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DSPD or ‘Don’t Stigmatise People in Distress’

Invited commentary on ... Challenges in the treatment of dangerous and severe personality disorder

David Kingdon is Professor of Mental Health Care Delivery at the University of Southampton (Department of Mental Health, University of Southampton, Royal South Hants Hospital, Brintons Terrace, Southampton SO14 0YG, UK. Email: dgk{at}soton.ac.uk) and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist to Hampshire Partnership Trust. His clinical work is based on an acute in-patient ward, providing specialist opinion and management. He has researched cognitive therapy and mental health service delivery.

Working with people who have criminal convictions for endangering others is certainly challenging. The place of psychiatric or psychological intervention is still uncertain but for some people, for example those who have a background of physical or sexual abuse, it seems reasonable to provide them with access to interventions that seem to benefit those who do not have such convictions. The dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) system provides an environment to do this. However, if it is ever to be successful in enabling future safe community placements, it has to address issues of stigmatisation.

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				D. Kingdon Author's reply: The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 1, 2008; 192(1): 71 - 71. [Full Text] [PDF]