Psychiatrist research

What is psychiatry?
Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on emotional and behavioural disorders. It is mainly focused on:

• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Prevention.

What is a psychiatrist?

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specialises in mental health, including substance use disorders. Psychiatrists are qualified to assess both the mental and physical aspects of psychological problems.

Some reasons why people seek for psychiatric help:

• Panic attack 
• Frightening hallucinations
• Thoughts of suicide 
• Hearing "voices."
• Sadness
• Hopelessness
• Anxiousness

Psychiatrists use a variety of treatments – including various forms of psychotherapy, medications, psychosocial. All of this depends on the need of each patient. 

Psychiatrists work in a variety of settings including:

• Private practises
• Clinics
• General and psychiatric hospitals
• University medical centres
• Community agencies
• Courts
• Prisons
• Nursing homes
• Industry, government and military settings,
• Rehabilitation programs
• Emergency rooms
• Hospice programs

Site Specific: Day 5

Today we brainstormed and pitched everyone's idea and I think we went the wrong way about this. Everyone was overly protected about their idea and wouldn't want anyone to change it even if it meant it would fit better in with the piece. I think it's important for the group to remember it's a democracy and not a dictatorship and some things from the ideas we have will change. None of the  ideas we currently have is perfect enough to devise a whole performance around it.

Site Specific: Day 4

Today we had a shorter lesson than usual. We were split into 3 groups and each group had a different picture. This was the picture for my group:

We had the idea that there would be a small child crying next to the wall in a corner and two men on a tour would discover the child and try to help him. The only thing the child would say would be that he had lost his parents. Eventually voices from the parents of the child would be asking him to come back would be heard. The child then disappears through the hole. I liked this idea as it relates to Fort Amherst's ghost history and it opens up a lot of ways we can tell a story.

Other groups which had pictures came up with a military idea which they lined us up and told us that we had been forced to become soldiers. I really liked this idea as it relates to Fort Amherst's history again but I'm worried how a plot could develop from this and what could be done after this scene.

Another idea was to find someone who had the key to the country's energy crisis. I thought this was a good idea but I wouldn't know how we would be able to incorporate Fort Amherst into it

Site Specific: Day 3

Today we had to decide on our location for our performance. These were the options that we narrowed it down to:

• Fort Amherst
• Chatham Dockyard
• Upnor Castle
• Upchurch Orchard

Fort Amherst got the majority meaning that we will be performing our piece there. We got a few pictures and got split into 3 groups and with each group we had a picture which he had to devise a scene around. We decided to do a scene to go along with our boat idea but we thought we would create a flashback of three friends about how 2 are very confident about going to this warehouse and one isn't. This could be used to further develop a back story of characters and why people decided to come to the fort to be saved by this boat

Site Specific:Day 2

Today we split into two groups and we were given a picture with a location that we had put down on our brainstorm. We had a picture of Chatham Dockyard of one of the slip  roofs where they used to build ships. The fact that the area is empty, it means that we can do a lot with the piece but this also means that it's hard to base a subject round the location. We looked at a couple of ideas like people looting ship parts and builders being stuck on a roof. In the end we decided on the idea that my group from the other day came up with with the idea of the boat that's coming to save us from something. There was then one lone survivor who was waiting for his friends to return after he'd been waiting for a week for them to do so.