Manchester United have appointed an interim manager, to take charge before appointing a caretaker manager, who will take charge before appointing a full-time manager - what? 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

"Study 3 provides support for a causal effect from increased fruit intake to the increased likelihood of anxiety" 🤔 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ifs.org.uk/publications... “More than half of the rise in disability benefit claims since the pandemic is due to more claims relating to mental health” Well, is it (1) overdiagnosis (2) greater awareness (3) normal -ve emotions being classed as MH problems or (4) too loose diagnostic categories

I’m now working on a new 4th Edition of my textbook Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback Any new topics? Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years

Had coffee and cake at a local cafe this morning then Sigmund Freud appeared on my cappuccino 😮 - the id be with you 😁

Spotted this today - why can’t they just put a bollard in front of it 🤔

"Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results support the view that ERP can be tailored to treat disgust symptoms and highlight the relevance of evaluative conditioning, inhibitory learning, and CBT" ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363

"Psychotherapy practitioners are curiously complacent about the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence competition. Their passivity reflects ignorance about the power of chatbots, denial of their likely impact and arrogance regarding their capacities" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"We describe 10 generic competences that can support therapists to deliver the strongest possible outcomes in CBT across different forms of psychopathology" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The mainstream strategy [in developing new psychiatric diagnoses] has been conservative and iterative, retaining current nosology until something better emerges. However, this has led to stagnation. " www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"AI tools appeared to be accurate in detecting, classifying, and predicting the risk of mental health conditions as well as predicting treatment response " www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Humans only evolved language once Why? Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively www.newscientist.com/article/2484...

"The interplay between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and OCD symptoms depends on the degree to which people with OCD exhibit a fear of losing control and engage in transdiagnostic response styles (e.g., depressive rumination)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Something we've always suspected - the fear factor! Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview "Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

"When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? " journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is a very sad story - academics get promoted up the management chain but are often never good senior managers - we can probably expect more stories like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The global pooled prevalence estimate for Complex PTSD was 6.2% - prevalence is highest in clinical, domestic and/or sexual abuse, and military samples" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Inflammation appears to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of suicidal behavior, offering promising avenues for biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies" annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

Thousands of UK students caught cheating using AI Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/FE4FCnONBc...

"High rates of trauma exist in those with eating disorders" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Early onset, depression as the polarity of the first mood episode, lifetime suicide attempts, comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders, and family history of bipolar disorder were associated with significantly longer undiagnosed or untreated bipolar disorder" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"The studies suggest that ECT causes autobiographical memory loss in patients with depression. Results also suggest that lost memories are not regained." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"CBT is an effective and acceptable treatment for sleep problems in people with and at risk of psychosis" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Remembering my parents Ray and Betty on the anniversary of VE Day - Both made their own personal contributions to winning the war - And let’s not forget why it was fought - to preserve democracy, freedom and justice for ALL people

I’m sure Donald Trump will have something totally inappropriate to say about an American becoming the new pope ☹️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

"Small to large effect sizes were found for positive, negative, and affective symptoms. " www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Using models spanning over 18 years, associations between religious-service attendance and mental health were mostly nonsignificant" "The results suggest a need to question the assumption that religious-service attendance provides mental health benefits" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Clinically significant change analysis showed that 57% to 77% of participants were categorised as recovered from GAD 2 to 8 years post-CBT" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Our data provide little evidence that relapse has a detrimental effect in the long term in people with schizophrenia and recurrent psychosis." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

Let’s be clear about this - Trump made promises to the American electorate that he was never going to be able to keep - this is just one of them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Implementation of the Zero Suicide model was associated with a reduction in suicide attempt rates in 3 of 4 health systems jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Our findings stress the need for addressing social functioning when treating hoarding. Depression, integrally related to hoarding and social functioning, also needs to be considered." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The identification of specific dysfunctional beliefs associated with negative symptoms is essential for the development of precision-based cognitive-behavioral interventions in schizophrenia" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Relationship between doses of moderate to vigorous physical activity and depression www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The name Nero comes to mind www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jets-o...

Meta have used the LibGen pirated books database to train their AI - That pirated database includes some of my own books - check here to see if your books or journal articles have been ripped off too www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Wow - where did that time go? whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/03/30/e...

This is the worst excuse I’ve ever heard! Justin Welby: I failed to act on abuse scandal as scale was 'overwhelming'

"The study identifies a common source of CBT treatment failure" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"This first meta-analysis on the topic reveals statistically significant employer discrimination towards individuals with psychosis" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does excessive digital media use mimic ADHD symptoms? This editorial examines the rise of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the digital age, suggesting that excessive digital media use may mimic or exacerbate ADHD symptoms www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

R2D2 has hit hard times ☹️

There are 3 people in this photo. One is a true President and currently the leader of the free world. One is drooping and looks like he’s about to take a nap. And one looks a little too excited to be sitting on a couch.