What is it about?
In this patient-led collective-autoethnography we provide personal reflections on a week in Cassel Hospital’s outpatient treatment, Outreach. We discuss the rationale for the treatment and describe the programme. We consider the patient role in therapeutic community treatment.
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Why is it important?
The diary style reflections give a unique lived-experience perspective of a week in treatment at an outpatient therapeutic community. Our approach immerses readers into the psychodynamic, psychosocial, community-based treatment and highlights the role we, as patients, have in each other's treatment.
Perspectives
Patient voices are often unheard, therefore it is important that our views and experiences are authentically represented in literature. Our expert-by-experience perspectives provide an essential balance to experts-by-profession and enable us to create a rich and immersive experience.
Marilyn Ruttley
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This page is a summary of: When patients become the treatment: experiences of community-based treatment for complex trauma and personality disorders at Cassel Hospital, Therapeutic Communities The International Journal of Therapeutic Communities, March 2025, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/tc-01-2023-0002.
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