As a consultant clinical psychologist, let’s just be clear on the evidence, The Labour Party . If you want people to do well, uplift them. That means treating people with dignity, decent benefits one can live on without worry, not casting moral aspersions on people. Cuts do not work.

Yes, they did. Shocking. #TakingThePIP #DisabilityBenefits

PLEASE take note of this Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves

SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a hugely dangerous and discriminatory change to UC health rules that would drastically increase new claimants’ financial and psychological precarity. #TakingThePIP

The ‘Severe Conditions’ Criteria, as proposed, are likely to exclude claimants with fluctuating mental health conditions. This could result in significant financial losses (up to £2,800–£9,600 annually), increased reassessment frequency, and heightened psychological distress.

Yes!

Facts do matter!

🔥How Cutting-Edge Neuroscience Informs Psychoanalytic Concepts with Maggie Zellner, PhD I’ve posted this podcast before but it’s just so damn good I have to post it again. Recommended for anyone curious about the neuroscience behind psychoanalysis apsa.org/psychoanalysis…

Indeed.

Samaritans to close branches. theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

What is the point of therapy? - Psychotherapy faces skepticism in psychiatry, yet it remains vital for understanding patients' narratives and enhancing therapeutic relationships. My latest article: Reclaiming the Narrative: Why Psychiatrists Must Learn Psychotherapy Link below

Hey Grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was.

Psychiatrist: “There aren’t enough RCTs documenting the safety and efficacy of the ketogenic diet in people with mental illness for me to feel comfortable recommending it.” Patient: “Can you point me to the RCTs documenting the safety, efficacy, and lack of drug interactions

She died because the people around her didn’t know anything about #psychosis. Please read and share this story. theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

Disability benefits aren’t “extra money.” They exist to cover the ADDITIONAL COSTS of being disabled or sick. And research shows they NEVER close the gap. #TakingThePIP

Umm, yes.

This might be the most important tweet you read this year. #AI

How to be a therapist in three difficult steps: 1) Be a person, in a room, with another person. 2) Try to understand what that means. 3) Repeat.

No, it's not.

Few people understand that depression is an effect, not a cause. For most people most of the time, it’s rooted in recurring—and largely unconscious—relationship and personality patterns. Until they’re understood and addressed, problems will continue. Better mood ≠ getting well.