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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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…
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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?’…
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‘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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What if being miserable isn’t an illness?
John Cromby’s new blog on ‘Mad In The UK’ critiques the contemporary politics of psychiatric diagnosis, by engaging with issues including: What does a consistent critique of psychiatric diagnosis look like? What is the scientific status of depression (and other common psychiatric conditions): are they supported by good evidence? Does using diagnostic…
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Gary Stevenson’s 2025 taster
Some of us in the Midlands Psychology Group are looking forward to hearing Gary live on tour in Nottingham at the end of January. His latest Youtube video sets out reflections on 2024 and plans for 2025. He doesn’t need a crystal ball. He just needs more people to listen to him about the crisis…
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Team Of One by Penny Priest, out now.
The Psychologist magazine did a special issue a while back on communicating science and the power of narratives over scientific texts. It’s an idea I have become increasingly interested in, especially after seeing how a story about the evidence can be more powerful than the evidence itself, as in the case of the ITV series,…
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