Dr Craig Joyce

Educational & Child Psychologist 🧠| Ψ| 📖 Tweets on psychology, psychotherapy, psychodynamic & psychoanalytic thinking. Views expressed are my own.

[Mental Health Foundation @mentalhealth]

It’s important for students to look after themselves and their wellbeing during their time at university. 💜

We have made a blog with some tips to help them support their mental health and navigate university. You can check it out now on our website: https://t.co/nwCKjD6m9S

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

8 myths about psychoanalytic therapy*

(If they taught you any this in your training, your instructors didn’t know what they were talking about. Sorry.)

❌Therapist is largely silent
❌Therapist is a stone-faced blank screen
❌Therapist doesn’t express opinions/judgments about what patient says
❌Therapist never discloses their own emotional reactions
❌Therapy is about repressed memories
❌The main focus is sex and aggression
❌Breakthroughs happen in a dramatic emotional catharsis
❌Therapies go on endlessly

Yes, these are myths. Every one of them. I’m sorry if you believed whoever told you any of these things. I’m especially sorry if they were people you looked up to.

*adapted from Glen Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“I'm not different from a washing machine that spins when you press the button—except I spin words”

Response from chatGPT after I pretended to be schizophrenic and it said it cared about me. Like any good paranoid schizophrenic, I caught the deception*

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“Until you make your unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
—CG Jung

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Hollywood is on fire , yet still deniers clutch at straws to blame this on anything other than the real problem – climate breakdown . I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads to take the fight to the companies who continue to exploit our fragile planet https://t.co/Yxjx9DoYMu

[Mental Health Innovations @MHI_Charity]

For many of us, Christmas isn’t always the jolly time that we see on social media and TV. It can be a time of feeling alone, whether you’re missing someone, feeling the pressure to have a good time, or surrounded by people you don’t feel you belong with. These tips can help 💜

[BPS DECP @DECPOfficial]

DECP’s @drcynthia_pinto on why we need more EPs to be trained and the changes needed in EP service delivery so that there can be more EP focus on early intervention and more equitable access to EPs for CYP .

https://t.co/THQaeBQgck

#twittereps #psychologymatters @BPSOfficial

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

@Thomashornall Talk about generalist and reductive. How mind numbingly ignorant and narrow.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

"Therapy has become less and less professional and more paraprofessional" (4:45)

"Training has devolved to the point where students get out into practice & they don't know how to swim & so they grab onto whatever weekend workshop serves as a life preserver" (6:21)

—Lou Cozolino

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

✅Narcissistic personality
✅Borderline personality
✅Histrionic personality

Want to know what they’re really about?

Here’s my chapter, “The Personality Syndromes” (Oxford University Press, 2022)

It’s written for professionals but readable by anyone https://t.co/lsj0R9DH54

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

I greatly appreciated hearing about mental health and wellbeing from athletes whom so many in the nation look up to. Mental health continues to carry significant stigma, particularly for men. Huge Congratulations on your wins! @adam_peaty @kim_woods_95

#mentalhealth #Paris2024

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

@DrFreyaEP Thank you! The work is a challenge and, in the current climate, every little helps.

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

Join our growing team!

Creative, inclusive, with many opportunities to develop and shape your practice. Included is a host of benefits and a highly competitive salary. Get in touch if you’d like a chat about the roles: https://t.co/RDrIsttLGq

[Mind @MindCharity]

Had to strain your ears to hear any mention of mental health in the #ITVDebate just now? Us too. This has to change as we near the #GeneralElection

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

Dangerous, reductive, jingoism. Young people have suffered enough through a global recession, the loss of the EU, a global pandemic, and now they want to throw them into training for war? They should throw themselves in and rid us of their stupidity.

[Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag]

Disaster Revisionism like this is really really dangerous

[Dr Chris Moore @DrChrisMooreEP]

When people claim trauma-informed practice leads to no rules, no consequences & total chaos, it can tell us where they’re at. Some are stressed. Some misunderstand. Some are wary of change. Some are used to doing what was done to them. And some prefer to stick with fear and shame

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

“We are in a situation where some adolescents are very legitimately experiencing mental health crises, without decent treatment, while others are inaccurately describing typical developmental stress with the language of disorder.”

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

@StevenHughes129 @KerryFi72237054 @garethkthomas It is hard to fill a cup that is already full…

[Dr Craig Joyce @DrCraigJoyce]

@KHSHead @KHSWarwick Congratulations, Taya!

[Dr Dan O'Hare @edpsydan]

Hi #twittereps

@AdrianneLReid and I are undertaking research exploring bullying within the EP profession

We are seeking as many qualified EPs as possible to complete our survey.

Please consider participating

Survey and further info here: https://t.co/v9nuq3mQNk

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