Welcome to this, the first in a 5 part miniseries of podcast episodes produced as a response to a recent personality disorder course description circulated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. What was published was discriminatory in the extreme. Some, including me, describe it as a hate crime.
Here are a few links you may find useful
Visit the royal college of psychiatry
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/visiting-us
The royal college’s page on values and behaviours
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/what-we-do-and-how/our-values-and-behaviours
Their unreserved apology
You can find more about the Stop SIM campaign on their website here
You can find some of the key contributors and folk of interest on Twitter here
@NellAitch
@DrAdrianJames
@rcpsych
@SalfordMH
@LauraTvll
@DrChloeBeal
@StopSIMMH
If you'd like to listen to earlier walk a mile in my shoes podcasts on...you'll find them here
On the use of coercion in mental health services
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes/id1441565361?i=1000529512091
On the structural discrimination of the icd 11
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes/id1441565361?i=1000524496151
Over the next few days, I'm going to publish 4 conversations with people who've been impacted by prejudice against people with a personality disorder label in mental health services.
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