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The Cass report – An empty gesture
After four years work, the Cass report on gender identity services for children and young people emerged last week. And it was pretty damming: according…
Apr 15
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March 2024
The Mental Health of political ideology
If you read the Guardian, you are more likely to experience mental health issues than if you read the Telegraph or even the Daily Mail (I know!). That…
Mar 15
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‘Bad Therapy’ II
Every generation has concerns about the next one and for some time now, concerns about the young have centred around mental health. That’s new, that…
Mar 13
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Bad Therapy: A review of the reviews
Abigail Shrier, author of a previous highly controversial book about transgender issues, has just published Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up…
Mar 4
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Suffer The Children
Oh dear. According to a Health Foundation funded report from the Resolution Foundation earlier this week, more people in their early 20s are out of work…
Mar 1
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February 2024
The Drugs don’t work (and nor does anything else)
The first thing to say is that drugs don’t cure mental illness. That’s not even what people are trying to do with them. They can reduce the severity of…
Feb 29
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The utmost importance of seeing what you're up to
People get mentally ill because they can't make use of the idea of doing better. So, they get stuck in their own failures and stuck in the fear and…
Feb 21
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November 2023
Conclusions
The groundwork has been laid out in previous essays. This one is where the pieces get pulled together. This article is the culmination of what this blog…
Nov 28, 2023
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October 2023
Psychoeducation…Run, Run, Run Away
The evidence is that Psychology (which for these purposes includes psychiatry and psychotherapy) is not very effective at treating mental health. The…
Oct 19, 2023
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September 2023
Basing the evidence
These essays have offered up a number of propositions about mental health issues: · It’s always the same underneath – look carefully enough, and far…
Sep 5, 2023
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June 2023
Ladders
The title to this series of articles comes from a poem by W.B. Yeats “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”: ……………………..Now that my ladders gone I must lie down…
Jun 21, 2023
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Ladders
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Other People
The story so far…. Everyone is born with the idea that there is somehow, something wrong with them, that they are worse than other people.[i] That is…
Jun 13, 2023
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Other People
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