The Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social A conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
https://linktr.ee/ptmframework?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Other PTMF Bluesky accounts are fakes
Will Reid @willreid.bsky.social Personal account. Was @WillReidWeb on Twitter/X.
Mental Health Europe @mentalhealtheurope.bsky.social Largest independent #mentalhealth NGO in Europe 🚀🇪🇺 | We stand up for #humanrights, fight stigma & advocate for better care
Home of #EuropeanMentalHealthWeek
Claudia Marinetti @marinettic.bsky.social
Ryan Miemczyk @theimpactlab.co.uk ONS Accredited Researcher | Founder of imd2025.co.uk & theimpactlab.co.uk | Director of Research @ Trust Impact | Chair @ ManchesterYoungLives | Deputy Chair @ YMCAManchester |
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
Prof.N.Rooney @prof-n-rooney.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist. Honorary Chair QUB. Non Exec Director Public Health Agency NI. Associate Consultant HSC-Leadership Centre. Chair Children’s Heartbeat Trust. #MentalHealth #CHD #WomenInStem
David Cochrane @dlgcochrane.bsky.social MBE. Forensic Mental Health Social Worker based in London. Interested in Safeguarding Adults and Children, Patient Safety/Human Factors Ergonomics, MAPPA, S37/41 MHA and Social Supervision
#forensicsocialwork
@madinpuertorico.bsky.social @madinpuertorico.bsky.social
Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Equality
Health inequalities |
EDI in Research |
Diversity in Research Culture |
Wellcome Trust PI - IDEA |
MRC IAA PI - EDIT |
Bystander Intervention
Papers: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=pvdMECUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@stephen-clarke.bsky.social @stephen-clarke.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist, CAMHS.
Special interest in OCD and PTSD.
Gemma Halliday @gemmahalliday.bsky.social Clinical Lead, Clinical Psychologist
AnDY Oxford Research Clinic
https://andyoxford.mhid.org.uk/
TOPIC Group, University of Oxford
https://bsky.app/profile/topicgroup.bsky.social
Own views. She/Her.
Dr Jen Daffin @jendaffin.bsky.social Community Clinical Psychologist | Director of Relational Practice (Clinical Lead), Policy and Campaigns @platfform.org | Chair Psychologists for Social Change Cymru | @urbancircle
#clinpsych #psychtraining #psychology #mentalhealth #socialjustice
Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈 @annieingarden.bsky.social Community psychologist; grandmother; educator; facilitator; mentor; ex-director DClinPsy Exeter & Plymouth; Playback actor; XRPsychologist; climate; poetry; childhood; health. Roots in NE England; Devon.
Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social PhD, Mental Health Nurse, MBT Practitioner, Lecturer, Researcher, Writer. Interests: philosophy, 'personality disorder' and mental health care. Own views. #MHDeservesBetter
Therapy, Training, Consultancy: https://danwarrender.wordpress.com
David McCormack @davidmccormack.ie Clinical Psychologist. Lecturer (Education) in Clinical Psychology at Queen’s University Belfast.
University Profile: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/david-mccormack
Private Practice: https://www.davidmccormack.ie
Richard Pemberton @socratext.bsky.social Consultant Clinical Psychologist Co Chair of BPS Group for Psychology in Health and Social Care working to increase our profile and contribution at population, community, and neighbourhood levels and across the many public health challenges we face.
Nick White @drnickw.bsky.social NHS CAMHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist, dad, runner, enthusiastic listener to heavy metal #HeavyTherapy. Tweets own views. he/him
Juan Pablo Kalawski @jpkalawski.bsky.social Chile, Terapia Focalizada en la Emoción, Método Alba (Emoting).
USA, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Alba Method (Alba Emoting).
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088362840348
Susan Stephen @susanstephen.bsky.social She/her. Director of Strathclyde Counselling & Psychotherapy Research Clinic. Lecturer in Counselling, University of Strathclyde. Researching process & outcome of person-centred therapy.
Dr Nicola Byrom @nicolabyrom.bsky.social Mum to 2 tiny super stars | Reader King’s College London (IoPPN) | Founder Student Minds| Leader SMaRTeN, UNISMaRT & UBelong | students and public mental health
Student Minds @studentmindsorg.bsky.social We are the UK's student mental health charity.
Join us as we ensure no student is held back by their mental health🧡
Find out more 👉 studentminds.org.uk
Graham Davey @grahamcldavey.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Psychology at Uni of Sussex - posting stuff on mental health, psychology, clinical research, and the occasional rant about almost anything
Dr Jackie Turvey Tait @jaxtait.bsky.social PhD in Natural Law Theory, not a medical doctor. #SSCE
Green Party (views are my own & don't necessarily represent GPEW policy)
#CRPS
Aka Jax
Big Anxiety Research Centre @biganxiety-unsw.bsky.social The Big Anxiety Research Centre [BARC] is a unique transdisciplinary enterprise, dedicated to transforming mental health through cultural innovation.
