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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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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NHS talking therapies update
At a time when the UK government is again enlisting mental health services to get people back into work, this update on NHS talking therapies shows a continuing picture of high attrition and arguably poor outcomes. NHS talking therapies updatehttps://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/does-the-nhs-talking-therapies-service-have-an-attrition-problem
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Musa al-Gharbi on woke
In this interview, blog editor Elena van Stee chats with Musa al-Gharbi’s new book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. The book explores the emergence of a new “woke” elite and the hidden ways they actively benefit from and perpetuate the inequalities they vocally oppose. They also discuss Musa’s…
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Jonathan Cook on tooth-fairy politics
This piece by Jonathan Cook is perhaps the perfect compliment to the Dissident article; it’s been clear for a long time that the UK is a dystopia, enabled by pretend liberal media. Tooth fairy: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth?r=1bljal&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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