Jonathan Souray

EarlyInterventionInPsychosis advocate Hon SenProgramme Coordinator @PsychosisPhenom @CNWLNHS. Former London CRG EIP, EI ServManager @WLMHT BioPsychoSocSpiritual

[Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social) @acgrundy]

🚨 See my recent work:

'Backstory'
https://t.co/xAJAfHdPqS

The traumas of hostile voice-hearing in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony
https://t.co/ieyoImWcaj

Moments of regaining 'insight' - an unrecognised trauma
https://t.co/hPv5woPe8Z

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

I repeat - it is definitely possible to get better at risk assessments and risk management. We have to keep working at it and feed our findings into better front line MDT staff awareness, skill sets, and care and treatment delivery. @CNWLNHS #EACBT

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

Sahara Ghida (MSci UCL) showed @EABCT Conf '26, that in FEP patients' auditory hallucinations (n=460), containing an imaginary harmer, over 25% had voices that causally contributed to real physical harm - self19%, neglect10%, harm to others6%. So, these need assessment! @CNWLNHS

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

It is definitely possible to get better at more granular risk assessments and risk management. We have to keep working at it and feed our findings into better front line MDT staff awareness, skill sets, and care and treatment delivery.

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

Alisia Maciu [MSci UCL] presented @EABCT2026 Conf. She demonstrated that all FEP patients' auditory hallucinations should be assessed for imaginary harmers in the patients in voice experience, in the 4 clusters of physical, social, psychological & supernatural harm types.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

The PPP team presented x3 at the #EABCT annual conference this year - Brussels. Check out @PsychosisPhenom some of our significant findings - shown by our great students & our Lead Asst Psychologist. The more we understand the better placed we are to help reduce suffering.

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

The PPP team EABCT 2026 Brussels

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

Alysia Sweeney (Asst Psychol) showed @EABCT Conf that 1hrs multidisciplinary staff training significantly improved knowledge & attitude towards personalisation & cultural competence about prevalence, patterns, & distribution of delusional themes & their psychosocial consequences.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

@BBCr4today Note: during yr helpful features on Dementia/Alzheimers etc, that not only carers/professionals are listening BUT ALSO those w recent/early diagnosis - having to come to terms w an horizon drawing ever closer, a potentially very frightening place. Sensitivity please.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

#bbcantisocial The ADHD prog guests did not point out that different ppl w clusters of 'ADHD' traits, can experience and/or demonstrate them for different reasons! We are all mixes of biological, psychological, & environmental derivatives of our behaviours.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

Why should this be controversial?

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Letters from psychiatrists supporting concerns about psychiatric diagnosis: It is 'often unnecessary to fit somebody into a diagnostic category to offer them appropriate help' https://t.co/2JuNKwSl70

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

The PPP carried out two talks and one poster at this recent international conference in the USA. Here is the poster: Command Auditory Hallucination Content - towards more precision focused CBT interventions

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

This last week Dr Raune led a PPP team of four in New Orleans; presenting three UCL projects @the59th Association of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies Annual Conf. Findings indicate the need to target command & positive auditory hallucinations in new voice hearers' treatments.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

PPP paper published in latest edition of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

Our latest paper: Auditory hallucination granularity illuminated. A comprehensive review:
The Content & Topography of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Adult Psychosis Patients: What Does a Voice Say, & How Does It Say It? An Umbrella Review and Collation

https://t.co/Bf5Ahlu8Fz

[Michelle Reittinger @UpsideofBipolar]

I've observed a concerning trend among some critics of traditional psychiatry: a belief that they've discovered the singular solution to mental health treatment, dismissing any differing perspectives as invalid. It's crucial that we shift away from this divisive mindset. Instead, let's embrace the diverse array of effective approaches and collaborate to create meaningful solutions for those grappling with mental illness. Working together is key to making a real difference in their lives.

[Claire Murdoch @ClaireCNWL]

Somewhere to live, someone to love, something to do. First…..somewhere to live. Fundamental. From a solid foundation of a home study, work, health, happiness, community, can flourish.

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

@AlysiaSweeney & @DrDavidRaune today presented @CNWLNHS Annual Therapies Conference on the epidemiology of psychosocial consequences of delusions in early course psychosis & how MDT staff's knowledge & attitudes can be improved. (Thanks to Ryan Kemp, Chris Whitely & Ali Modaresi)

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

The PPP explores clinical significance and consequences of delusions & hallucinations, from a lived experience perspective. Recent work presented @ annual conferences: @EABCT Belfast '21, Barcelona '22, Turkey '23; @BABCP London'22. +various publications, see below. @IEPAnetwork

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

Today @EABCT in Belgrade, Anna Callahan presented this PPP project. It potentially highlights the silent suffering of many patients whose auditory hallucination features are routinely missed in clinical assessments, & so facilitates development of more specific CBT interventions.

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

The tragic and shocking June 2023 Notts case, @BBCPanorama tonight, bears out that the under assessment of the phenomenology prevents more tailored preventative care.

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

Lumping into the label "paranoid schizophrenia" tends to lose detail needed for personalised psychological management & treatment. More research needed otherwise this type of event will continue to be repeated - unless we just apply high sedation (effectively) and/or high walls!

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

The shocking Notts case & @BBCPanorama tonight underline again why a large slice of the huge pharma research funds needs reallocation to identify psychological causes, risk indicators, & effective treatments. But: @PsychosisPhenom will continue to address as others do @ReadReadj

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

The shocking Notts case & @BBCPanorama tonight underline again why a large slice of the huge pharma research funds needs reallocation to identify psychological causes, risk indicators, & effective treatments. But: @PsychosisPhenom will continue to address as others do @ReadReadj

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

Towards improving risk assessment and risk management within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services. @rcpsych @BPSOfficial @IEPAnetwork

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

Towards improving risk assessment and risk management within Early Intervention in Psychosis Services. @rcpsych @BPSOfficial @IEPAnetwork

[The PPP @PsychosisPhenom]

We are pleased to announce that our recent quality improvement paper @CNWLNHS on the role of Auditory Hallucinations influencing and retrospectively predicting Physical Harm in our EIPS has now been published and is available to read! Check it out here: https://t.co/OoxvuFz8KC

[Jonathan Souray @JRSouray]

The Biden issue: It's not about age; let's not make that simplistic mistake. It's about cognitive acuity & stamina [#NoToAgism]. How is he now & is he ready for a gruelling further 4 yrs '25/29, surely to be a grave strategic period in global politics w ramifications for us all?