Dr Craig Joyce

It’s important for students to look after themselves and their wellbeing during their time at university. 💜 We have made a blog with some tips to help them support their mental health and navigate university. You can check it out now on our website: bit.ly/3JSxn7F

8 myths about psychoanalytic therapy* (If they taught you any this in your training, your instructors didn’t know what they were talking about. Sorry.) ❌Therapist is largely silent ❌Therapist is a stone-faced blank screen ❌Therapist doesn’t express opinions/judgments about what patient says ❌Therapist never discloses their own emotional reactions ❌Therapy is about repressed memories ❌The main focus is sex and aggression ❌Breakthroughs happen in a dramatic emotional catharsis ❌Therapies go on endlessly Yes, these are myths. Every one of them. I’m sorry if you believed whoever told you any of these things. I’m especially sorry if they were people you looked up to. *adapted from Glen Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

“I'm not different from a washing machine that spins when you press the button—except I spin words” Response from chatGPT after I pretended to be schizophrenic and it said it cared about me. Like any good paranoid schizophrenic, I caught the deception*

“Until you make your unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” —CG Jung

Hollywood is on fire , yet still deniers clutch at straws to blame this on anything other than the real problem – climate breakdown . I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads to take the fight to the companies who continue to exploit our fragile planet petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

For many of us, Christmas isn’t always the jolly time that we see on social media and TV. It can be a time of feeling alone, whether you’re missing someone, feeling the pressure to have a good time, or surrounded by people you don’t feel you belong with. These tips can help 💜

DECP’s @drcynthia_pinto on why we need more EPs to be trained and the changes needed in EP service delivery so that there can be more EP focus on early intervention and more equitable access to EPs for CYP . bps.org.uk/news/ive-heard… #twittereps #psychologymatters @BPSOfficial

@Thomashornall Talk about generalist and reductive. How mind numbingly ignorant and narrow.

I’m British. I recently spent 10 days in the USA for business. And discovered the ocean between us isn't water. It's mindset. 7 uncomfortable truths about US v UK culture:

"Therapy has become less and less professional and more paraprofessional" (4:45) "Training has devolved to the point where students get out into practice & they don't know how to swim & so they grab onto whatever weekend workshop serves as a life preserver" (6:21) —Lou Cozolino

✅Narcissistic personality ✅Borderline personality ✅Histrionic personality Want to know what they’re really about? Here’s my chapter, “The Personality Syndromes” (Oxford University Press, 2022) It’s written for professionals but readable by anyone bit.ly/3E4Ww7P

I greatly appreciated hearing about mental health and wellbeing from athletes whom so many in the nation look up to. Mental health continues to carry significant stigma, particularly for men. Huge Congratulations on your wins! @adam_peaty @kim_woods_95 #mentalhealth #Paris2024

@DrFreyaEP Thank you! The work is a challenge and, in the current climate, every little helps.

@DrCraigJoyce Love how you are offering the maingrade roles at A4-9, I think Solihull is only the second service I’ve seen doing that since the scales were extended. It’s a shame it’s not happening more widely.

Join our growing team! Creative, inclusive, with many opportunities to develop and shape your practice. Included is a host of benefits and a highly competitive salary. Get in touch if you’d like a chat about the roles: aep.org.uk/jobs/solihull-…

Had to strain your ears to hear any mention of mental health in the #ITVDebate just now? Us too. This has to change as we near the #GeneralElection

Dangerous, reductive, jingoism. Young people have suffered enough through a global recession, the loss of the EU, a global pandemic, and now they want to throw them into training for war? They should throw themselves in and rid us of their stupidity.

When people claim trauma-informed practice leads to no rules, no consequences & total chaos, it can tell us where they’re at. Some are stressed. Some misunderstand. Some are wary of change. Some are used to doing what was done to them. And some prefer to stick with fear and shame

“We are in a situation where some adolescents are very legitimately experiencing mental health crises, without decent treatment, while others are inaccurately describing typical developmental stress with the language of disorder.”

@StevenHughes129 @KerryFi72237054 @garethkthomas It is hard to fill a cup that is already full…

@KHSHead @KHSWarwick Congratulations, Taya!

Hi #twittereps @AdrianneLReid and I are undertaking research exploring bullying within the EP profession We are seeking as many qualified EPs as possible to complete our survey. Please consider participating Survey and further info here: sps.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/ep-bullying-re… Please share