Clinical psychologist colleagues:
My line manager is retiring, so we are recruiting!
Could you be the next Director of the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology?
canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/worki…

Clinical psychologist colleagues:
My line manager is retiring, so we are recruiting!
Could you be the next Director of the Salomons Institute of Applied Psychology?
canterbury.ac.uk/about-us/worki…

ECT survey
This research by Psychology at UEL aims to understand people's experience of ECT.
Please consider completing it if you or a family member have had ECT.
uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57…

This is sooo brilliant. Who else has heard people giving the same speech that Patrick Stewart does at the beginning?

Still looking. 👇👇👇

One of the greatest findings of 20th century anthropology is that social structures shape psychological structures, and one of the greatest failings of modern psychology is to have almost entirely ignored this.

'I've also had the experience of the crisis team both without a recorded PD diagnosis on my notes and with one. It's night and day. Why do we give already vulnerable people labels that basically flag them up as targets for more abuse and trauma?'- Fern Foster

💜 and 🕯️for day 2.

Euthanasia legislation will pass in the whole of the UK sooner or later.

The celebrity-media-powered lobby is too influential to resist, writes Kathleen Stock: 👇 buff.ly/4aCEj0O

We are currently updating the RCPsych resource on Being sectioned. Let me know if you have any suggestions:

rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/…

My colleague Caroline and I wrote this.
Where next for CBT and psychosis?
academia.edu/38056299/WHERE…?

Really excited that our new Lived Experience Research Fellow roles Mental Health Policy Research Unit are now open for applications.

More details here:
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Please help spread the word!

This is a VERY interesting article about how to solve the housing crisis in a way that does not require more building. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Aims for service user involvement in training -
staying human.
academia.edu/28599302/Aims_…

Really pleased to see this prevention recommendation in this report. We called for this in our manifesto Platfform

We need to break the cycle of spend + for mental health we know prevention is the answer. We must address the social determinants.👏

platfform.org/system-change/…

I watched this last night.
Would be very interested in what y'all thought of it.

Please share my final year project student's study on coping with voice hearing experiences. Info and survey below Rufus May Dr Anne Cooke
ltu.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/voice-hearers-…

Anyone else find this really scary?
Canada will soon offer doctor-assisted death to the mentally ill.
nationalpost.com/health/canada-… via National Post

Ideally, 'dediagnosing' perfect partner to 'deprescribing' in reducing harmful psych & medical excesses.

Practically, diagnoses that should be written in pencil are instead set in stone- so easy to give wrong diagnoses/so hard to erase them.

Great piece: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Participants needed for research into the private diagnosis of ADHD. If you are a GP working within the National Health Service we are interested in your opinions. Please email [email protected] to register your interest in taking part.

Brilliant piece from the fab Daniel Freeman on how he developed his (common sense or radical, depending on your view) understanding of paranoia and found ways to help people.
The world is a better place for having you in it Dan, thank you for all you do 👏👏👏