We are often contacted by people who would like to keep track of our work and our thinking. We sometimes find it hard to keep track with each other as we share articles, videos and podcasts which seem to connect with our work and ideas.
This Log Not Blog page is here so that we can share and log these various sources not just between ourselves in the group, but with other interested people.
Please do get in touch (contact@midpsy.uk) if you have something to share which you think we might be interested in.
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Capitalism is Killing the Future
Grace Blakeley’s latest blog on Substack is a welcome read. Even before considering the call for resistance, readers might note how validating it is to read something which makes so much sense. Not just validating. It’s actually reassuring for any of us to know we’re not the only one. We’re not going mad. What’s happening…
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Psychological therapy in the 21st century NHS
New review of Penny Priest’ novel, Team Of One, by Paul Moloney, for Asylum Magazine.
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The infernal merry go round
The Telegraph posted a headline the other day saying: ‘NHS urges nine million people to get therapy. Health bosses launch mass media campaign amid fears ‘anxiety epidemic’ is fuelling worklessness crisis.’ I mean, where does anyone begin to unpick all that. But we had all this when Lord Layard, in collaboration with the Blair government,…
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Mental health services on the brink
No longer able to continue her work as a consultant clinical psychologist in the NHS, Penny Priest retired in June 2024. Since then she has been struck by just how many other clinical psychologists are feeling rather desperate. And it’s not just psychologists: Penny reviews On The Brink, by psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Penelope Campling. https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/bearing-witness-reality
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Broken by the system
In the latest issue of Asylum magazine, our colleague and friend, clinical psychologist Guy Holmes, shares his experience of being made ill by the very same system which is supposed to help those in distress.
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Mike Fox and the Poverty Tourists
Here’s a blast from the past – from the West Midlands Critical and Community Psychology Conference in Birmingham in 2003. It’s a reminder that ‘for you [psychologists] to help people, you’ve got to understand them, and to understand them you’ve got to know where they’re coming from.’ https://midpsy.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mike-fox-and-the-poverty-tourists.pdf
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