Jonathan Gadsby

Mental Health Nurse with a PhD, BCU Research Fellow. Founder member of the Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network.

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Just dipping into the Twittersphere. Thx to all those for tweets abt @mickmckeown2016 & my paper on MHN conscientious objection to forced pharmacy. New post on @critmhn gives a bit of background. https://t.co/vYbpAegZxN.

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@DylandelaRivir2 @ClinpsychLucy Right! I try to imagine that every day.

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@MadeInBedlam @TomNwainwright @SameiHuda @pennyb Oh Goodness, I don’t often come on twitter… but please! It was not conceived in a lobby, it was 200000 words of careful and difficult document that took years to write. Read it?

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… and, you know I wouldn’t say this lightly either: I cannot think of a better book written about mental health full stop. 2/2

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I have had a review copy of @nathanfiler’s new book, The Heartland. You know I wouldn’t say this lightly: It is the best thing I have ever read by a mental health nurse… 1/2

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@xCHANGE2019 My huge privilege to read extract from @NaomiAKlein 'Let them Drown' (2016) for #BCUBigRead on #IWD2019. She inspires this MH Nurse 'working in the sacrifice zones' like no other writer.

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@GarySidley’s no-nonsense appraisal of the MHA Review:
https://t.co/YgDyeCKqx7

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@Erythrina5 @ClinpsychLucy @DrAlecGrant @UK_ACP @rcpsych @ahider Is a total mistrust of institutions the road to right-wing libertarianism? Instead, I think we should aim for a libertarianism that has keeps a glimmer of hope for collectivity. And to me that means attacking anti-democratic practice more than attacking institutions.

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@Erythrina5 @ClinpsychLucy @DrAlecGrant @UK_ACP @rcpsych @ahider But education is institutional. So is the legal system. Both contain damaging group-think. Do you want to abolish them? Or reform them?

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@Erythrina5 @ClinpsychLucy @DrAlecGrant @UK_ACP @rcpsych @ahider 2/2 There is no question in my mind that psych is an abusive institution filled with damaging group-think. But are you saying that a room of people can never empower an individual? Never?

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@AnneCooke14 @CCCUAppPsy The only thing that would be more brutal and unfair is not doing it.

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@AnneCooke14 @CCCUAppPsy Hi @AnneCooke14. I teach MHNs a properly critical set of papers and ideas in the 3rd year of their course at Birmingham City Uni. Also undergrad social workers too. They get a solid round up of scientific and political critique of psychiatry, psychology, MHN and the MHA. 1/2

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@AkikoMHart @critmhn Your piece I read this morning is the best thing I have read on it, Akiko. In fact, the main thing I wanted to write was a response to that and your work with Rai. I need more time, but you two are so important to all of us right now.

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I’ve got a new blog on the @critmhn about the MHA Review. Guess what? I'm not all that keen on it. The recommendations read more like tomorrow’s excuses.
https://t.co/7vrELMO2i3

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Spent a very enjoyable afternoon with a class of student social workers exploring the differences between ‘what is wrong with you?’ vs’ what has happened to you?’. #PTMFramework