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.

  • 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…

  • The Wisdom of Patients

    Another theme in Team Of One, the debut novel by Midlands Psychology Group member, Penny Priest, is wisdom. Some think protagonist, Frances Fisher, is ignorant and behind the times, simply because she doesn’t think the latest therapy, Zen Psyonics, is all its cracked up to be. But in many ways, she is wise to be…

  • The Importance of Embodiment

    One of the themes in Team Of One, the debut novel by Midlands Psychology Group member, Penny Priest, is the link between body and mind, between physical and mental health. As touched on in the interview below, ‘If exercise is your medicine and you lose the ability to exercise, what on earth do you do?’…

  • ‘What did David Smail really think?’

    In this interview, which first appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of the Journal of Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling, David Smail talks to Paul Moloney about his views on people and their environments, together with reflections on psychotherapy, counselling and psychology. Abstract: For psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors, claims of professional expertise have led to…

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