In the previous part of the issue we argued that opening the doors of acute psychiatric inpatient wards is actually one of the anchor points on the way to an innovative psychiatry. It focuses on the patient's personality in a sense that this is taken as seriously as the psychiatric disorder itself. Patients and relatives should be enabled to participate in treatment decisions as they should experience that treatment teams are concerned about reliance, liability and security in therapeutic relationships in an empathetic way. The second part of the issue contributes to the therapeutic measures, the different skills and modifications of treatment frameworks in acute psychiatry (e.g. prevention of crowding in acute psychiatric inpatient units, education of staff, assessment of the risks of violence, de-escalation strategies and coping with suicidality). They might be helpful in implementing the outlined confidence about the essence of therapeutic relationships, autonomy and codetermination of patients in treatment. These suggestions might enhance a professional approach particularly with respect to prevention and also concerning acute interventions in situations of endangerment to self and others and of aggression and violence in the units. In this way they help to achieve the goal of open doors in psychiatry.
The prolonged TI suggests an abnormal activation of interhemispheric connections between the motor cortices and may be related to previously reported pathology of the corpus callosum in schizophrenic patients.
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