Andy Rogers @andyrogerstherapy.bsky.social Counsellor | psychotherapist | supervisor
Basingstoke UK
www.andyrogerscounselling.com
Jill Bennett @jilltba.bsky.social Prof/Director, Big Anxiety Research Centre & fEEL, Felt Experience & Empathy Lab, UNSW Sydney: lived experience-led VR/immersive media/AI; creative approaches to transforming trauma; psychosocial design; aesthetics/embodiment/engagement
Dr Priest @pennypriest.bsky.social Mum, retired consultant clinical psychologist, singer, songwriter, ironman, writer, one of 5 members of the Midlands Psychology Group http://midpsy.uk
Sue Sibbald @bpdffs.bsky.social I’m on the project board for NCISH … I’m mainly retired .. I love my two cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ and life in my van with my wife
Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social Prevention is the best ‘medicine’. The world as a complex dynamic system. Long history across multiple roles/industries in IT/digital, Uni - Comp Sci, Ed Psych (Masters). Global change, being human, health prevention. Circular Econ, Art, #renewablesage
Madintheuk @madintheuk.bsky.social MITUK: challenging & rethinking theory & practice around ‘mental health’ in the UK. Proud to be supported by our allies at Mad in America & Mad in the World. Be part of the change 🧡
https://linktr.ee/madintheuk?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYYhZgx29K2F3ypQP
Prof Emmy van Deurzen @emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social Philosopher, visiting professor of psychology with Middlesex University and existential therapist
Director of New School and Existential Academy
President of worldwide Existential Movement.
Author of twenty books, translated into 25 languages
@nickaspeytherapy.bsky.social @nickaspeytherapy.bsky.social
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
(he/they)
@adisorder4everyone.bsky.social @adisorder4everyone.bsky.social
Rachel 🇵🇸 @lovebillybragg.bsky.social 'The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are' (Jung) Chair @mhtimeforaction Fully occupied mother of 3 adorables Peer Supported Open Dialogue (POD) Practitioner
Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social Psychologist; SEEK Safely board president; marathoner. Realistic, sustainable trauma & addiction recovery.
One day at a time.
Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
Every day massive, life changing, decisions are made by those in power without us
Together, people like us can use the power of collective action to bring about change
Join us
https://squarepegsuk.substack.com
Hollie Berrigan @hoppypelican.bsky.social MH Consultant Lived Experience Practitioner. Lived Experience Lead. Integrative Counsellor. Psychology Grad. Autistic. Sweary. Follow #BIGSPD25 for live reporting of BIGSPD conference
Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social Consultant psychotherapist/ disability activist/ bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Worker, future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake ❤️🥄💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
#MadSky #TraumaNotPD #Disability #Neurodivergent #Mad https://t.co/83d2Ztwpp2
Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social recoveryinthebin.org
A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
Survivors against PD #StopSIM @survivorsnotpd.bsky.social Trauma survivors & allies against the label 'personality disorder'| Against pathologising survival | Blaming us for our own distress| #traumanotpd 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Paula McGowan OBE @oliverscampaign.bsky.social •Hon University Fellow- Fac Health
•Founder The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
•Patient Safety
•Hoping for a Social Media Platform where everyone can live together peacefully
#Oliverscampaign
The Flying Child @theflyingchild.bsky.social 📣Leading Conversations About #CSA Through Survivor-Led Training, Campaigning & Support
🌸Sophie Olson: Founder/activist/writer
📖Author of The Flying Child - A Cautionary Fairy Tale For Adults 🌸(ZunTold)
#TheFlyingChildStory #CSASurvivorSky
@iseultdialogue.bsky.social @iseultdialogue.bsky.social
Star of Inanna @starofinanna.bsky.social Mother, therapist, social justice activist, tree hugger. Views my own.
@doubleaitch.bsky.social @doubleaitch.bsky.social
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Claudia Hammond @claudiahammond.bsky.social Presenter, All in the Mind, BBC Radio 4 & Health Check, BBC World Service. Visiting Professor at University of Sussex. Author of The Keys to Kindness, The Art of Rest, Mind over Money, Time Warped & Emotional Rollercoaster.
Alma Ionescu @almaionescu.bsky.social PhD student in Global Health @UCL | critical mental health, activism, care, social justice
Barb G @bmg1963.bsky.social 30 years on Paroxetine. Nearly died after attempting to taper off and still suffering. Trying to raise awareness to help others avoid this horrific journey.
