Julia Macintosh

YouTube video by Surviving Work UberTherapy3

We’re not stupid people but there is an attack on our thinking about what is happening in digital therapy. www.youtube.com/shorts/EXYQ_...

Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen

A University of Lancashire poster, inviting people to participate in research. Have you experienced harm from mental health services? You are invited to take part in this study which is looking to identify and examine overlooked and lesser known forms of harm in UK mental health services. Taking part will involve completing an anonymous online survey, involving questions about your experiences of harm. This will take approximately 15-45 minutes to complete. I am looking for individuals who are aged 18+, AND have experienced harm from mental health services within the UK from 2010 onward, OR are the carer/family member of someone who has experienced harm from mental health services within the UK from 2010 onward. For more information, or to take part, please scan the QR code or go to this web address: https://tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx Who Am I? My name is Lauren Langley and I am a PhD student at the University of Lancashire. I am Autistic and have lived experience of trauma and mental illness. As a mental health patient, I have experienced harm from mental health services. If you have any questions, please get in touch: llangley1@uclan.ac.uk (picture below of a white person with ginger hair, wearing a blue t-shirt) Further information, including FAQs, and Easy Read and downloadable versions of the questionnaire are available on the study website: www.hiddenharms.wordpress.com Ethical Approval No: BAHSS2 01118

Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx

A conference on madness, health and creativity

The Centre for Mad Culture UK officially launches on Friday! The reception is fully booked with waitlist - but the exhibition itself is open for visits on Friday 17 Oct from 10am to 4pm and on Saturday 18 Oct from 10am to 1pm. If you're in or around Edinburgh please come along and say hello!

Art exhibition by people with mental health issues faces the axe An annual art exhibition which offers a unique opportunity to people with mental health issues is facing closure because of funding cuts.

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Hello @asylummagazine.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social please share this link with your followers in Edinburgh who may be interested in joining us on Tues 12 August 7pm at the Outhouse

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Matthew Jackman is a global mental health activist focusing on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective. Join us on Tues 12 Aug in Edinburgh to hear about his work.

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If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, please join me next week at the Outhouse for Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman

Date: 12 aug • 19:00

Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY

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Girl, 14, died at psychiatric hospital after agency worker with false ID left her unwatched, inquest hears Ruth Szymankiewicz should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe hospital

Why are we legally detaining teenages in mental health hospitals?

And then allow them to be so poorly run?

I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better…

This is ableism pure and simple.

Poor love.

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From the event at Contact theatre in Manchester on 9 July where the Summer Issue 2025 of @asylummagazine.bsky.social (guest-edited by the Balmy Army) was launched
A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured

professional pique a review of a review

I have written a rebuttal to @doctoroxford.com's review of Bella Jackson's Fragile Minds in today's @theguardian.com

Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Read my response here:
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professional pique a review of a review

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A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry.

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professional pique a review of a review

My response to today's review of Fragile Minds - published in @theguardian.com by @doctoroxford.com

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UberTherapy is the essential guide to the uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design asking if 'therapeutic Tinder' offers a way to avoid the deep and uncomfortable work of therapy.
Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

finding common ground The other day I experienced what I think of as ‘a wobble’ – that is, a tide of nerves and trepidation which coalesces into a minor hum of low-grade anxiety.

My latest post, on the upcoming ISPSUK annual conference: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/finding-co...

lump sum a response to Prof Linda Gask

Thank you for posting this link. Here is my response to the article: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/lump-sum

lump sum a response to Prof Linda Gask

hi Linda, here is my response to your article: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/lump-sum

madness doulas a new type of support?

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madness, art and abuse some further reflections

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Anyone know of any lived/living experience led research projects around suicide understanding either past or present, UK or abroad? #madsky #madstudies @roryoc.bsky.social

Sorry I don't know of any research specifically. I can ask around... :-)

new: subscriber perks for paying subscribers of madreality

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sightseeing I recently requested copies of my psychiatric records.

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home - Mad Insight welcome to Mad Insight lose your mind, find yourself Do you agree? Come in and help make it happen! join us here Just remember: mad experiences are unique to everyone and we do not lay claim to defini...

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really real a message to heed

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lost and found Later today I will be co-hosting a journaling workshop for members of ISPS-UK who are family and friends of people with lived experience of psychosis.

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Power Threat Meaning Framework: a reflection One of the newer tools being promoted within the mad movement is the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF).

thoughts on a Sunday morning...

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The latest issue of Asylum Magazine is out now. I'm very pleased to have an article in this issue, about the Mad Insight project with which I am involved. madinsight.online

on finding ways to describe ourselves How do you describe yourself, and the work which engages you? How do you capture its nuances in a few words and labels? How do you navigate all the assumptions and connotations that are tangled up wit...

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Mad Studies Mastermind 6-week group coaching programme starts 18 January. Engaging presentations, interactive action learning sets, reflective writing space.

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