The good old mental health defence.
Australian True Crime
Meshel Laurie
4.6 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Show Notes Ep 216 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb
Dr Danny Sullivan is the Executive Director of Clinical Services at Thomas Embling hospital, Melbourne's Secure Mental Health Hospital, which houses patients with varying levels of security clearance including some who've committed extremely violent acts, but who the court has deemed to ill to be held responsible.
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| 0:00.0 | We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July, |
| 0:04.3 | and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already. |
| 0:07.5 | Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show. |
| 0:10.3 | Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests, |
| 0:15.2 | our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bizina in |
| 0:19.9 | Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded. |
| 0:40.0 | They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging. |
| 0:47.0 | The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children. |
| 0:55.0 | For a person with a severe mental illness, their family is often a very important part of the care and support that they require and paradoxically that also places them at increased risk of being the victims of violence. Have you ever wondered what happens in a secure forensic mental health hospital. |
| 1:24.0 | I certainly have. |
| 1:25.7 | We see the headlines when someone is arrested and charged for murder, assault or rape, and |
| 1:30.0 | sometimes it's decided that they are unfit to stand trial. |
| 1:34.4 | What does this mean when someone has a defensive mental impairment? |
| 1:38.2 | How will they face the consequences of what they've done? |
| 1:41.2 | These are questions I have and I'm sure others do too. In this |
| 1:45.5 | episode Dr Danny Sullivan a psychiatrist and the executive director of |
| 1:50.0 | clinical services at forensic care joins Australian True Crime to talk about what happens |
| 1:54.8 | at Thomas Embling Hospital, a forensic mental health facility in Melbourne and how people end up there. |
| 2:05.1 | Well I trained as a psychiatrist in Melbourne. I work for forensic care which is also known as the Victorian Institute of Forensic |
| 2:09.1 | Mental Health and that's a statewide state-run authority which provides mental health services to prisons and the justice system. |
| 2:18.5 | So we have three domains, one of them is the secure hospital currently 136 beds but soon |
| 2:25.2 | funded by the state government to expand we provide outpatient clinics and |
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