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A sad loss - recall sharing a dinner table with Colwyn Trevarthen at the Liverpool conference in 2014, watching him delight in (& commentate on) the dancing that was taking place before us all #musicality He'll get due acknowledgement at our next infant development teaching day
We are very sad to hear about the death of Colwyn Trevarthen on 2 July. He was a warm & engaging friend to the CAT community, speaking at our 2014 conference in Liverpool & sharing wisdom in the inaugural Journal of CAT & Relational Mental Health in 2017 internationalcat.org/_files/…
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(psychotherapy.psychiatryonli…)andalso our overview page (pit-uk.org.uk/about/). He was Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney, and pioneered research and training programmes in the conversational model for borderline personality disorder.
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recognized) are a form of "manic repair."
Instead of doing that, Coltart says we must practice, first, "bare attention," which she defines as “profound and self-forgetful opening of oneself to another person.” This sounds simply but requires constant discipline & effort.
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So sad to hear this. He and Bob Hobson were wonderful therapists and mentors to many. I shall never forget reading 'The Persecutory Therapist' as a newly qualified clinical psychologist. It changed me. And his lectures on play -- wonderful!
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Around thirty recordings of Winnicott’s broadcasts and lectures.
academic.oup.com/book/12894/…
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Getting ready to introduce my students to the late, great Nina Coltart on "bare attention" and how to listen as a psychotherapist. A few thoughts:
When friends say to me “I could never do your job,” they invariably mean that being regularly exposed to, e.g., tales of
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A short but important story.
I was a children's doctor,
Then life happened.
Maternity leave spent in therapy & on medication for postnatal depression.
As I returned to work,
My rota dictated I would be on call on my second day back.
A specialist hospital I'd never worked in
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This is Kieran. He is a GP and the husband of Lynsey who’s story I shared with you a few weeks ago. For those of you who don’t know Lynsey’s story already, her mental health deteriorated rapidly during her perimenopause. She sustained multiple fractures after trying to end her life and was in a trauma hospital for a few weeks. She was prescribed numerous drugs and even received nine sessions of ECT without any improvement. Kieran had to battle to finally have HRT prescribed for her which thankfully has seen her improve to the extent she no longer experiences these intrusive thoughts.
Sadly, Lynsey’s story isn’t a one off. There are many women who experience a decline in their mental health during menopause and feel the only answer is to take their own life. This ‘insight’ that Kieran describes here is something I see quite often and it’s very different to how people usually present when they are mentally unwell.
It’s really important that there’s more support for these women and that women’s hormones are not overlooked #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
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Pit practitioner training- Starts Jan 24
A 30 week course designed to equip mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to deliver PIT as a standalone psychological intervention.
Details pit-uk.org.uk
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Yes, yes and yes!
“‘No one puts a child in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land’... it’s tragic, and it expresses perfectly the plight of those people”
Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says he is "delighted" the Rwanda policy has been ruled unlawful
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“I know of no other example where the prime minister has overruled intelligence advice.”
@C4Dispatches uncovers how Boris Johnson chose to ignore security advice and make the son of an ex-Russian spy with alleged links to the Kremlin a member of the House of Lords.
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🧵NEW from me-Why are autistic women and trans folk so commonly misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder?
I really hope this will help clinicians stop and think when we automatically 'see' BPD. Many so diagnosed are #ActuallyAutistic #AutismNotPD tinyurl.com/4z43dmdx
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In our new report @NCISH_UK, we show suicides by patients diagnosed with personality disorder to be rising.
Many have multiple risk factors but downgrading of risk persists because of spurious beliefs re capacity, impulsiveness, “behaviour”.
These ideas are costing lives.
