The Locked Ward: A humane and revealing account of life on the frontlines of mental health care.

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The problem was that increasingly he could no longer disentangle his patient's from his own daily life, he could forget it for a while but always it would return to nag at him like a persistent dream. And Consultant Psychologist Dr Kollipara, also based at the Juniper Ward, admitted she did not review Niall's care plan document and risk assessment documents, that also clearly outlined him as being at high risk of self harm and suicide. Kevin O’Hara: Yeah, that’s a lot. You know, that’s a walloping number! That’s a quarter of a million pills, and I think I only made three or four mistakes. It was a pleasant well furnished room, the walls lined with books and a warm log fire burning in the large carved stone fireplace.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sienna’s successful sleeping sends Natalie home early. Mere hours later, there’s a murder at the unit. Apparently, Sudanese refugee mother Jamilla al-Azari, recently ex-Nauru, is responsible, and is being held at Yarra Bend Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, where Natalie works.

Firstly the Scottish brogue, its especially jarring that O'Donnell writes in plain English, but opts to have his dialogue in the dialect (the old literary no-no.)

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During our visit we saw staff communicating and interacting with patients on the ward.” NHS Tayside respond to Carseview report This book had a lot of potential. A novel devoted to humanizing psychiatric patients and humor! What could go wrong? She passes through the hands of various kindly and avuncular experts. She is injected with a truth drug and undergoes narco-analysis in an attempt to get to the root of the trouble. She experiences a benign and highly streamlined version of electro-convulsive therapy, administered by ultra-calm nurses in starched uniforms (the film cuts just before the current is turned on). She does art therapy and physical exercise; she befriends another patient, played by Muriel Pavlow, whose problem seems to be neurotic jealousy of her sister; and finally she has some sessions of Freudian psychotherapy with the wise Dr Bell (played by Jean Anderson). There was a real female Freudian analyst working at Netherne at the time, whose name was Dr Yates. Her film alter ego helps Jane diagnose the cause of her breakdown as an inadequate childhood relationship with her mother, which she now projects onto her mother-in-law. Elsewhere the report praised staff, saying patients spoke highly of those working on the ward and the care and treatment they provided.