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 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,…

  • 20 years since Power, Interest and Psychology was published

    Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress, by David Smail, was published twenty years ago this month. It started life as an internet publication, Power, Responsibility and Freedom. David was attracted by the possibilities the internet afforded, of being freed from the constraints of profit and copyright, and also that…

  • Welfare cuts aren’t just cruel, they’re irrational

    An excellent, thoughtful and angry article from Grace Blakeley, highlighting the flaws and false economies in Rachel Reeves’ plans to expand welfare cuts. https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/welfare-cuts-arent-just-cruel-theyre?r=1bljal&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

  • Disability, Work and Starmer’s Cruel Cuts

    Powerful blog by John Cromby dismantling the arguments for the benefits cuts. A timely counter to recent troll attempts to claim that critcs of psychiatry are supporting and facilitating the government’s actions. The best way forward is tackling the poverty and inequality that drives people to despair in the first place – not depriving them…

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