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Adverse psychological effects of ECT: Journal of Mental Health: Vol 8, No 1 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Coverage of our ECT survey (plus usual minimising, irresponsible nonsense from usual ECT advocates) in medscape...read by over 3 million ECT: Life-Saving Treatment or Outdated Therapy? medscape.com/viewarticle/ec…

It is truly refreshing to hear someone as Jeffrey Sachs laying bare the brutal facts.....

This is the most unfiltered exposure of Israeli war crimes you will ever hear. Professor Sachs explicitly calls out Israel as a rogue, insane regime committing mass murder and genocide in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran with full US complicity. The world must stop this madness.

Great to present at the critical psychiatry conference today at UCL in London. In the q&a I addressed the co-option of critical ideas by government to justify inhumane cuts to disability. Some of my thoughts below 👇🤓

Psychiatrists and psychologists on X who attempt to use antipsychiatry as a dirty term are self-appointed victims. If they did their jobs, there wouldn't be people like me. Every time they say antipsychiatrist or antipsychiatry, they're actually saying "I've failed."

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is. I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others. If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy. If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy. If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it. It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume. Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” And that’s the part that should chill us. Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform? Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress. Now the mask is off. Now we know. And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand. – Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

In case you missed it. @SkyNews interview with Former NATO Dep Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe didn't go the way they expected. #IranWar

Wilcox nails it. Who are Labor anymore?

@AlboMP when you use highly emotive language such as 'contempt' 'discusted' 'grub' or 'difficult' (about an Australian of the year) you are raising the temperature, not taking it down. That's not leadership.

Psychiatrist THOMAS SZASZ: “we don’t have an epidemic of mental illness, we have an epidemic of psychiatry.” “It’s not science. Psychiatry is politics and economics. Behavior control is not science nor medicine.” “It’s all a disease. No free will, it’s all chemicals. No self-discipline. No self-control.” “The chemical imbalance meshes very well with the idea that you simply give a drug which restores balance. It’s a story. A mythology. A fable.” “This is not psychiatry. It’s a psychiatrization of the whole culture.”

Can the royal family survive this? JonathanPie.com

Risk Redux? Therapeutic Risk Taking and the Role of Supported Decision Making in Mental Health Settings - Hamer - 2026 - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in… @IJMHN

@NZBreakers Thrilling game win with @Adelaide36ers this evening. Both teams should be proud. Quality basketball @NBL

tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10… Thanks to Prof Baldinger-Melich for graciously allowing us a right of reply to her editorial in Int. J. Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. @PsychRecovery @MITUKteam @lifeafterect @christophlane @JDaviesPhD @RichardBentall @UEL_News @UELPsychLondon

@profbensaul @MelissaSweetDr It is troubling to see politicians, even our own PM @AlboMP punching down on these women who were likely lied to or coerced into going to Syria. Many were brought home under the Morrison government and the same should be done now, without the blaming language and hysteria.

At least 23 Australian children stranded in Syria are victims of ISIS terrorism, violence and institutional child abuse. Both major Australian political parties oppose helping them return to safety in Australia. This is deeply un-Australian abc.net.au/news/2026-02-1…

Queen Grace is at it again, upping her game against Zionists with every word

An excellent essay on how mental health labels obscure the complexity of human beings and 'can become self-fulfilling spells' theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/…

Important read from @bmj_latest Rising youth suicide rates linked to increased SSRI use. Evidence shows SSRIs heighten suicide risks—re-analyses reveal unreported harms. This underscores why akathisia education is crucial. Suicide prevention programs that ignore akathisia put lives at risk. bmj.com/content/392/bm…"