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'Personal' change (via therapy etc) doesn't occur in some sealed, hermetic realm, untouched & unhampered by the wider social world that may or may not accommodate it. To deny this is to deny reality: whether 'change' is sustained heavily relies upon how it's socially recieved.

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To believe only psychological theory & interventions can bring psychological change is an admission of ideological idleness.

“Vaulting antidepressant prescribing isn't improving the nation’s mental health. In fact, there's now compelling evidence that in many ways it may be worsening it at population level due to rising harms & increasing unnecessary use." My quote👇 https://t.co/kuQqBbt7zs

Similarly, this is exactly what the enterprise of psychiatric diagnosis is about

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1/ People often say that those harmed by prescribed psychiatric treatments “let their harm become their identity” or “need to change their mindset.” This is misleading and shows a profound misunderstanding 🧵

Major problems with this study: -It should've been conducted 30 years ago. - It focuses on 8-12 weeks use (side-effects often worsen over time). - It omits studying many effects including sexual dysfunction, emotional blunting etc - PR spun by @SMC https://t.co/EPLIjUKWNl

“TikTok influencers, some paid by Big Pharma, try to destigmatise antidepressants by reframing them as accessories for enlightened and empowered young women — just another form of self-care.”

“I sometimes used theory to defend myself from the rawness of the patient’s pain” says the psychoanalyst, Irma Brenman Pick, reflecting upon the emotional courage needed to sit with another's suffering (rather than defend against it with precipitous interpretation).

Average people today can buy computer power that, decades ago, only the wealthy could buy and we could use that exact model through out all industries. So, in a few years from now, people could have the same buying power to buy things, a few years ago, only the wealthy could buy.

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.” — Rachel Naomi Remen (1996)

“I wish I had been less preoccupied with being clever, and more with being kind.” - Irvin D. Yalom, reflecting upon his decades of clinical practice.

A defence mechanism I regularly encounter in the therapeutic space (but which's entirely under-theorised) is what I would term 'internalisation bias', wherein somone persistently attributes all difficulties, failures & negative experiences to a perceived internal flaw, defect...

Extremely sad to hear that my previous supervisor, the psychoanalyst, Andrea Sabbadini, has died... A wonderful man and guide. As his obituary beautifully captures: "being a psychoanalyst was never just a job, but central to who he was". 🙏 https://t.co/AfLkJjkNBK

The problem for psychoanalysis isn’t merely one of unclear communication; it’s also its tendency toward indulgent, gratuitous & unnecessarily complex over-theorising. I think P. Bourdieu was right in calling this a symbolic power play: a game to appear exclusive & authoritative.

The misuse of this trope is a serious social problem; I've written much about how it's been used at the macro level to legitimate all manner of dubious social policies, but we are now seeing a rise in similarly harmful micro uses.

Apparantly, banning smart phones in schools may be bad for for some pupil's mental health.... At this point, is there any social ill we can’t justify with the 'mental health' argument? https://t.co/dxaVp4ldNt

It's incumbent on every mental health professional to listen deeply to critiques of their profession - to even seek them out. To engahe with them non-defensively & to see what happens. We are very poor at this. The prickly/defensive (i.e. insecure) professional is a huge red flag

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The call for social justice is a call for us, as a collective, to tackle the obstacles inhibiting people from realising their potential. The obstacles we call injustices exist externally (inequality, poverty etc) & internally (internalised oppression) why is this controversial?

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are among the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. https://t.co/BFH8q9dGA6

That it's normal for nearly a quarter of our entire adult population to be prescribed a psychiatric drug in any given year.....

Congratulations psychiatry, you’ve done it again. All the raver kids are walking around with watermelon and berry flavored ketamine nasal bottles. I have seen at least 30 people with them today alone at a music festival. One told me it helps with his depression.