Category: Blog
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Patient Confidentiality: College President Dr William Flannery speaks with the Irish Times
College President Dr William Flannery was featured in an Irish Times article entitled ‘Is your conversation with your therapist truly confidential?’ Excerpts from the article are included below. It follows a recent RTÉ Prime Time Investigates which alleged that the private information of autistic children and their families was disclosed without their knowledge or consent. The…
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Sunday Independent: ‘The problem with long-term lockdowns is people start ignoring them’
Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Miriam Kennedy speaks with the Irish Independent about why she is ‘not remotely surprised people are breaking restrictions’. Read highlights featuring Dr Kennedy below and read the article in full on the Irish Independent website here. Given emerging data on the increase of visits to households since the beginning of February, Dr…
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Statement following RTE Prime Time Investigates, Thursday 25th March 2021
The College of Psychiatrists recognises that the content of the RTE investigates programme is likely to cause significant distress to autistic people and their families to learn that, according to the programme, their private information was disclosed without their knowledge or consent. Psychiatrists work in complex systems with obligations to their patients, employer, their contract as…
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RCPsych Celebrates Women in Psychiatry Throughout March
In marking International Women’s Day, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), have set out to highlight diverse experiences of women psychiatrists in their ’25 Women’ project thoughout the month of March. Every Monday, RCPsych will be publishing five stories of women in psychiatry, including an upcoming piece by Irish Psychiatrist, Dr Eimer Philbin-Bowman which we…
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An Update from the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders
Clinical Lead for the HSE National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders, Dr Michelle Clifford, provides an update on the national roll-out of programme, and the future of eating disorder care in Ireland. This Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I am delighted to update you on the progress of the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders (NCPED).…
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Parent Perspective: Supporting our daughter with Anorexia Nervosa during the Covid 19 Pandemic
As part of a series marking Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2021, one parent kindly shares their experience of supporting their daughter who was diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. When the lockdown started in March 2020 we had just begun to come to terms with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa…
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Binge Eating Disorder: Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2021
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the theme for this year’s Eating Disorder Awareness Week, taking place from the 1st to the 7th of March. Dr Caroline Maher, Co-Chair of the College Special Interest Group on Eating Disorders, provides some key information on the diagnosis and treatment of what is the most common eating disorder. …
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Fact or Fiction: 8 Common Myths Around Eating Disorders
In marking Eating Disorders Awareness Week 2021, we address some of the myths that exist in the public domain surrounding these serious mental disorders. Awareness of eating disorders has been increasingly evident in media coverage over the past few years, with many women and men coming forward to share their lived experiences with a range…
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Irish Times: Hidden epidemic of gambling addiction
College President Dr William Flannery writes to the Irish Times to welcome newly proposed legislation that will look to ban gambling advertisement in sports, and to further discuss the need to tackle our ‘hidden epidemic of gambling addiction in Ireland’. Read the letter in full below or on the Irish Times website here. Sir,…
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Irish Times: Prisons and mentally ill people – time for an inquiry
Calls for enquiry into historical coercive confinement in psychiatric institutions need to extend to our current system, one that stigmatises and ultimately punishes those with severe mental illness. Senior Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Conor O’Neill, Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Damian Smith and Clinical Professor of Forensic Psychiatry Harry Kennedy, all of…