In recent months, since publication of my article in #BACP Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal in Oct 2025, I have been working hard on my latest course for MH professionals on working with people with #depression - see details here - mentalhealthdoc.lpages.co/everything-a...
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I've just uploaded another module to my "Working with People Diagnosed with Depression" course #psychologists, #psychotherapists & #counsellors.
This module is on genetics & depression. Are the asserted claims of genetics in relation to depression true?
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Within MH there's the largely dominant medical/biological perspective, & trauma/psychological perspectives. I include a critique of the medical paradigm of depression in my new depression course. Click for course information & 35% introductory discount – courses.doctorterrylynch.com/p/working-wi...
The difference between science and scientism and why this really matters in mental health.
The current mental health paradigm is regularly promoted as being highly reliable because it is scientific.
Is this paradigm truly based on high quality science?
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Perfectionism is commonly seen as a problematic behaviour pattern; it is indeed problematic.
In order to effectively address perfectionism, it is first necessary to make sense of it.
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Why peers are the most difficult group for people given psychiatric diagnoses - a 4 min 23 sec video
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Is there a summer "SAD syndrome"?
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It does not surprise me at all that 70 years of intensive research has totally failed to establish that the psychiatric diagnoses are fundamentally biological in nature.
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Psychiatric diagnoses/The DSM lack validity
The experiences & behaviours that come to be described as psychiatric diagnosis are very real and valid.
Extrapolating that these experiences & behaviours constitute real verified medical illnesses is not valid.
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It sometimes happens that our assumptions and expectations of other people contribute significantly to the hurts we experience.
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In this brief 2 min 56 sec video, I describe a definition of happiness that I have consistently found to be true and accurate, in my own life and in the lives of clients who attend me.
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"Ridiculous" is the word.
It is commonly stated and understood that mental illnesses are primary cause of suicidal thoughts and suicide. Are such assertions correct?
Should there be more focus on trauma and psychology in relation to suicidal thoughts and suicide?
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An ultimate aim of therapy: The healing of the wounded self and the construction of a solid empowered sense of one’s self.
03 min 20 sec video.
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For decades, we have been told by apparently trustworthy and authoritative sources that there is a global epidemic of depression.
This is NOT correct.
It cannot be rightfully claimed that there is a worldwide epidemic of a non-entity.
There are 2 related epidemics though
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Psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors know that experiences/behaviours are purposeful
This truism is not generally extended to the experiences/behaviours of the psychiatric diagnoses
It should be
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03 min 44 sec video.
The “false divide” between people given psych diagnoses and those who are not, causes many consequences, not least, therapists sometimes inadvertently proving misinformation.
#BACP #psychotherapy #psychology #counselling #mentalillness
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03 min 44 sec video.
The “false divide” between people given psych diagnoses and those who are not, causes many consequences, not least, therapists sometimes inadvertently proving misinformation.
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In June 2025, well known US presenter @TuckerCarlson published a 2 hr 20 minute conversation with @LauraDelano.
This conversation between Laura Delano and Tucker Carlson is remarkable. They are both to be congratulated.
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“Whack-a-mole”: UK psychiatrist @joannamoncrieff, about the practice within #mentalhealth to invent & promote biologically-based theories. Meanwhile trauma- and psychologically-informed understandings & approaches are ignored and dismissed. youtu.be/av3fSc-6wio
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The importance of rigour and a critiquing attitude.
We hear a great deal about how the psychiatric diagnoses are medical illnesses; brain disorders; brain chemical imbalances; genetic conditions.
Do we sufficiently critique such commonly made assertions?
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6 min 58 sec video
#Psychologists, #psychotherapists #counsellors know context matters
The prevailing approach to the psychiatric diagnoses 1. ignores context; 2. systematically excludes context.
Message me for info on my course, "Working with Clients with a Psych diagnosis"
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I'm creating a course for MH therapists–eg psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors-on working with people given a psychiatric diagnosis.
Message me or comment below if you'd like to know when this course becomes available, in the second half of 2025.
#BACP #therapist
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20 billion spent on MH research did not “move the dial” - Dr Thomas Insel, former Director, National Institute of Mental Health.
The reason: they were looking in the wrong place.
A 3 min 48 sec video - youtu.be/YdMtGFK6vyQ
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A major issue greatly minimises psychiatric diagnosis outcomes: systematic bias-towards biology, the brain, brain chemicals, genetics, and away from a trauma- and psychologically-informed understanding & approach.
2 min 45 sec video
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US vice president JD Vance recently expressed major concerns about psychiatry’s bible-the DSM.
Please share as you deem appropriate.
Comment/message me to be updated about my course Working with Clients with a Psychiatric Diagnosis.
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The assumption that experiences and behaviours such as delusions, mania, hearing voices, OCD, those described as personality disorders etc etc make no sense and therefore should be seen simply as “mental illnesses" is fundamentally wrong.
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In this brief video, I describe one consequence of high levels of wounding; turning on/against one’s self. youtu.be/6keIh48ynxw
Please share.
Comment/message me for info on my upcoming course for MH professionals entitled “Working with Clients with a Psychiatric Diagnosis".
In this video I set out why none of the psychiatric diagnoses are verified medical illnesses.
Comment/message me to be updated about when my upcoming course for MH professionals will be available, approx June 2025.
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An example of mental health sloppy thinking: mind & brain used interchangeably
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Comment or message me if you'd like to be updated about my upcoming course for MH professionals, “Working with Clients with a Psychiatric Diagnosis”.
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