Psynapse

Psynapse (Psychological Services) Ltd - health, clinical and primary care psychology, including CBT and expert witness services, in the North East of England.

[Psynapse @PsynapsePsychol]

@psychsocwatchuk @psychmag @BPSOfficial O no o

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@Amockx2022 Yes

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@Currentreport1 ? Jo I

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

WHY DON'T PALESTINIANS PURSUE THEIR OBJECTIVES BY PEACEFUL MEANS?
They did. The PLO recognised Israel and renounced armed struggle. And what did they get for it? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing. That is what nurtured Hamas and elevated it in the eyes of many Palestinians as the only alternative to a slow genocide under Israel’s Apartheid. https://t.co/u8UAUMfylS

[The Power Threat Meaning Framework @PTMFramework]

The #PTMFramework Committee meeting reported teaching/training sessions to undergraduates, assistant psychologists, CAMHS teams, CMHTs, therapists & family therapists, IAPT services, staff in perinatal, addiction and domestic abuse services, plus many other invitations.

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

If the NHS is unsustainable, how come Sajid Javid wants to move to system like the US insurance-based one which is twice as expensive with poorer outcomes that will leave some without care? Because it'll makes lots of lovely money for him and his mates. That's why.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

"Reducing asylum application backlog would make it harder for Rwanda policy to be cost effective, official analysis suggests"

This is a statistic so perverse it should be banned for indecency.

Deep breath, and let's dive in...

Basically the longer an asylum seeker is trapped in rubbish accommodation unable to work or live anything even approximating a normal life, the more it costs the state.

And the more it costs the state, the more it's "worth" to deter one additional migrant from coming here.

So if the Tories could make asylum seekers cost £1 million each, they could then claim that each additional asylum seeker deterred from coming here "saves" the UK £1 million, because that money won't have to be spent on them.

£10 million each, and the notional saving from deterrence would be £10 million. And so on.

In other words, the ROI of Rwanda as a deterrent only starts to look reasonable if you manage to make each asylum seeker very VERY expensive.

How do you do that? By slowing and slowing and slowing the processing of their application, so that they have to spend years and years and years trapped in a tiny room with a stranger, waiting.

In other words, the less efficient you are, the more your theoretical saving is, because the deterrent effect is worth more.

It's the sickest and most disgusting misuse of statistics I've ever seen, because it "legitimises" the very conscious and deliberate Tory policy to slow application processing down so that the visible backlog of asylum seekers grows and grows and there's an enemy for the RW tabloids to point at and other.

Beyond belief. And yet they are genuinely trying to pass this off as a genius strategy, rather than as a travesty that should see every one of the people responsible for formulating the plan in prison on human rights grounds.
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[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

This is huge.

We now have concrete proof that pure unadulterated corporate greed is the key driver behind the inflation crisis.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

We couldn’t agree with this more.

Please RT if you do too.

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

It feels like we are in limbo waiting for the Tories to go and hoping they don’t destroy too much of our country or steal much more of our money before they go. Am I the only one who feels this?

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

How often it is that a young person’s pain (self-harm; eating problems) is a desperate attack, via the self, on a dysfunctional family, idea, school or wider system; a plea for systemic change. But we rarely see it like that - instead we pathologise them & treat *their* disorder.

[The Power Threat Meaning Framework @PTMFramework]

This graphic is much appreciated by #PTMFramework trainers. Thanks, @Juliet_Young1 !

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Prosecutors don’t “convict” anybody. That would be courts, Greg.

And the figures in the article you quote are bogus, Greg.

And do you *really* think that a government which has created a record court backlog of serious sexual cases is in a position to lecture anybody, Greg?

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

This is one of the most unintentionally baffling pieces of government comms I have ever seen

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

A question for psychiatry: Given the public broadly associates the term 'disease' with some sort of underlying structural/biological pathology, is it not therefore misleading (and so unethical) to use this term publicly to characterise mental health problems?

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

10 years ago, the NHS was scored by experts to be the best health system in the world. Today, it ranks worst in Europe.

The Tories have intentionally driven the NHS to a position of crisis in order to justify accelerating privatisation.

[Chloë Reeves @Chl0eReeves]

The Princess of Wales looks to be launching a sincere & thoughtful campaign, but it's kind of wild that Sure Start was an evidence-based solution to the problems she's raising, was evaluated and found to be wonderfully successful, and we're sort of pretending it wasn't cut.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

One of the justifications for dishing out 10-year prison sentences for peaceful protest is the actions of environmentalists. Last night 292 Tory MPs voted to let water companies keep on dumping sewage in British rivers.

[emily m @maitlis]

Great interview by @TomBrady . This is fundamentally a tragic story of a kid who lost his mother in the most appalling circumstances - and never found the support to emerge from that darkness. #harry

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

“Ministers have asked the NHS pay review body to cap the increase in front line health workers pay to 2% in 2023-24”

So much for all that “independent” boll**** spouted by @RishiSunak and @SteveBarclay