Julia Macintosh
@juliamacintosh.bsky.social
Director, Centre for Mad Culture UK
find out more on my website at: http://juliamacintosh.online
read my blog at: https://juliamacintosh.substack.com/
find out more on my website at: http://juliamacintosh.online
read my blog at: https://juliamacintosh.substack.com/
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Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Global mental health activist Matthew Jackman will share his work on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
Matthew Jackman is a global mental health activist focusing on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective. Join us on Tues 12 Aug in Edinburgh to hear about his work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
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We’re not stupid people but there is an attack on our thinking about what is happening in digital therapy. www.youtube.com/shorts/EXYQ_...
Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen
Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen
UberTherapy3
YouTube video by Surviving Work
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November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We’re not stupid people but there is an attack on our thinking about what is happening in digital therapy. www.youtube.com/shorts/EXYQ_...
Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen
Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen
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Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
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A conference on madness, health and creativity
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A conference on madness, health and creativity
The Centre for Mad Culture UK officially launches on Friday! The reception is fully booked with waitlist - but the exhibition itself is open for visits on Friday 17 Oct from 10am to 4pm and on Saturday 18 Oct from 10am to 1pm. If you're in or around Edinburgh please come along and say hello!
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Centre for Mad Culture UK officially launches on Friday! The reception is fully booked with waitlist - but the exhibition itself is open for visits on Friday 17 Oct from 10am to 4pm and on Saturday 18 Oct from 10am to 1pm. If you're in or around Edinburgh please come along and say hello!
Hello @asylummagazine.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social please share this link with your followers in Edinburgh who may be interested in joining us on Tues 12 August 7pm at the Outhouse
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Global mental health activist Matthew Jackman will share his work on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hello @asylummagazine.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social please share this link with your followers in Edinburgh who may be interested in joining us on Tues 12 August 7pm at the Outhouse
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Matthew Jackman is a global mental health activist focusing on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective. Join us on Tues 12 Aug in Edinburgh to hear about his work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Global mental health activist Matthew Jackman will share his work on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Matthew Jackman is a global mental health activist focusing on human rights, social justice and the lived experience perspective. Join us on Tues 12 Aug in Edinburgh to hear about his work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, please join me next week at the Outhouse for Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Date: 12 aug • 19:00
Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Date: 12 aug • 19:00
Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Mad Insight Collective presents this talk with visiting mad activist Matthew Jackman. Join us for drinks, snacks and conversation.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If you're in Edinburgh or nearby, please join me next week at the Outhouse for Euphoric Mind: an evening with mad activist Matthew Jackman
Date: 12 aug • 19:00
Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
Date: 12 aug • 19:00
Location: 12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/euphoric-m...
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Why are we legally detaining teenages in mental health hospitals?
And then allow them to be so poorly run?
I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better…
This is ableism pure and simple.
Poor love.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And then allow them to be so poorly run?
I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better…
This is ableism pure and simple.
Poor love.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Girl, 14, died at psychiatric hospital after agency worker with false ID left her unwatched, inquest hears
Ruth Szymankiewicz should have been under constant watch at Huntercombe hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why are we legally detaining teenages in mental health hospitals?
And then allow them to be so poorly run?
I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better…
This is ableism pure and simple.
Poor love.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
And then allow them to be so poorly run?
I’d listen to the argument for this if we didn’t have alternatives that were way better…
This is ableism pure and simple.
Poor love.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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From the event at Contact theatre in Manchester on 9 July where the Summer Issue 2025 of @asylummagazine.bsky.social (guest-edited by the Balmy Army) was launched
A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured
A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured
July 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
From the event at Contact theatre in Manchester on 9 July where the Summer Issue 2025 of @asylummagazine.bsky.social (guest-edited by the Balmy Army) was launched
A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured
A brilliant event with poetry, films, songs & Oreo Ice Cream where so many amazingly talented young people (Balmy Army members) featured
I have written a rebuttal to @doctoroxford.com's review of Bella Jackson's Fragile Minds in today's @theguardian.com
Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read my response here:
open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...
Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read my response here:
open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...
professional pique
a review of a review
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I have written a rebuttal to @doctoroxford.com's review of Bella Jackson's Fragile Minds in today's @theguardian.com
Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read my response here:
open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...
Fragile Minds is published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
Read my response here:
open.substack.com/pub/juliamac...
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry.
@asylummagazine.bsky.social @madintheuk.bsky.social
A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry.
@asylummagazine.bsky.social @madintheuk.bsky.social
professional pique
a review of a review
juliamacintosh.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry.
@asylummagazine.bsky.social @madintheuk.bsky.social
A review of a review. This new book, Fragile Minds by Bella Jackson, is a sorely needed spotlight on the limitations of psychiatry.
@asylummagazine.bsky.social @madintheuk.bsky.social
My response to today's review of Fragile Minds - published in @theguardian.com by @doctoroxford.com
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
professional pique
a review of a review
juliamacintosh.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My response to today's review of Fragile Minds - published in @theguardian.com by @doctoroxford.com
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/profession...
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UberTherapy is the essential guide to the uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design asking if 'therapeutic Tinder' offers a way to avoid the deep and uncomfortable work of therapy.
Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy
Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy
April 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
UberTherapy is the essential guide to the uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design asking if 'therapeutic Tinder' offers a way to avoid the deep and uncomfortable work of therapy.
Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy
Pre-order here bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy
My latest post, on the upcoming ISPSUK annual conference: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/finding-co...
finding common ground
The other day I experienced what I think of as ‘a wobble’ – that is, a tide of nerves and trepidation which coalesces into a minor hum of low-grade anxiety.
juliamacintosh.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
My latest post, on the upcoming ISPSUK annual conference: juliamacintosh.substack.com/p/finding-co...
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Anyone know of any lived/living experience led research projects around suicide understanding either past or present, UK or abroad? #madsky #madstudies @roryoc.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Anyone know of any lived/living experience led research projects around suicide understanding either past or present, UK or abroad? #madsky #madstudies @roryoc.bsky.social
The latest issue of Asylum Magazine is out now. I'm very pleased to have an article in this issue, about the Mad Insight project with which I am involved. madinsight.online
December 2, 2024 at 11:00 AM
The latest issue of Asylum Magazine is out now. I'm very pleased to have an article in this issue, about the Mad Insight project with which I am involved. madinsight.online
