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[Save Mental Health @SaveMHUK]

Our cancellation survey has now closed.
A big 'thank you' to all those who took part. Thanks to you we can start to understand the effects of cancel culture on mental health.
We are grateful to @SpeechUnion and everyone who helped us promote the survey.

[Critical Therapy Antidote @TherapyAntidote]

On the Solid Ground Podcast, CTA Co-Directors Christine Sefein-Wolk and Dr. Michael Olan discuss the potential harms that can arise when clinical work becomes shaped by ideology rather than curiosity, humility, and genuine inquiry.

Michael also explores an often-overlooked reality: therapists themselves can be harmed when ideological frameworks replace clinical thinking, especially when they need therapy in a politicized field.

🎙️ Full Episode on YouTube - The Radical Center

#Psychology #Psychotherapy #MentalHealth #CriticalTherapyAntidote @JLeslieElliott

[Critical Therapy Antidote @TherapyAntidote]

What happens when language stops describing reality and starts creating it?
Bret Alderman talks to Jaco van Zyl and Michael Olan on the CTA podcast:
@DrBretAlderman @JLeslieElliott @ProfJonMills @ThoughtfulTs
https://t.co/Tx02KlYsED

[Critical Therapy Antidote @TherapyAntidote]

What happens when a theory becomes a "skeleton key," claiming that it is capable of explaining everything?

In this upcoming CTA conversation, Michael Olan, Jaco van Zyl, and Dr. Bret Alderman discuss postmodern thought, language, power, and the uneasy feeling that can arise when a framework claims to absorb every contradiction.

Based in part on themes from Dr. Alderman's chapter in Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology (ed. Jon Mills).

Full episode out now on YouTube.

#Psychology #Philosophy #Postmodernism #CriticalTherapyAntidote @DrBretAlderman @ryanMcRogers @JLeslieElliott @Jaco_v_Z @TherapyFirstOrg @SaveMHUK @ProfJonMills

[Committee for Academic Freedom @ComAcFreedom]

🚨 Following tip-offs from supporters, CAF has intervened with both a prestigious UK university and a leading learned society over harassment frameworks that misstate the law and risk chilling lawful speech.

In slightly different ways, both presented harassment as though it could be determined largely from the complainant’s perspective, while omitting two key elements of the statutory test: the wider circumstances of the case and whether it is reasonable for the conduct to have had the alleged effect.

And we know from our casework where that leads: vexatious complaints about perfectly lawful speech, and investigation and disciplinary processes that too often become the punishment.

We have decided not to name either institution because, in both cases, we are engaging constructively and hope to secure the changes necessary to bring their materials into legal and regulatory compliance while better safeguarding freedom of expression and protected belief.

If you’re an academic, student, or member of the wider academic community and have encountered similar training materials, conduct codes or policies, CAF can offer advice or, where appropriate, make representations on your behalf. Contact us in confidence at: [email protected]

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

https://t.co/1zDvq9mqiT

[Dr. Dr. P: A "dreadful, middle-aged woman" @Psychgirl211]

Hi X

I'm looking to collate and publish my articles as a book.

I'm not sure how to go about doing this.

Can anyone assist?

If so, please DM me.

Thank you.

Dr P.

(Please Rx)

[Dr. Dina McMillan 🇺🇸 @drdina1]

This week on “Heart & Mind with Dr. Dina McMillan” we’re going to be looking at the dangerous behaviors underlying the “Tickle vs Giggle” case in Australia that just removed everyone’s right to state verifiable facts and women’s rights to single sex spaces of any kind. (See @salltweets and @goodfoodgal, @Katherine_deves). The episode is going to be called “The War on Reality: Compelled Speech, Suppressed Facts and the Making of a Controlled Population”.
The issues at critical for ALL of us, wherever we live. Please join us LIVE on Tuesday evening, 8PM Eastern Time (in the US), 10 AM in Australia! We’ll be here on X (@drdina1, @naomirwolf) AND on Rumble, Daily Clout, Facebook (the Daily Clout page) and GETTr.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

I could not agree more. And the obsession with victimhood has completely destroyed higher education. We think that students are victimized by being exposed to ideas with which they disagree. And everyone who is not a white male is, by definition, a victim.

https://t.co/niDvSKN6Us

[Dr John Barry @MalePsychology]

This is an important finding - therapy works less well for men than women for self-harm.

