Acute mental health care; lessons from opera and Iceland

The idea being that all admissions would be for specific and agreed purposes with an expected timeframe which was understood and shared by patients and staff alike.\n In the evenings, there was time for analysis and reflection, to stand back from the mission at hand and indulge in the narrative of the humanity of acute mental health care. No doubt we will hear more from Iceland in the pages of the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care; they should of course, let us know how they are getting on. [...]all of us within the global PICU and LSU clinical community have a responsibility to remain curious, tell our stories and share our insights.