Other Writing

Papers:

Making up symptoms: psychic indeterminacy and the construction of psychotic phenomena. Psychiatric Bulletin. 43, 81–84 (2019)

Are delusions beliefs? A qualitative examination of the doxastic features of delusions. Psychosis. 10 (4) 319-328 (2018)

Team splitting and the ‘borderline personality’: a relational reframe. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.

Leaving Baby Bear: Libidinal Object Constancy at the Start of a Play Therapy Case. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. 14 (20). 196-210 (2015)

Classification in psychiatry: Inevitable but not insurmountable. Social Theory & Health. 12, 361–375 (2014). 

Psychiatric Diagnosis vs. Psychological Formulation: A Plea for Synthesis. Clinical Psychology Forum. 246. 23-25 (2013).

Articles and Blogposts:

Aeon

Deluded, with reason

A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’

The Psychologist 

A brief history of thinking ourselves insane (March, 2017)

Documentary as romantic science. (March, 2016)

World War Z Review. (July 2013)

BMJ Blogs:

Schizophrenia - What Doesn't Exist? (February 2016)

The Conversation:

Real Crisis in psychology isn't that studies don't replicate, but that we usually don't even try. (September 2015)

Is Schizophrenia a "Real" Illness? (November 2014)

Discursive of Tunbridge Wells:

Where Are The Psycho-Sceptics? (with Leigh Emery, January 2016)

Against Mindfulness (June 2014)

The Manufacture of Madness: Why Social Construction in Psychiatry is not as Simple as it Seems (January 2014)

Mental Health Chat:

Psychiatry is More Complex than Either its Proponents or its Critics Seem Able to Admit (March, 2015)

Reading Oliver James on CBT (November 2014)

Does Mental Illness Exist? (May 2014)

The Clinician's Illusion: A Powerful Source of Bias Three Decades On. (May 2014)