Great to see the @BPSOfficial guidance cited as identifying likely improvements. It was authored by myself and @SeagerMJ, but with a huge amount of useful input from the BPS membership 🙏

[Save Mental Health @SaveMHUK]

Mental health professionals should read Carrie's account of her experiences with their services and learn from them. Well done Carrie for speaking out. So pleased that things have worked out well for you.

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

https://t.co/cUbNMFwaic

[Stella O'Malley @stellaomalley3]

This account by @cwestonclark is harrowing. It’s also funny and unutterably sad.

If you need convincing that the mental health industry has lost out way, then read this and come back to me

I hope Carrie writes a book

https://t.co/3aMXVe3Dc2

[James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo]

Here is another paper in a psychology journal that won't improve patient mental health.

[Critical Therapy Antidote @TherapyAntidote]

Moral Narcissim & Deep Envy: Harnessing Psychology for Revolutionary Ends
A discussion with Solid Ground and CTA
https://t.co/wTi4ZbynbW

[Critical Therapy Antidote @TherapyAntidote]

Very emotional moment from @naomieppsbest .

In this effort to speak honestly about what many clinicians and professionals have quietly witnessed, we have encountered people of remarkable integrity. Naomi is one of them.

What is striking is not hatred, extremism, or cruelty — but the extraordinary social cost attached to deviation from ideological consensus. In this clip, Naomi reflects on losing relationships, fearing reputational consequences within her community, and having serious conversations with her family before publicly speaking up at all.

And yet she spoke anyway.

One of the hardest parts of this work is knowing that sometimes we cannot fully protect the people who step forward. We can offer support. We can offer friendship, community, conversation, and an audience willing to listen carefully. But we cannot always shield people from ostracization, reputational attacks, or the quiet social penalties that can follow dissent.

That reality hurts.

But courage does seem to be contagious. People like Naomi remind others that it is still possible to speak honestly, remain compassionate, and refuse to surrender one's conscience entirely to fear.

We need more people like her in the field — not outside of it.

#MentalHealth #Psychology #CriticalTherapyAntidote @ryanMcRogers @DiogenesInExile @OTI_USA @pgarfieldjaeger @PamelaParesky @slsatel @DrBretAlderman @nafeesalamphd @trgolden @anthony_rispo @KevWaldman @JamesEsses @TherapyFirstOrg @drdrew @DrPhil @JillianMichaels @jordanbpeterson @DrDaniS @JamesLNuzzo

[Matilda Gosling @matildagosling]

What happens when we become convinced that being right makes us morally good, and that people who disagree must be morally bad?

This week’s piece looks at moral blindspots among people and institutions that perceive themselves to be good.

In which I pick on the (in)aptly named Good Law Project.

[Ben Sears @BJ_Sears]

Considerable time and money is being spent delivering well-meaning wellbeing programmes in schools. Such programmes sound nice and make teachers feel good, but evidence of efficacy is often weak at best and many are actively making children less happy, healthy and resilient.

[Joanna Williams @jowilliams293]

By me on the slow death of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion https://t.co/RPf87loBca

[Stella O'Malley @stellaomalley3]

In this I set out a comparison between Sex-Affirming Care and Gender-Affirming Care.
These two approaches rest on very different assumptions about the patient, the body, and the role of therapy.

https://t.co/2shfmMjeun

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Graham Linehan should never have been dragged through the courts in the first place.

The real scandal is a system that wastes time on litigious nonsense driven by professional activists while serious crime goes unpunished.

We need to kill cancel culture. Free speech cannot survive if the process becomes the punishment.

This is why I asked Toby Young to review the laws that are stifling free speech so the next Conservative government can put an end to this wasting of our resources.

[Dr. Dina McMillan 🇺🇸 @drdina1]

As you know, I face fierce opposition because I try to be as objective as possible. Not easy for a social scientist with colleagues who refuse to look beyond the Approved Narrative. I want to fix persistent social issues. Impossible while we refuse to identify them.
I'm a fan of elephants, but not the ones in the room.