Category: Blog
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Is There a Crisis in Crisis Intervention? Key Topic for Discussion at Joint CPsychI/RCPsychNI Conference
A joint conference with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland, the two-day programme of the College Winter Conference, themed Psychiatry and Conflict, aims to explore issues around conflict in many and varied contexts. A focus on crisis interventions in both jurisdictions (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) will feature tomorrow afternoon, Friday 15th…
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Medical Independent: CPsychI President Dr John Hillery on 2019 joint Winter Conference with RCPsychNI
Speaking to the Medical Independent in advance of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Joint conference with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland titled Psychiatry and Conflict, President of the College Dr John Hillery discussed what attendees can expect of the programme, as well as issues around Psychiatry training. You can read the full Medical Independent…
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Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition 2019
“Cannabis: Path to Nirvana or Road to Perdition” – the question this years teams will present on in the hopes of clinching the 2019 Spike Milligan Trophy. The Spike Milligan Public Speaking Competition is an All-Ireland Intervarsity Competition for medical students which aims to foster the development of communication skills and mental health awareness, all…
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Irish Times: Cannabis-related admissions to psychiatric hospitals rose 185% in eight years
An article in the Irish Times describing new research by Adolescent Addiction Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Bobby Smyth, along with Anne O’Farrell and Antoinette Daly, highlights the rise in admissions to general and psychiatric hospitals from 2008 to 2016. This follows a decline in the perceived risk of regular recreational consumption of cannabis. You can read the…
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Drawing strength: How art helped me beat depression
Two years ago, Orna Cunningham was in a very dark place. Unemployed and lonely, she felt trapped in a spiral of negative thoughts. Then she found an old roommate’s paints. This article, written by Orla Cunningham, appeared in the Independent.ie on 21.02.2019. In September 2017, I moved into the third floor of a house in…
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Ryan Tubridy Show: Interview with author Scarlett Curtis on mental illness
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Ryan Tubridy interviewed author Scarlett Curtis about her personal experiences with anxiety, depression and PTSD, inequalities around access to treatment and her generational history with psychology and psychiatry as the great-great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud Curtis spoke following publication of her book It’s Not OK To Feel Blue (and other…
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Medical Independent: The second anniversary of specialist perinatal mental health services model of care
In an article for the Medical Independent, June Shannon looks at the implementation of Ireland’s first specialist perinatal mental health services model of care on the second anniversary of its publication. You can read the full Medical Independent article, published on 19/09/19, here. ‘Prior to [the] new model, the perinatal mental health service was solely concentrated…
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I Dream of Painting and then I Paint My Dream
Psychiatry trainee Dr Aoife O’Callaghan explores the art of Vincent van Gogh, theories around the mental illnesses he may have suffered and how those illnesses influenced his art and his ability to create. This article by Dr Aoife O’Callaghan with help from Dr Orla Fitzgerald was originally published in Think Tank, a quarterly e-newsletter for trainees…
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Irish Times: Profoundly compassionate psychiatrist and widely admired scholar. Our colleague, Dr Séamus Mac Suibhne (RIP)
In a tribute featured in the Irish Times, consultant psychiatrists Prof Brendan Kelly and Dr Kieran O’Loughlin recount the numerous achievements in the short life of Dr Séamus Mac Suibhne, who died tragically on 8 September this year. Dr Mac Suibhne was actively involved in many areas of the College of Psychiatrists since it was…
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Hot Topic in Psychiatry launches Fifth Series of Events This Month
Now in its fifth year, the College is delighted to launch its Hot Topics series for this academic year, continuing the opportunity for Psychiatrists to hear from speakers on a wide range of topical issues relevant to Psychiatry. An evening format of Two Speakers, Two CPD Credits, One Thursday per month makes it easy for…