How neurodiversity can impact treatment of an eating disorder sbs.com.au/news/podcast-e…

Coming soon: The Double Empathy Reader pavpub.com/health-and-soc…

Saying a drug has risks is not the same as shaming someone who takes it. We must talk about withdrawal, emotional blunting, persistent sexual dysfunction (PSSD), and the brain injuries people report after fast tapers. That’s not stigma. That’s informed consent.

Reading Laura Delano's excellent book, 'Unshrunk,' and this passage just popped out at me. Such an important side-effect of medicalisation, a damaging (and untrue) cluster of beliefs that so many carry with them.

Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice is seeking to appoint two Advisory Editors and five Editors! We are hoping to receive expressions of interest from suitable candidates around the globe.

Autism in the context of joint hypermobility, hypermobility spectrum disorders, and Ehlers–Danlos syndromes: A systematic review and prevalence meta-analyses journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Robert Howard If AI can mimick, or even outperform, mental health clinicians in providing mental health treatments, isn’t that a testament of the fact we have taken the manualisation & standardisation of treatments too far and we need to bring back the humane, individualised, care approaches?

First do no harm: Client and staff experiences of negative effects from dialectical behaviour therapy - Lawson - Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - Wiley Online Library bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

Just saying… 🤷‍♀️

Pleased to see this paper exploring autistic communication experiences, particularly acknowledgement of the difficulties interacting with other autistic people. For far too long we have ignored this, while serious harm is caused by lateral violence within the autistic community

A systematic review and meta-ethnography of client and therapist perspectives of the therapeutic alliance in the context of psychotherapy and suicidal experiences sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #SuicidePrevention #suicideresearch #ecrchat #TherapistsConnect #psychotherapy #therapist

Great article with direct quotes from autistic psychiatrists Mary Doherty 🏳️‍🌈 thank you for reversing a lot of the damage happening in our community at the moment.

Tilly Change.org UK It’s not an isolated incident though, which shows a pattern of behaviour, not a “mistake”. It’s also wild to call rape threats “not a big deal”, regardless of the fact it was just “shared”.

Science is finally catching up to what autistic women have known for decades: We were never “less autistic”—we were just left out of the research. Medical misogyny shaped the tools, the data, and the diagnoses. Now it’s time to listen. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Epistemic injustice... being autistic means one’s credibility and capacity to relate an accurate account of one’s own experience is often questioned. How can I be a doctor if I am autistic? Conversely, how can I be autistic if I am a doctor? thelancet.com/journals/lance…