Cat Papastavrou Brooks

Retired from sad, new career in mental health research (@brispophealth @withoutstigma and @ExeterDClin
.) Gay. Often depressed. Wittgenstein stan. S/her

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

Our paper is out on Vulnerability & Violence in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings! Drawing on critiques of vulnerability from the philosophical literature, we argue that staff’s understanding of their relationship with patients rests on a reductive account of vulnerability (link ⬇️)

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@Conortroversial We stilllove the bronze though ngl

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@Dr__Sarmy The GP starting salary in England is £68,974, just FYI.

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@legfuneral @theLDNstandard @RachelSJohnson Exactly!! This exactly, very common after sexual assault/rape and seems (from an outsider perspective) to be a big part of the picture here. Such a horrendous way of framing what happened to her, just think that journalist should never have been the one to report on this, grim...

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@legfuneral @theLDNstandard @RachelSJohnson No exactly!! I was totally dumbfounded by the way she chose to describe it as an "otherwise consensual relationship", it wasn't a relationship which became abusive, it was literally her dealing with the aftermath of sexual abuse from an incredibly powerful man with no resources.

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@theLDNstandard @RachelSJohnson The way this whole article is written is so incredibly incredibly grim and potentially harmful to survivors reading it

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@theLDNstandard @RachelSJohnson Sexual abuse perpetrated by someone you know isn't "the greyest of grey areas", it's the norm for sexual abuse, and if the abuse isn't continuous 24h a day it doesn't make it an "otherwise consensual relationship". If there's abuse in a relationship, it's an abusive relationship.

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

Might as well re-plug the other quali paper I worked on for this, looking at the acceptability of the therapy, which is the other half of this qualitative analysis , led by Abigail Rennick https://t.co/rO356XmqJB

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@JulnesMD @cityalan We teach our medical students that part of their role is to advocate on issues which affect health such as poverty or trauma! It's just wild to think you can separate good science (especially in certain areas) and politics..

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@KonstantinaPou1 @AsylumMagUK It's honestly by far best thing to come through my letterbox by an absolute mile, thanks so much for all you do to make it happen!!

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

Our paper is out on Vulnerability & Violence in Inpatient Psychiatric Settings! Drawing on critiques of vulnerability from the philosophical literature, we argue that staff’s understanding of their relationship with patients rests on a reductive account of vulnerability (link ⬇️)

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@KonstantinaPou1 Oh no, I wish I'd seen it before we wrote the paper!!! Thank you so much, would love to read it.. sounds incredible interesting and important..

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@KonstantinaPou1 Thanks so much, that means a huge amount coming from you. I've learned so much from asylum magazine over the years...

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

@UnlockingBirth Thanks so much Selina! Really appreciate it xx

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

I’m grateful to another one of my best friends, Sumil Thakrar, for really thoughtful, comprehensive and helpfully brutal comments on an early draft, to my excellent colleague Tom Nutting for some very useful and clinically insightful feedback and to our reviewers who were great.

[Cat Papastavrou Brooks @TheBeetleBox]

It’s been incredible getting to work with such brilliant researchers from two very different fields on this paper, who have both shaped my thinking in such significant ways, and to be honest it’s just by far the most joy I’ve had working on something ever.