Log Not Blog

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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • The Many Problems with Zen Psyonics

    One of the papers in our recent special issue of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, about the legacy of David Smail, is the piece by Penny Priest. Her paper, The Many Problems with Zen Psyonics, includes selected extracts from her recently publishednovel, Team Of One, to illustrate David Smail’s critique of the…

  • David Smail and his legacy

    More than ten years have passed since David’s death and we miss him dearly. What would he have made of these times? A world coming apart at the seams following more than 40 years of the neo-liberal consensus.  A nominal Labour government assiduously prolonging the harmful ‘austerity’ policies of the previous Conservative government.  The main…

  • The Black Dogs of Glaslyn

    See page 27 of this month’s Asylum Magazine for Paul Moloney’s review of The Black Dogs of Glaslyn, by our friend and former colleague, Guy Holmes. As explained in the background, Guy worked as a clinical psychologist in the NHS for over 25 years. During that time he published three books in collaboration with service…

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