Alasdair Forrest
Biographic Data
| ID | 6343709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alasdair Forrest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alasdair |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrest |
| SIGNATURE | FORREST A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Cornhill Hospital, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4615-6310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Immigrant, racialised and ethno-culturally diverse communities and community treatment orders
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illness from immigrant, racialised and ethno-culturally diverse communities experience greater coercion in mental health care. AIMS: This review aims to scope the literature and synthesise findings relevant on the association between these groups, and the use of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) and related forms of compulsory community treatment. METHOD: Five electronic databases were searched to identify r…
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, networks and introjection
Group analysts have not much turned their attention to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. There is only one paragraph on it in this journal—and in fact it was in the newsletter accompanying it (Leal, 2013)—alongside a few incidental references. In part, this may reflect a general distrust of diagnostic labels, particularly those relating to disturbed development, defined medically. It may also reflect the recent lack of attention towards g…
Noisy reflection
Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training
Having in mind those gripped by ambivalence over whether to start, or stay on, the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis, we consider the training as one in ambivalence. We see ambivalence as an asset, not a hindrance. Forsaking familiar notions of ambivalence as weak and anxious, the task is to move towards a confident ambivalence. Using the ambivalent etymology of the word ‘threshold’ as an analytic lens, we use threshold not in the sense of a wo…
Invisible havoc
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Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training
Having in mind those gripped by ambivalence over whether to start, or stay on, the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis, we consider the training as one in ambivalence. We see ambivalence as an asset, not a hindrance. Forsaking familiar notions of ambivalence as weak and anxious, the task is to move towards a confident ambivalence. Using the ambivalent etymology of the word ‘threshold’ as an analytic lens, we use threshold not in the sense of a wo…
Invisible havoc
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, networks and introjection
Group analysts have not much turned their attention to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. There is only one paragraph on it in this journal—and in fact it was in the newsletter accompanying it (Leal, 2013)—alongside a few incidental references. In part, this may reflect a general distrust of diagnostic labels, particularly those relating to disturbed development, defined medically. It may also reflect the recent lack of attention towards g…
Noisy reflection
Immigrant, racialised and ethno-culturally diverse communities and community treatment orders
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illness from immigrant, racialised and ethno-culturally diverse communities experience greater coercion in mental health care. AIMS: This review aims to scope the literature and synthesise findings relevant on the association between these groups, and the use of Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) and related forms of compulsory community treatment. METHOD: Five electronic databases were searched to identify r…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work)