Anti Woke Psych

@swtrains_watch @SW_Help @Heidi_Labour @allpartyrail If you have any spare time …

@swtrains_watch @SW_Help @Heidi_Labour @allpartyrail I guess we have the valuable opportunity of learning why the UK can’t manage to provide public services effectively in either the public or private sector 🤬

We’ve received a response from the ORR - and it raises more questions than answers. On overcrowding, fares, staffing & buses: “not our remit.” So responsibility sits with the DfT… which now runs SWR. Who’s actually holding the railway to account? 🤔 @SW_Help @Heidi_Labour 🔽

“The more narcissistic version of masochistic personality dynamics, sometimes called moral masochism, applies to people who equate self-renunciation and suffering with virtue. Self-esteem is tied to deprivation and suffering: the greater the deprivation, the greater the sense of virtue. Such people hold the conviction, often unconscious, that their suffering makes them morally superior. They may self-righteously seek to demonstrate their moral superiority to others… Moral masochism is relatively prevalent in the mental health and other helping professions. These professions offer ample opportunities for self-sacrifice, for example, by attending to others’ needs at the expense of one’s own. Disavowed sadism is often revealed through intolerance, harshly critical attitudes, or outright aggression toward others who fail the moral masochist’s purity tests. Thus, moral superiority, self-righteousness, self-sacrifice, and sadistic cruelty can coexist.” —N McWilliams & J Shedler, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, 3rd edition (PDM-3; 2026)

Seems like there's confusion around what intrapsychic means. Intrapsychic =/= blame the victim. Precisely the opposite. Exploring the intrapsychic could help us understand how the patient came to think unconsciously that they caused what happened.

Therapy is generally not glamorous. It can be draining, boring, irritating, and subversive. It can make you zone out completely when you return home from work and want to stare at a wall. Still love it, however.

Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen. All too often, they’re right. Crime, disorder and welfare dependency all point to the same problem: a country where rules exist, but no consequences follow. We must change this.

"Every quality long-term study in this field that measured objective outcomes such as employment, psychiatric comorbidities, suicidality, and criminality demonstrates that medical transition offers poor outcomes." However you assess it: medical transition is not healthcare.

Psychoanalysis & Homosexuality: A Broadside. So I'm interested - as most clinicians hopefully are - in the origin of heterosexual and homosexual orientations, and esp in what interactional-developmental, as opposed to merely innate-maturational, influences there may be here.🧵

I'm a Clin Psychol in the UK, but struggle to 'identify as' one. For this there are several reasons, the main one being a use to which we're often encourage to put formulation... ie developing and sharing a formulation of the therapy patient's difficulties with them. This...

the patient does not just project into an analyst, but instead patients are quite skilled at projecting into particular aspects of the analyst. — Irma Brenman Pick Working Through in the Countertransference

Want Psychology to have policy making credibility? Then @BPSOfficial and @psychmag shed your trans capture, change your gender guidelines, produce guidelines for CYP (promised 5 years ago) and withdraw your 2025 practitioner book award for gender affirming care #finnishstudy

@Glinner Old autogynephiles like Eddie won the lottery over the last decade. Imagine being aroused by the thought of being a woman and then suddenly every liberal in the world starts indulging your fetish by fighting savagely to defend the idea that you’re now literally a woman.

Many comedians are too preoccupied with making people laugh and have lost sight of their true purpose, which is of course to lecture the audience on progressive political ideology. If people are laughing rather than applauding then you are doing it wrong.

People in my village are celebrating Easter in a variety of different ways. Some are going to church, Some are having an egg hunt, Some are just out for a leisurerly morning stroll. I have reported all of them for Islamaphobia.

And in the uk "staff allege they were discouraged by GIDS Director Polly Carmichael (psychologist) from going to see the Trust's safeguarding lead.." (BBC NHS child gender clinic: "Staff concerns 'shut down'")

Will we find out what has happened to the 9,000 children already treated with puberty blockers and cross sex hormones by the NHS? Will funds be made available to support detransitioners who the NHS has an ethical responsibility to care for? We encourage all former GIDS patients to engage with this data linkage study.

In the 1950's, samesex attracted people were told they were criminals and pumped full of body altering chemicals. Nowadays, these people are told they are Trans, and then pumped full of body altering chemicals. We've come so far.

Many Clin Psychs are worried about the effect on their profession of @BPSOfficial 's capture by trans ideologues. Is it even worse for Ed Psychs with OHare's role in the BPS? Cf: Is there any role for ‘Educational Psychology’ in Dan O’Hare’s “Polycrisis”? open.substack.com/pub/dbuck/p/an…