In this ‘in conversation with,’ I talk to Professor Gareth Owen about his new book Psychiatry and Human Nature: Classic and Romantic Perspectives, and he helps unpack what ‘classic’ and ‘romantic’ mean in this context, moving into deep waters around capacity and risk to others as we go.

The work that we discuss around mental capacity in the second part of the discussion can be accessed via this website.

For the original video, see here.

Following on from my videos about capacity and best interests, this video seeks to put those concepts to practical application.

The slides are here.

Boring but necessary caveat: nothing in this constitutes legal advice

In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Susannah Bowyer, Deputy Director at Research in Practice, about the recent research paper published by Research in Practice and the National Children’s Bureau (commissioned by DfE) entitled (snappily) Improving the outcomes of looked-after children and young people in complex situations with multiple needs, at risk or subject to a Deprivation of Liberty. Spoiler alert, we do not spend a great deal of time on the technicalities of deprivation of liberty, but instead think about the ‘upstream’ issues (we do, though, flag chapter 5 of the paper – the case-law briefing) written by Camilla Parker KC (Hon)).

For the original video, see here.