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.

  • 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…

  • The Psychology of Economic Inequality

    Clinical Psychologist, Jim Orford, has just published this book, which aims to answer the question, from a psychological perspective, of how economic inequality is tolerated. He asks why we are putting up with such high levels of income and wealth inequality? It’s also OPEN ACCESS, so free to everyone! Six Reasons Why We Are Failing…

  • Progetto di manifesto per una psicologia sociale materialista del disagio

    The Midlands Psychology Group are pleased to announce the translation of their Manifesto for a Social Materialist Psychology into Italian. Psychologist and activist, Livia Lepetit, became interested in the work of David Smail whilst in London in 2019. Keen to disseminate critical thinking on mental health, as well as strengthening networks of likeminded groups and…

  • What are service evaluations actually for?

    What are service evaluations actually for? This month Clinical Psychology Forum, the UK profession’s in-house journal, published ‘a service evaluation of a dialectical behavioural therapy-informed skills group for community mental health service users with complex emotional needs’. The authors’ rationale, in the context of staff shortages, burnout, recruitment difficulties, long waiting lists and limited funding,…

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