It is psychologically naive to tell people, just be yourself The fundamental insight of psychoanalysis is that there is no unitary self. We are a multiplicity of selves with different aims, working at different levels of awareness When we understand this, it changes everything

New collection edited by Lee Crothers & Nick Barnes 💙 on working relationally with young people looks to be available to pre-order #CognitiveAnalyticTherapy Youth CAT #YouthCATSIG pavpub.com/mental-health/…

Hugely excited we will be able to share this collection #workingrelationallywithYP soon .... and do look out for #booklaunch plans with CAT Scotland #CATScotlandCPD #Glasgow Youth CAT ICATA Catalyse-CAT Lee Crothers Unfinalised Brent Centre Highlands Amanda Copeland Carlos Mirapeix.

So thrilled .... it has finally arrived! #workingrelationallywithYP is out! Thanks so much to all the amazing contributors from many different countries. It has been such an honour to #workalongside you all Sivakami Suresh Dr Leah O'Toole Unfinalised ACAT ICATA Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd

Do you have #AngloIndian heritage & live in the UK? Would you like to share your story & reflect on what this has meant for you, with a final year undergraduate student for his dissertation? If so, or if you have networks with whom you can share this info, then take a look ⬇️ 🙏

Check out your letterboxes for a lovely collection of CAT papers in what looks like a newly refreshed layout making #Reformulation very readable in its layout & contrast in addition to its content! Nice work, editors & ACAT team #CognitiveAnalyticTherapy #Reformulation57

Rhona Brown presenting her chapter of #oxfordhandbookofcat #cognitiveanalytictherapy

1/ “Psychotherapists are not trained to somehow turn off their feelings toward their patients. What skilled psychotherapists do, rather, is cultivate the ability to fully feel our feelings without acting on them and without burdening our patient with them. psychologytoday.com/us/articles/20…

Longitudinal evidence here of what we describe in healthy #ReciprocalRoles in CAT - #OtherToSelf #SelfToOther - would be good to hear whether (as we'd expect) there's also evidence of healthy #SelfToSelf relating in cohorts studied ACAT CAT Scotland ICATA Dr. Jessie Stern

What could prevent this situation? 🔸Early diagnosis & treatment 🔸Prevention & treatment of co-morbid substance use (cannabis, stimulants, alcohol) 🔸Compliance to medication 🔸Good supportive environment 🔸Good pre-illness functioning (There are others too) 4/4

Our research assistant Kasthuri Divya (SCARF (India)) is featured at MH InnovationNetwork with the small scale research grant she developed using photovoice to co-created with service users with lived experience of severe mental illness. tinyurl.com/3vshjvsb NIHR Global Health

Good work by Rachel Hall in the Guardian today, turning a well-aimed spotlight on unregulated psychological therapy and risks of harm. theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Really nice talk on Bharath Digital Fellowship by Harsh Nisar Harsh Nisar at IndiaFOSS 2025 bharatdigital.io/fellowship