Dr Lynne Drummond, SW London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, London, the first plenary speaker of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Winter Conference 2014 covered the state-of the-art psychopharmacological and psychological
approaches to OCD in her talk ‘TREATING PROFOUND REFRACTORY OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE
DISORDER’. Dr Drummond examined outcomes to these strategies and possible new interventions for
the future were identified.


Lynne Drummond CPsychI Winter Conference 2014

An interview with Professor Kevin Browne  University of Nottingham Medical School, UK who spoke at the CPsychI Winter Conference 2014 on  ‘HOW EARLY ADVERSE LIFE EVENTS AND TRAUMA CAN AFFECT LATER FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS’

“One of the most disturbing consequences of child maltreatment is the fact that victimized children
may later perpetrate abuse and neglect as a parent or offend in the community. This association is not
straight forward, as not all abused children will become offenders and likewise not all offenders have
a history of child maltreatment”. Prof Browne outlined from recent research the risks and
probabilities of victims becoming perpetrators as a result of childhood maltreatment. 

Kevin Browne CPsychI Winter Conference 2014

Prof Brendan Kelly, Consultant psychiatrist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin,
completed the College of Psychiatrirsts Winter Conference 2014 plenary sessions with an informative and entertaining look at ‘HUMAN
RESPONSES IN THE TIME OF PESTILENCE – A WALK THROUGH HISTORY FROM THE PLAGUE OF
ATHENS TO THE CURRENT EBOLA EPIDEMIC’
Prof Kelly’s talk focused on psychological responses to plagues, epidemics and other apparent threats
of mass infection, ranging from earliest times, through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to
the current response to Ebola drawing on medical and historical sources, as well as issues within the
history of psychiatry relating to contagion, miasma and hysteria.

Brendan Kelly CpsychI Winter Conference 2014

The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland marks World Mental Health Week 2015 theme 'Dignity' with a series of perspective pieces recorded for RTE Radio 1's 'A Living Word'.

The pieces come from 
Brendan Kelly,  Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Jeanine Webster, Carer and Member of REFOCUS
Faisal Nasrullah, Trainee Psychiatrist
Laura Louise Condell, See Change Ambassador
Liam Hennessy, Co-Chair of REFOCUS

Jeanine Webster - A Living Word RTE

Brendan Kelly  - A Living Word RTE

Laura Louise Condell - A Living Word RTE

Faisal Nasrullah - A Living Word RTE

Liam Hennessy - A Living Word RTE

Dr John Hillery, Director of Communications for the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, spoke to Jonathan Healy on Newstalk Luncthime on April 18th 2016 about proposed plans to divert money supposedly ring-fenced for mental health to other politically sensitive areas.

Dr John Hillery on Newstalk Luncthime

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