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Surviving the Heart of Darkness: reflections on the experience of psychiatrists working in public mental health services in Australia

Published:2019-08-21 Issue:6 Volume:27 Page:634-636
ISSN:1039-8562
Container-title:Australasian Psychiatry
language:en
Short-container-title:Australas Psychiatry

Author:

Looi Jeffrey CL¹²^ORCID,Maguire Paul³

Affiliation:

1. Associate Professor and Acting Head, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, ANU Medical School, Canberra, ACT, Australia

2. Clinical Associate Professor, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

3. Lecturer and Acting Co-Deputy Head, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, ANU Medical School, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Abstract

Objective: We reflect upon the bleak experiential landscape of psychiatrists working in underfunded, under-resourced and demoralised public mental health services through the metaphorical narrative of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Conclusion: It remains difficult to navigate through the Heart of Darkness. We suggest some navigable markers that may stave off metaphorical running aground.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1039856219866365

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