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This paper reports how, at the outset of a crisis, a psychiatric hospital admission team in Finland has experimented with openly discussing treatment decisions in the presence of and with patients and members of their families and social network. The paper aims to clarify the co‐evolving process between the family and hospital and reports some results using this approach.
Jaakko Seikkula (1994) studied this question.