Hello @asylummagazine.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social please share this link with your followers in Edinburgh who may be interested in joining us on Tues 12 August 7pm at the Outhouse www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...

Matthew Jackman is a global mental health activist focusing on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective. Join us on Tues 12 Aug in Edinburgh to hear about his work. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...

If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, please join me next week at the Outhouse for Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman Date: 12 aug • 19:00 Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...

Why are we legally detaining teenages in mental health hospitals? And then allow them to be so poorly run? I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better… This is ableism pure and simple. Poor love. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

From the event at Contact theatre in Manchester on 9 July where the Summer Issue 2025 of @asylummagazine.bsky.social (guest-edited by the Balmy Army) was launched A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured

I have written a rebuttal to @doctoroxford.com's review of Bella Jackson's Fragile Minds in today's @theguardian.com Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social Read my response here: open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...

juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession... A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry. @asylummagazine.bsky.social @madintheuk.bsky.social

My response to today's review of Fragile Minds - published in @theguardian.com by @doctoroxford.com juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...

UberTherapy is the essential guide to the uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design asking if 'therapeutic Tinder' offers a way to avoid the deep and uncomfortable work of therapy. Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

My latest post, on the upcoming ISPSUK annual conference: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/finding-co...

Anyone know of any lived/living experience led research projects around suicide understanding either past or present, UK or abroad? #madsky #madstudies @roryoc.bsky.social

thoughts on a Sunday morning... open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...

The latest issue of Asylum Magazine is out now. I'm very pleased to have an article in this issue, about the Mad Insight project with which I am involved. madinsight.online

Looking forward to the Mad Studies Symposium event on 8 Dec. #Intentionalpeersupport Co-Director Chris Hansen will be delivering a short session at the event on IPS. www.idha-nyc.org/mad-studies-...

Please circulate through your networks: my group coaching programme Mad Studies Mastermind is now open for bookings. Presentations, action learning sets, reflective writing and interactive discussions. contact me [email protected] for more info #madstudies #coaching

And a link to my latest blog post: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/heres-to-m...

So I recently travelled to Belgium for the Too Mad to be True conference. Here is a goofy and poorly-edited video clip of my adventures www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PrF...

hello Bluesky people - I've just deactivated my account on the other platform, after mainly avoiding it for years. Starting from scratch here and will be posting links to my writing and events and to my work with the Mad Insight project. #newstart #madpride #hello