Helen Clark @helenclark001.bsky.social CEO at Association for Nutrition. Former director at BPS and WAGGGS. I'm proud of all those roles, but my posts are in a personal capacity.
Safely Held Spaces @safelyheldspaces.org A British mental health non-profit providing trauma-informed storytelling training to journalists and newsrooms and broadcast and production skills to mental health professionals and those with lived experience.
Phil Benjamin @incoherentme.bsky.social
Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social Critical psychiatrist, professor at University College London and author. Views are my own.
Catriona O’Toole @catrionaotoole.bsky.social Associate Professor in Education, @maynoothuniversity.ie 🎓 Chartered Psychologist PSI | Putting compassion at the ❤️of education 🌟Researching trauma-informed practice, school attendance, wellbeing 👊 Marathon 🏃♀️ Free 🇵🇸
Caroline Martin Chartered Psychologist @powerofuspsych.bsky.social Private Practice - Therapist - Training - Ex-Columnist @IrishExaminer - Ex-Chief Psychologist in Education - Ex UCD & Maynooth Uni Lecturer
#CollectiveEfficacy #ReflectiveSupervision #TraumaResponsive
In person in Dublin 💙🇮🇪& Online Worldwide 🌍🌱
Gabor Petri @petrigoh.bsky.social Disability studies researcher based in Budapest, Hungary.
DrTrishH @trish22.bsky.social Academic, humanistic counsellor and trainer. Promoter of non-pathologising and non-medicalised, relational therapy. Confused by life in general and fast turning into a grumpy old woman. Extremely proud (but scared) mum of a trans adult 🏳️⚧️.
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Oliver Dale @oliverdale10.bsky.social Psychiatrist, Jungian Analyst and Chief Medical Officer at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lisa Morrison @lisatmsa.bsky.social Trainer | Consultant | Public Speaker. Trauma, dissociation, wellbeing. Together everything is possible💛. Final yr Masters: ASW Well-being. Part time #NewScript @ppr-org. Lived exp rep 4 KyrieFarm
www.lisamorrison.co.uk
Lisa Archibald @lisaarchibald.bsky.social Co-Owner and Co-Director of Intentional Peer Support, Activist, Trainer. Passionate advocate for social change & relational alternatives outside the bio-medical system.
Proud Scot 🏴
Animal lover and adventurous traveler 🌍
voice of the psychiatrized @nycicarusorg.myatproto.social mad, disabled, neurodivergent, crip. |views expressed here are private and not associated with any employer| Not affiliated with Fireweed collective or Icarus project. the power of lived experience. #PeerSupport peer support
James @jameshow12.bsky.social Psychology undergraduate at the University of Liverpool. Student Member of the British Psychological association. I will be posting my articles for Scientia News here.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @olddognewtrick.bsky.social they/she, parent, special education teacher, goat person (cats, dogs, chickens too), feminist, anti-fascist, believer in science, we can do hard things and many hands make light work. Midcoast Maine
James Scurry @jamesscurry.com Producer | Sky News
Co-founder | Safely Held Spaces
Senior Fellow | John Schofield Trust
Trainer in Trauma-Informed Newsrooms
Psychotherapist - helping journalists and newsrooms to thrive
London | linktr.ee/jamesscurry
Jacqui Dillon @jacquidillon.bsky.social Activist, writer, public speaker, and educator: trauma, madness, distress, healing, and justice.
www.jacquidillon.org
Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social Professor of social and psychiatric epidemiology at IOPPN, KCL, and psychiatrist. Co-Director of a UKRI national consortium on improving population mental health (PHIUK).
Sarah Powell @sarkpowell.bsky.social Deaf Clinical psychologist working for SignHealth. Long Covid survivor. Loves nature as well as Gromit. Sign name - Power 💪🏻 All views are my own. 💙
International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal @iipdw.bsky.social We support the process of reducing and withdrawing from psychiatric drugs through practice, research and training https://www.iipdw.org
Prof James B Kirkbride @kirkbride.bsky.social Professor of Psychiatric & Social Epidemiology, UCL Division of Psychiatry. Social determinants, ethnic inequalities, severe mental illness
Likes ≠ endorsement
#sdmh #sdoh #EpiSky #CausalSky #psychosis
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/43555-james-kirkbride
Indigo Daya @indigodaya.bsky.social she/her | mad survivor artist & activist | peer support | doing a creative practice PhD in (mad + survivor-led + arts-based + non-carceral) psych alternatives
My links: https://linktr.ee/indigodaya
#Abolition #MadStudies #CSA #PsychSurvivor
Jane Cloke @clokej.bsky.social Running, anything from 5k to 50 miles
Research, health inequalities
Knowledge mobilisation, chasing impact
Greenspaces
Marnie Wedlake, PhD, RP @marniewedlake.bsky.social Self-employed Registered Psychotherapist, Mad Activist. My politics? Turn left & keep going. Just trying to find my way in a world that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Views not necessarily shared by my employer.
