"Changes are needed to policy, laws, attitudes, human and financial resources, training and research, open access to data about coercive practices, and above all readiness and capacity to work with people with lived experience and their families." - Prof Helen Herrman

Something seemed off in interviews. “We had finally figured it out: we were not hearing lived experience — we were hearing a ChatGPT ‘script,’ prepped to anticipate our questions and deliver just-plausible-enough answers in the voice of someone it imagined we wanted to talk to.”

combinations of different kinds of coercive measures as well as one-to-one supervision were applied less often. Regarding critical incidences, there were more abscondings, yet their duration was shorter and there were less suicide attempts recorded.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"We agreed that forms of coercion will need to continue for the foreseeable future and that maybe it will never be possible to eliminate it ... but... we think we should work towards the eventual elimination of coercive treatment, if at all possible."

and behaviours that, far from being the grateful awkward response to the offer of support are raw wild expressions of grief and pain and anger. We do not always seek out help; sometimes all we feel is pain and pain is rarely something that we can easily deal with."

"I have a terrible feeling that some people think that if people were just nice to us and kind and addressed a few inequalities that face us everything would be ok, but we can enter realms where our reality is not amenable to reason and we can find we have emotions ...

I was sorry to hear the Chief Editor of the Yearbook, Prof Charles Ngwena, passed away in recent weeks. A brief tribute (one among several) for Prof Ngwena has been posted here: law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

David Clifford and I raised this in concern in 2021: t.co/edqjIHXI32

"… before any further rollout of video monitoring technology is considered, we believe there needs to be significant research undertaken that is independently accredited and co-produced with patients, their carers and families."

"... Building on the Compendium Report of good practices in the Council of Europe to promote voluntary measures in mental health services". Shameless self plug but I was pleased to see the Committee reference the 2021 report I was commissioned to write. www.coe.int/en/web/human...