Engender blog | Guest Post: Why we need an integrated health care strategy for women In this guest blog, Engender member Linda Gask explores the need for a coordinated approach to women’s physical and mental health.

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Interesting blog where @suzypuss.bsky.social makes the case for integrated (mental and physical) women's health

Terribly sad x Live forever a
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The graphic shows a photo of women doing yoga, one is wearing a hijab overlaid with a translucent filter and dark purple left-aligned text quote that reads "Everything is connected. What we need is a strategy that thinks about us in the whole, not as separate minds and bodies.". The quote is attributed to Linda Gask, retired psychiatrist and Engender member. In the top right-hand corner of the graphic there is Engender's logo, which is an equals sign in a white circle.

We know that our mental & physical health are intertwined, so why does the Scottish Government approach tackle them separately?

In this guest blog, Linda Gask explores the need for a coordinated approach to women’s physical & mental health.

Read it here: www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/wh...

Engender blog | Guest Post: Why we need an integrated health care strategy for women In this guest blog, Engender member Linda Gask explores the need for a coordinated approach to women’s physical and mental health.

www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/wh...

We need a gender-informed approach to suicide prevention This International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share a blog by Linda Gask reflecting on why we need a more gender‑informed approach to suicide prevention

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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Stay Classy www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... a lacerating review

Doctoring the evidence ‘You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree.  You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease, biology doesn’t care.’  Professor Matthew Schrag, Vand…

My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research

lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...

Doctoring the evidence ‘You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree.  You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease, biology doesn’t care.’  Professor Matthew Schrag, Vand…

My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research

lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...

She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated.

She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

‘Thank you’ to you all for being here this year. X

Christmas in another Celtic nation

We went to see it at the cinema last Christmas - of course it is

trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got:
- starling murmurations in Somerset
- bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall
- salmon jumping in NE England

what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish

Bring back the Family Doctor was a Labour Party manifesto promice

Tories promised 5000 and 6000 more GPs (they failed)

‘Your GP, here for you’ can be a future promise more details here

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Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy

Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

If you have read my book, please do leave review on Amazon and/or Goodreads! Thank you

What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments

Congratulations!

Was Nigel Farage a bit of a Nazi? Only he knows The Reform leader was a teenager when he made crass remarks but we’re entitled to ask a would-be prime minister what lay behind them

perfect column on Nigel Farage's racist, schoolboy past, by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. "The boy haunts the man." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Apologies!! Typos

What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments

Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures
institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...

short video recorded for the Orkney Arts Society Foy this autumn...

A reviewer spends two paragraphs saying why a book needn’t be so long …

A very generous review from Dr Ruby Osorio: Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change By Linda Gask. Cambridge University Press. 2024.- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We need gender-sensitive mental health care

My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination:…

We need gender-sensitive mental health care

My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination:…

Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures
institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...

Sheltering books from the Northern weather