📢 Two new chapters on #WomensHealth in a new book on Shame. 📚 1st with Thula Koops, Dr Catherine Wilkinson, Grace Perry, & Dr Samantha Wilkinson on female genital cosmetic surgery. researchgate.net/publication/35… 2nd with Dr Shereen Shaw on Arab women's sexual supression. researchgate.net/publication/35…

Thank you for three inspiring days in lovely Porto at the European Sexual Medicine Network - COST European Research Workshop in Sexual Medicine Universidade Porto @sexlab_porto Pedro Nobre, Joana Carvalho, @ErickJanssen, Aleksandar Štulhofer, Dr. Cynthia Graham , Marieke Dewitte and all participants who made it extra special

Passed my viva yesterday, currently feeling lighter than a feather (not to mention VERY tired) and excited about the next chapter! Thanks to all people who were part of this journey <3

Glad to see our metaphor analysis published @HannahFrith7 : ‘I don’t live in my body somehow’: metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of vaginismus and dyspareunia tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

15 bookmark-worthy tools for researchers that cost you nothing and will save you time (& nerves) when researching, writing and publishing. A thread. 🧵 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

📢 About a year in the making... Over 12,500words, 147references, & 3 peer reviewers who accepted the manuscript 'as is' with no revisions required. 🥳 Our article on how best to support qualitative researchers is published! QMiP Centre for Qualitative Research, Bath Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @euroqualpsy.bsky.social @QualPsy NIHR ARC South London

School of Life Course & Population Sciences press release about our IJQM paper Kayleigh Sheen Bramante Alessandra Kate Knighting 😷💙 @_ystevenson Thula Koops Dr Laura Soulsby (she/her) Megan Watkins Lucy November Dr Elsa Montgomery Abigail Easter Prof Jane Sandall CBE How to support qualitative researchers in the field doi.org/10.1177/160940…

New research on sexual experiences of women who opted for genital cosmetic surgery: nature.com/articles/s4144…

Our paper on the importance of sexed language for communications regarding pregnancy, birth, lactation, breastfeeding and newborn care is just shy of 100,000 reads. Thank you to everyone who has read, shared and engaged in discussion about it. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Experiences of anal sex, pregnancy loss, and dissatisfaction with appearance associated with the pursuit of Female #GenitalCosmetic Surgery. rdcu.be/c1pF9 Thula Koops European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM)

Lovely to be featured on the Research in 90 Seconds Podcast. Credit for the paper shared with Kayleigh Sheen Bramante Alessandra Kate Knighting 😷💙 Thula Koops Dr Elsa Montgomery Lucy November Dr Laura Soulsby (she/her) Jasmin H. Stevenson Megan Watkins Abigail Easter & Prof Jane Sandall CBE Link to Paper: doi.org/10.1177/160940…

'Negotiating womanhood' and 'Othering the body' - check out this SciPod audio summary of our study anaysing women's reflections on their sexual pain experiences #vaginismus #dyspareunia #sexualpain #Groundedtheory #Qualitativeresearch

Find out more about #psychodynamic features of women experiencing #sexualpain in this scipod episode on our Frontiers - Psychology paper #vaginismus #dyspareunia #OPD

Excellent systematic review paper by some of the leading researchers in our field concluding that psychodynamic therapy is an evidence-based psychotherapy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

A healthy, integrated, whole, flexible sense of self must develop in the context of relationships All the self-help and self-healing and self-care in the world cannot change this The focus on self self self by social media Insta-therapists is the disease it purports to cure

Three short screening questions associated with a DSM-5 sexual dysfunction diagnosis Check out our latest paper in Sexual Medicine ISSM: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37465531/ #sexualhealth #sexualmedicine #sexualdysfunction

'Treatment resistant depression' is defined as not 'getting better' after trying two different drugs. It turns out that psychotherapy works with such distress, so it's not 'treatment resistant' after all. Perhaps just offer therapy sooner next time... madinamerica.com/2023/11/depres…