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
I’m now working on a new 4th Edition of my textbook Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology
If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback
Any new topics?
Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback
Any new topics?
Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I’m now working on a new 4th Edition of my textbook Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology
If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback
Any new topics?
Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback
Any new topics?
Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
Had coffee and cake at a local cafe this morning then Sigmund Freud appeared on my cappuccino 😮 - the id be with you 😁
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Had coffee and cake at a local cafe this morning then Sigmund Freud appeared on my cappuccino 😮 - the id be with you 😁
Spotted this today - why can’t they just put a bollard in front of it 🤔
August 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Spotted this today - why can’t they just put a bollard in front of it 🤔
"Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results support the view that ERP can be tailored to treat disgust symptoms and highlight the relevance of evaluative conditioning, inhibitory learning, and CBT"
ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Clinician perspectives in a survey study
Exposure plus response prevention (ERP) emphasizes fear-reduction strategies, yet many patients have OCD symptoms driven by emotions other than fear—p…
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August 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results support the view that ERP can be tailored to treat disgust symptoms and highlight the relevance of evaluative conditioning, inhibitory learning, and CBT"
ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
"Psychotherapy practitioners are curiously complacent about the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence competition. Their passivity reflects ignorance about the power of chatbots, denial of their likely impact and arrogance regarding their capacities"
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Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Warning: AI chatbots will soon dominate psychotherapy
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August 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Psychotherapy practitioners are curiously complacent about the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence competition. Their passivity reflects ignorance about the power of chatbots, denial of their likely impact and arrogance regarding their capacities"
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"We describe 10 generic competences that can support therapists to deliver the strongest possible outcomes in CBT across different forms of psychopathology"
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Ten generic competences to improve outcomes of cognitive behaviour therapy: Evidence, postulated processes, and clinical implications
In the 18 years since higher-order, generic competences (metacompetences) were first identified to guide the implementation of cognitive behaviour the…
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August 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
"We describe 10 generic competences that can support therapists to deliver the strongest possible outcomes in CBT across different forms of psychopathology"
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"The mainstream strategy [in developing new psychiatric diagnoses] has been conservative and iterative, retaining current nosology until something better emerges. However, this has led to stagnation. "
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New diagnosis in psychiatry: beyond heuristics | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
New diagnosis in psychiatry: beyond heuristics - Volume 55
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August 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"The mainstream strategy [in developing new psychiatric diagnoses] has been conservative and iterative, retaining current nosology until something better emerges. However, this has led to stagnation. "
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"AI tools appeared to be accurate in detecting, classifying, and predicting the risk of mental health conditions as well as predicting treatment response "
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Artificial intelligence in mental health care: a systematic review of diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention applications | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Artificial intelligence in mental health care: a systematic review of diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention applications - Volume 55
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August 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"AI tools appeared to be accurate in detecting, classifying, and predicting the risk of mental health conditions as well as predicting treatment response "
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Humans only evolved language once
Why?
Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively
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Why?
Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively
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Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?
There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication
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June 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Humans only evolved language once
Why?
Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively
www.newscientist.com/article/2484...
Why?
Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively
www.newscientist.com/article/2484...
"The interplay between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and OCD symptoms depends on the degree to which people with OCD exhibit a fear of losing control and engage in transdiagnostic response styles (e.g., depressive rumination)"
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How is Being Uncertain Linked to OCD Symptoms? Do Beliefs About Losing Control and Transdiagnostic and Disorder-Specific Coping Responses Matter? - Cognitive Therapy and Research
Purpose While intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is recognized as a contributing factor in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), further research is needed to elucidate the underlying mechanisms linking t...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"The interplay between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and OCD symptoms depends on the degree to which people with OCD exhibit a fear of losing control and engage in transdiagnostic response styles (e.g., depressive rumination)"
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Something we've always suspected - the fear factor!
Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
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Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
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June 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Something we've always suspected - the fear factor!
Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
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Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
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Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview
"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies"
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"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies"
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APA PsycNet
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June 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview
"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies"
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"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies"
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"When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? "
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The Critical (and Neglected) Role of Effort in Emotion Regulation - Danfei Hu, Tony Gutentag, Iris B. Mauss, Maya Tamir, 2025
When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? In other...
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June 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? "
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This is a very sad story - academics get promoted up the management chain but are often never good senior managers - we can probably expect more stories like this
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Dundee University bosses quit after damning report into financial collapse
A report into Dundee University says its financial crisis was caused by a
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June 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is a very sad story - academics get promoted up the management chain but are often never good senior managers - we can probably expect more stories like this
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"The global pooled prevalence estimate for Complex PTSD was 6.2% - prevalence is highest in clinical, domestic and/or sexual abuse, and military samples"
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Prevalence of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) pooled prevalence across global and specific p…
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June 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"The global pooled prevalence estimate for Complex PTSD was 6.2% - prevalence is highest in clinical, domestic and/or sexual abuse, and military samples"
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"Inflammation appears to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of suicidal behavior, offering promising avenues for biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies"
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Inflammatory markers and suicidal behavior: A comprehensive review of emerging evidence - Annals of General Psychiatry
Background Suicidal behavior represents a significant public health challenge, and identifying biological markers associated with its risk is critical for prevention and intervention. Emerging evidenc...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Inflammation appears to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of suicidal behavior, offering promising avenues for biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies"
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Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses
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Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses
Objective To develop a clinician-guided, research-based guideline for adult outpatient psychotherapy for complex presentations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Methods We used state-of-the-art...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses
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Thousands of UK students caught cheating using AI
Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams?
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Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams?
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Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI — The Guardian
Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
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June 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Thousands of UK students caught cheating using AI
Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams?
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Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams?
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"Early onset, depression as the polarity of the first mood episode, lifetime suicide attempts, comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders, and family history of bipolar disorder were associated with significantly longer undiagnosed or untreated bipolar disorder"
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Duration of untreated or undiagnosed bipolar disorder and clinical characteristics and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Duration of untreated or undiagnosed bipolar disorder and clinical characteristics and outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis
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May 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Early onset, depression as the polarity of the first mood episode, lifetime suicide attempts, comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders, and family history of bipolar disorder were associated with significantly longer undiagnosed or untreated bipolar disorder"
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"The studies suggest that ECT causes autobiographical memory loss in patients with depression. Results also suggest that lost memories are not regained."
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Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Autobiographical memory after electroconvulsive therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis
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May 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"The studies suggest that ECT causes autobiographical memory loss in patients with depression. Results also suggest that lost memories are not regained."
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"CBT is an effective and acceptable treatment for sleep problems in people with and at risk of psychosis"
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Cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep problems in psychosis: systematic review of effectiveness and acceptability | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Cognitive behavioural therapy for sleep problems in psychosis: systematic review of effectiveness and acceptability
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May 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"CBT is an effective and acceptable treatment for sleep problems in people with and at risk of psychosis"
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Remembering my parents Ray and Betty on the anniversary of VE Day - Both made their own personal contributions to winning the war - And let’s not forget why it was fought - to preserve democracy, freedom and justice for ALL people
May 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Remembering my parents Ray and Betty on the anniversary of VE Day - Both made their own personal contributions to winning the war - And let’s not forget why it was fought - to preserve democracy, freedom and justice for ALL people
I’m sure Donald Trump will have something totally inappropriate to say about an American becoming the new pope ☹️
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New pope live: Robert Prevost to appear on Vatican balcony
Watch live to see the moment the new pope will step out onto the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square.
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May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m sure Donald Trump will have something totally inappropriate to say about an American becoming the new pope ☹️
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