I spent most of yesterday going through the written evidence submitted to the Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions for its review of benefit sanction policy, Beyond the Oakley review. The government originally set[…]

Now and again you read something that makes you blink and stops you dead in your tracks. When you realise that the text that provoked this response is something you co-authored and published fifteen years[…]

Recent events suggest that the profession of clinical psychology is adrift, and lacks any ethical or self-critical direction. These events include the failure of the British Psychological Society (BPS) to engage with the perspectives of[…]

Some years ago shortly after I moved to work in Bradford, something happened that made me think carefully about what it means to be a psychiatrist. In the lead up to Christmas we managed to[…]