Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake.
Dec 21, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 I've just published a new article titled 'The Personality Disorder Shield.' It explores how clinicians sometimes unknowingly use a 'PD shield' to avoid addressing trauma, instead projecting their own emotional challenges onto patients. 😮#TraumaNotPD tinyurl.com/3ptdxc46
This article was for the in-house magazine of the British Psychoanalytic Council, so I’ve used psychoanalytic language to engage and hopefully persuade its audience of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists #TraumaNotPD! Below is the essence of the argument in tweets.
Apr 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
‘Concerns over the prescription of #clozapine for people diagnosed with “BPD” in private locked psychiatric units’ tinyurl.com/2p9akujp
Important. Clozapine is frequently thrown at people whose cases are seen as hopeless without a full range of interventions having been tried
Many people are diagnosed with PD and left languishing for years in assessment and treatment units meant for a few month stay. I hear of clozapine, yes, bur also people kept in restraints all day.ALL DAY. Levels of abuse are high, families nearly always too far to visit regularly
Jun 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
To say my heart is with Black service users, esp those incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals which are terrifying at the best of time let alone now. If we even think of trauma-informed care, your voices have to be central alongside more funding for Black MH grassroots orgs 1/2
The history of mental health provision has so often been retraumaticing adding to the legacy of transgenerational structural racism - yet more institutional abuse in the form of traumagenic increased sectioning levels and overmedication not something healing.
Apr 4, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
There are no doubt some brill clinicians at #BIGSPD19 + more importantly service users bravely speaking out. But what appears to be missing is consideration of how the lack of services +care for the majority of patients that is lamented is produced by ideas of ‘BPD’ it promotes.
Rather than have conferences for specific diagnoses,which exclude as many people as they include but make attendees feel like vanguards, we need whole workforce, trans-diagnostic commitment to depth help for those experiencing the kind of sphlintering anxiety that can wreck life.
