Out of area placements for people with "Personality Disorder": Making the case for a local intensive psychotherapeutic alternative.

Objectives: The use of Out of Area (OoA) psychiatric placements for people with "Personality Disorder" (PD) is widespread in the UK. An innovative local intensive psychotherapeutic service, adapted to the transdiagnostic presentations of the most complex PD patients, likely to be placed out of the area, was devised in the English County of Devon. This paper reports the findings of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to commissioners attempting to quantify PD OoA placements in England and the cost offset of the local therapeutic alternative to OoA placements in Devon.

'It's a double edged sword': a qualitative analysis of the experiences of exercise amongst people with Bipolar Disorder.

Background: Little is known about the therapeutic or iatrogenic effects of exercise in individuals with Bipolar Disorder, despite its potential to benefit physical and mental health. Consequently the aim of the current study was to gather data on experiences of the relationship between exercise and Bipolar Disorder from people with personal experience of the condition. In particular we sought to determine the aspects of this relationship that are pertinent to Bipolar Disorder.

Neuropsychological and psychiatric profiles in acute encephalitis in adults.

Acute encephalitis is an inflammation of brain tissue that can result from activity in the central nervous system (CNS) of a number of viruses. Although the neurological and psychiatric effects of encephalitis in the acute phase of the illness are well-known (Caroff, Mann, Gliatto, Sullivan, & Campbell, 2001), larger scale studies of the pattern of neuropsychological and psychiatric impairment following recovery from the acute inflammatory phase are less apparent. This paper reports the results of neuropsychological testing with a range of standardised cognitive measures in a case series of long-term post-acute participants.