A collection of resources on dialogic practice and Open Dialogue
“Open Dialogue” is an innovative approach to acute psychiatric crises developed by Jaakko Seikkula, Markku Sutela, and their multidisciplinary team at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland. Starting in the eighties, there have been a variety of research studies of Open Dialogue and its outcomes with early psychosis. Garnering widespread international attention, the results consistently show that this approach reduces hospitalization, the use of medication, and recidivism when compared with treatment as usual. For example, in a five-year study, 83% of patients had returned to their jobs or studies or were looking for a job (Seikkula et al. 2006), In the same study, 77% did not have any residual symptoms. Such outcomes led the Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health to award a prize recognizing the Keropudas group for “the ongoing development of psychiatric care over a period of ten years.” — From the Institute for Dialogic Practice
The principles and values of Open Dialogue are also applied to a variety of contexts beyond the Keropudas hospital response to psychosis, such as individual and family therapy and domestic violence. Many people in the US and internationally are now studying these methods such as the group dialogue, reflecting teams, and relational view of psychosis.
The Network of Dialogical Practices, Europe’s Open Dialogue network founded by Jaakko Seikkula and colleagues.
The International Network for the Treatment of Psychoses, founded by Tom Andersen
Madness Radio interview with Mary Olson on Open Dialogue
Open Dialogue — Alternative Care for Psychosis In Finland Developed By Jaakko Seikkula
Open Dialogue: A Documentary by Daniel Mackler
Open Dialogue: a documentary on a Finnish alternative approach to healing psychosis
Finnish Open Dialogue: High recovery rates leave many psychiatric beds empty
The Open Dialogue Approach to Psychosis: Its poetics and micropolitics
Inner and outer voices in the present moment of family and network therapy
Family and Network Therapy Training for a System of Care: “A Pedagogy of Hope”
Book Chapter on Scandinavia / Finland Approach to Psychosis
Mental Health Trialogue Network, Ireland
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, by G. Morson & C. Emerson
Family Therapy: An Intimate History, by Lynn Hoffman
Steam of Life film – Finnish men and saunas
Reflecting Teams, introduction to Tom Andersen’s book, by Lynn Hoffman
Reflecting Teams article by Tom Andersen
