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The Cassel Centenary quilt is now complete, thanks to the help of an enthusiastic group of nimble stitchers. Members of the Mend, Make and Craft sewing group, who meet weekly at Ham Library, sewed on 120 buttons to frame the patchwork diamonds and add the finishing touches to this unique piece of textile art. The quilt is a key feature of The […]
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This film is based on a paper presented by former Cassel patients at the BIGSPD conference in June 2023, and subsequently published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Using a diary format, it chronicles their experience during a typical week in the life of an Outreach patient at The Cassel, where a strong culture of peer […]
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The three conference papers from the Cassel Hospital Summer Conference 2024 have now been published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy (Volume 41:3 August 2025). Adult Psychotherapist Sally Arthur comments: “The BJP journal is well respected in the field of psychoanalytic psychotherapy journals, so it is wonderful that we have been able to publicise the […]
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Supporting past patients to develop their skills and develop work as experts by experience is the main focus of the CHCT’s Service User Involvement Fund (SUIV). So we were delighted to fund past patients to attend the annual BIGSPD conference held this year in Belfast. The former outreach patient group had successfully presented at last […]
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Thank you Sigma Sports and all your energetic and generous riders who raised £120 for the Cassel Hospital Charity on your recent EveryoneMatters Ride, raising awareness for mental health.
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The CHCT is delighted to announce that it is funding new, ground-breaking research led by King’s College London. The project will look at the occurrence of remission and recovery among patients with personality disorder. These concepts are not easy to quantify but are fundamental to measuring the effectiveness of treatment and to the development of […]
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Staff and patients from The Cassel are working with archivists on how the hospital’s internationally important records may help in the treatment of personality disorders. The project is part of The Cassel’s centenary celebrations and centres on the exploration of documents and artefacts dating from 1919. These are kept at The Planned Environment Therapy Archives […]
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New research funded by The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust has shown short-term interventions may be helpful to people with a diagnosis of personality disorder and complex trauma. Current guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) does not support the use of short-term interventions. The Cassel Hospital Research unit applied to the charity for […]
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The Cassel Hospital’s on-going research project looking at the symptom severity of patients during and after their treatment at the Cassel won a poster prize in the Royal College of Psychiatrists Medical Psychotherapy Conference held in London in April. The project included treatment outcomes of 40 patients with a diagnosis of personality disorder as measured […]
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