsych
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Inaccurate suicide risk assessments could be putting lives at risk says RCPsych
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So pleased and rather shocked....that this paper on the role of loss and mourning in mental illness (that has taken 10 years to write) ...has been published in BJPsych-Advances....Do read and let me know what you think...
#psychia
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My third and final paper on suicide just published! This tries to get to the heart of the matter and look at the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic/psychological pathway to suicide. I am trying - as with the other two - to be as straightforward as I can with the hope that it is
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“Ashamed and alone”—healthcare staff need better support after a patient’s suicide
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This years Psychodynamic Psychiatry day at the RCPsych. Excellent so far. The Psychodynamics of Prescribing “a medication might be prescribed because either the patient or clinician has a feeling they might want to get rid of”. From Dr Dimitrios Chartonas.
@rcpsych
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Do take a look -the paper took 10 years to write- featured on the front of Advances in Psychiatric Treatment😊"The Mourning Process and Its Importance in Mental Illness" explores the deep links between grief & psychiatric illness.
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Very pleased that support for mental health staff following the death by suicide of a patient is in the new government suicide prevention strategy released today
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Do take a look at this editorial in the Bulletin. First draft by Steve Peirce.
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This is the first one.
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The feedback about this paper to help those bereaved by suicide (including clinicians) has been positive so far- so I am reposting more confidently…
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Wonderful Psychodynamic psychiatry day. David Minz ”the origin of psychiatrist is psychi and iatros in Greek, meaning doctor of the soul”.
@rcpsych
#medpsychday2023
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I am PR-ing this paper. ... Do take a look if you are interested in what mental illness really is. It is easy to read, hopefully interesting, and you will know after about 200 words if you want to continue to not......
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An alternative for anyone who might not have found the time yet to read my paper - A podcast with the RCPsych discussing the main points... do have a listen and let me know your thoughts
🎧 Listen to the podcast here:
✨RCPsych's Article of the Month is from
#BJPAdvances
and features an article by
@drrachelgibbons
exploring links between the mourning process and
#mentalillness
Access the blog 👉
Read the article 👉
#RCPsychAOM
#Psychiatry
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Delighted to have talked this morning, about mourning, at
#APAAM24
and thank you to a wonderful and engaged audience 😊
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Do come and join us. I am delighted that The Institute of Psychoanalysis' is going to hold an online event on the 15th June. I will be in discussion with David Bell and we will explore some of the ideas in the paper.
Click below. Hope to see you there!
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I would wholeheartedly recommend David’s lectures on psychoanalysis. They are brilliant. He is a deep analytic thinker, who can explain complex concepts in a thoroughly, engaging understandable and thought-provoking way. It is a wonderful opportunity Davi…
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This paper identifies clear patterns in the responses of the bereaved. the formation of delusional narratives that place them at the centre of blame for the death. These narratives impact well-being, increase the risk of mental illness and elevate suicidality.
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Have you had the experience of a patient perpetrated homicide? ....If so we have developed a new webpage at the RCPsych to help support you and provide resources that might help in what can be a very distressing time.
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After hearing many stories of deaths by suicide and of clinicians’ emotional responses to them, patterns or ‘truths’ started to appear. We became aware that what we were discovering about suicide did not correspond with what we were being told in the wider social environment.
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Over three years we have gathered together the leading contemporary clinicians in applied psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work. Anthony Bateman on Mentalizing, Gwen Adshead- Homicide, Margot Waddell-Child Psychotherapy, Joanne Stubley-Complex PTSD, Sue Mizen-Neuropsychoanalysis
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I am delighted that booking has opened for our Psychodynamic Psychiatry day. Do come and join us in person on the 1st November at the College.
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Please do look at this wonderful paper by
@MillieTamworth
if you are a mental health professional who has been, or might, go to the coroners court...
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Here is link to my first one if you haven’t got it.
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Wonderful paper published today about our peer support group for clinicians who have had a death by suicide of a patient.
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Fantastic new research on the impact of homicide on clinicians. Led by Prof. Helen Killaspy and Qamar Hussain. Do read if you have been impacted....
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Have you - or do you know - any clinicians who have been impacted by a patient homicide. If so do let them know about this conference next week -18th October. This is the only time a conference like this has happened and probably will be the only time. Ho…
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Second paper on the impact on those bereaved and the formation of delusional narratives of guilt.
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I really recommend this conference...In person at the RCPsych, great for socialising, creative contact with colleagues and excellent program.
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First paper: My own experience of clinician bereavement following patients who died by suicide and some observations that seem 'truthful' to me.
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Save the day- 18th October. Have you had a patient homicide as a clinician? This is the first conference that looks at the effect of this traumatic event.
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Viv is a excellent therapist. Do take this opportunity if you are interested in an online group.
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There are some spaces in the following online groups with very experienced and thoughtful group analysts:
Fiona Parker – Monday’s 8.30 am – 10 am
Maria-Jose Blanco – Wednesday’s 12 noon – 1.30 pm
Philippa Marx – Wednesday’s 7 – 8.…
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@LauraWright_RMN
@TheBJPsych
Thanks Laura- if we can challenge the delusional beliefs that have permeated our systems, and recognise them for what they are, I think it will really help.
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This looks like a very important article.
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It is great that there is a foundation course to group analysis being run in Brighton and Hove. Please pass on to anyone interested in group work.
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@LizPeecock
Hi Liz, some thinking is that when the decision is made there is a period of calm and what is called a decathexis of relationships (a withdrawal of energy from them)
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@shirleymcngmxc1
@TheBJPsych
There is a great quote in the Henry Marsh book ‘Do No Harm’ from the French physician René Leriche, "Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.’
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This is a really fabulous paper - on a really important topic - the experience of carers of adults at risk of suicide- so take a look.
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@HenryTTA1
Hi Henry, he is certainly in my mind. He set me on the path to training in psychotherapy. So I am grateful to him for that- and to you. You were very kind to me then. X
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@doctor_benji
@thetimes
@vintagebooks
@JonathanCape
@CBGBooks
Really well done Benji. Meet Dr Benji Waterhouse, the Adam Kay of mental healthcare
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Effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists: survey of experiences and support required
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@Shrinkwrap37
Thanks for reading it. I hope that anyone interested in what mental illness really is will take a look.
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Here is another great group relations conference requiring less resource- financial and time than the Leicester conference….
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Delighted to find this book review (by accident) of our book: Seminars in the Psychotherapies published last year! The book review was published in Academic Psychiatry in the USA.
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Thanks Kehinde. Do look at this guidance for all mental health organisations for staff support after a death of a patient by suicide.
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The program for the Effect of Patient Homicide on Clinicians Conference at the RCPsych. The only event like this there will (probably) every be. Book using this link:
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@DrAmandaMcGough
Thank you Amanda for that feedback. It was good to talk there and a shame I couldn’t stay
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Group therapy can be more effective, cheaper and more fun than individual therapy.
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The program for the Medical Psychotherapy Faculty Conference in person Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th in person at the RCPsych. Do join us for....
Creative contact
Socialising
Great speakers
Groups
Therapeutic development
Contemporary development
#creat
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@doctor_benji
@lhcomedy
@brightonfringe
@freefringefest
Really enjoyed this Benji. Great evening. Thanks
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