May 15, 2019Why do we never talk about the harm that can be done by diagnosing someone with a mental illness?[Published 10 October 2017 on The Independent, by Rachel Waddingham] "What if the use of the term “mental illness” is not only...
May 2, 2019INQUEST calls for bold action as deaths in prison rise again and levels of self-harm break records[Published 25 April 2019 on Inquest] Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST said: "Every four days, a person in prison takes their own life....
May 1, 2019Teaching ‘small and helpless’ women how to live: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy in Sweden[Published 1 October 2018 in History of Human Sciences, by Åsa Jansson] Abstract In 1995, a Swedish pilot study of Dialectical Behaviour...
Apr 28, 2019I’m a psychologist, and this is the truth about whether you can tell if someone is a ‘psychopath’...[Published 5 July 2017 on The Independent, by Jay Watts] "These character sketches of people with 'personality disorders', so influenced...
Apr 26, 2019Not so NICE Guidelines to BPD[Published 6 July 2017 on Recovery In The Bin] "The guidelines may exist but we all know services don’t actually look like the...
Apr 10, 2019I’m here to call out the psychiatric diagnosis of victims of sexual abuse and violence.[Published 13 April 2017 on VictimFocus, by Jessica Eaton] Within about six months of being in post at the rape centre, I noticed a...
Apr 5, 2019The death of Claire Greaves, BIGSPD 2019, money, and powerMany people knew Claire Greaves, if not personally then from her campaign work. She was a mental health activist who ran the blog Mental...
Apr 2, 2019Mental health patients at risk of suicide discharged from NHS without adequate support[Published 16 February 2019 on Independent, by Alex Matthews-King] "Patients with complex mental health problems and addiction issues...