Happening this Friday! onlinevents.co.uk/event/the-un...

@emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social speaking at Kingsley Hall, location of one of R.D. Laing’s most remembered experiment. Thank you Compassionate Mental Health for organising such a great day reflecting on the impact of therapeutic communities and alternatives for people with lived experience of psychosis.

WFH kitty 🐈‍⬛

Uncovering the true aim of therapy is a vital part of the therapeutic process. It must emerge collaboratively, not be imposed externally before the work begins (e.g. when services prioritise outcomes like 'return to work'). When this happens, you're being co-opted, not helped.

We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness. Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-... #TherapistsConnect

www.newyorker.com/culture/essa... brilliant essay by Hanif Abdurraqib

Austerity of the imagination is upon us. Inundated with ways to dissociate, it is really painful to turn towards the horizon of what we’re navigating. We’re watching systems collapsing and are bereft by the task of trying to dream up creative alternatives in the wake of all the devastation.

“Be a shadow and hope that you do not die.” A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate

This should terrify us all. The increased carcerality in mental health care along with the impunity of the current administration is a recipe for disaster. Or is it the case that institutions such as these are now just saying what they’ve always done on the tin? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No society in history has ever professionalised the management of emotional distress as thoroughly & excessively as our own. We have stigmatised self-trust, scoffed at lay wisdom, & stripped local & grassroots knowledge & support of its value & legitimacy. And for what in return?

Our solidarity statement following yesterday's UK supreme court ruling

Today, and on all days, NSUN stands in solidarity with trans women and all other trans people. Our hearts are aching. We will continue to show up in the fight for trans rights, which shouldn't be a fight in the first place (1/2).

I am excited to share a blog post, courtesy of the Collective for Radical Death Studies, related to my book, *Sudden Deaths in St. Louis.* www.radicaldeathstudies.com/blog/suicide...

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Starmer's attacks on protest drag UK into dark ages www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEa...

“And when one day our human kind becomes full-grown, it will not define itself as the sum total of the whole world’s inhabitants, but as the infinite unity of their mutual needs.” - Sartre

With more than 3000 deaths at the hands of police over the past 50 years, there have only been 4 successful prosecutions that led to police officers being convicted and sent to prison. The disproportionate number of Black people killed represents the depth of racism ingrained in UK police forces.

Attended The People’s Tribunal on police killings this weekend. This was led by families of those killed by police who shared their story with an international panel to examine the evidence. In 6/7 of the cases I heard, it was a mental health call that ended up killing the person needing support.

It is time to reimagine our schools as spaces that prioritise mental health, emotional and interpersonal growth, and inclusivity. We are engaging the psych bodies in the UK alongside young people and other professionals to start imagining a new way forward. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/emotionall...

Help make schools a place of emotional health, wellbeing, and nurturing. Join us for our cross-professions event: Friday 25th April, 5-7pm. Free, but please register via the link below.

“We cannot understand what disease is as long as the primary needs of men are not met.” - Basaglia

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

The share of the NHS budget spent on mental health is set to fall next year, despite acknowledgement there is a mental health crisis and that services are in dire state. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

As Rachel Reeves follows the deathly neoliberal script to the letter, here is our latest video, explaining the dire state of this government and demanding better. Please do watch.

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma (To Have Our Hearts Broken) by Taiwo Afuape. “We need a psychology that breaks our heart”

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time—that is the basic message.~Pema Chödrön, 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵

21 countries around the world allow trans people to self-ID, choosing autonomy and dignity over what is often a humiliating and distressing process. The UK has the opportunity to join them, instead of falling further behind. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

1. What explains the paralysis that seems to have overcome us, as we watch the most powerful nation of Earth spiralling towards fascist dictatorship? Well, a large part of it, I feel, is the surreal, astonishing uselessness of the Democratic Party. 🧵