marniewedlake.com
Beverley Thomson @antidepressed.bsky.social Author-"Antidepressed" A breakthrough examination of epidemic antidepressant harm and dependence http://amazon.com/dp/1578269237/…
Hayley Elkins @hayleyelk.bsky.social Dog lover, mental health advocate, systemic therapist,
Dr Peter Blundell @drpeterblundell.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher | Dep Editor - European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy | Counsellor/Psychotherapist | Social Worker |
https://linktr.ee/drpeterblundell
https://www.peterblundell.com
Alke Wisselink @wisschrift.bsky.social Cultural scientist, PhD student in Psychiatry & Mad Studies, doing (auto)ethnography / phenomenology / more, teacher Social Work. Enthralled by madness and philosophy.
Also: car-less, chess, heavy metal & Gregorian chant
A Disorder for Everyone (AD4E) @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social Disgruntled psychotherapist trying to make a difference.
Co-founder AD4E (with Lucy Johnstone) adisorder4everyone.com
Founder FB group Drop the Disorder! https://bit.ly/4bskue6
Founding member madintheuk.com
~because labels don’t tell truthful stories~
BABICM @babicmorg.bsky.social The British Association of Brain injury and Complex Case Management (BABICM) is the leading membership organisation for professionals working in brain injury and complex case management.BABICM provide a structure for the continued professional advancement
Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social BA (Honours) English Literature. Always learning and trying to make a small dent in a vast array of worldly knowledge...
Keir Harding @keirwales.bsky.social Occupational Therapist, DBT therapist, MSc in Personality Disorder. Working privately to help people and NHS organisations avoid years in private hospitals that claim to be specialist.
No one should be told their personality is disordered.
Dr Catrin Eames @catrineames.bsky.social Psychologist, Assoc. Prof/Reader, Academic, Researcher Mental Health Wellbeing and Lived Experience
John Wilson @drgrief.bsky.social Grief counselling specialist. Therapist, researcher, teacher and author. Rock drummer. Visiting Fellow of York St John University. Web: johnwilsononline.org
Eliza Fricker (Missing the Mark) @elizafricker.bsky.social Sunday Times Bestseller. Illustrator + author + education + autism + childhood + learning + activist + art. Represented by BKS Agency
Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social Pro-Europe #socialist #RefugeesWelcome. Warning - I swear a lot because the world is on fire!
Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, part-time researcher with a focus on suicide prevention and psychopharmacology.
https://ploederlm.github.io/publications/
https://scholar.google.at/citations?user=76cO6AEAAAAJ&hl=de
Nature, espresso, cycling.
ADAPT Kentucky @kyblueblood.bsky.social "ADAPT Kentucky is a 100% independent, grassroots disability rights organization. We are completely unlinked from and unfunded by any local non-profit, CIL, or state council. #ADAPTNational advocates.
https://www.facebook.com/ADAPTNorthernKy/
Richard Lewis @rlewistherapy.bsky.social Psychotherapist. Counsellor (MNCPS). Author. Researcher. Science writer (MISTC). Broadcaster. Former Parisian trapped in post-Brexit UK. Distress is not a defect. https://richard-lewis.co.uk
Charlie Jones @charliepsych.bsky.social Clinical psychologist in an NHS hospital.
Relationships & humanity in healthcare.
What's going on under the surface?
Listening.
Dad.
Bristol.
Ciarán Shannon @ciaranshannon.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist; Director IMPACT Research Centre; Visiting Prof UU; Hon Prof QUB. N. Ireland #mentalhealth #psychosis
https://www.impactresearchcentre.co.uk/
Rachel @stanreg.bsky.social Basset Hounds
Education
Art
Cooking
Flowers
Anna King @annaking1.bsky.social RN - non practicing due to injury from prescribed psychotropics. Advocate for safer deprescibing of antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
Marion Brown @mmarionbrown.bsky.social Patient Safety campaigner
Especially around adverse effects of very commonly prescribed antidepressants ..
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marion-Brown-7
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marion-brown-9969576/
Wouter @wtrax.bsky.social philosopher, language, madness
Professor John Read @profjohnread.bsky.social Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of East London
(views are my own)
Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
www.iipdw.org
Author, with Pete Sanders, “A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems”
Conall O'Rourke @handle.invalid Clinical Psychologist