Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD
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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD
@grahampringle.bsky.social
Complex trauma-informed & human rights-based outdoor therapy researcher and practitioner, ISSTD, Outdoors Qld, Youth Flourish Outdoors. Yuggera country, Australia
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I am interested in the validity of schizophrenia as a diagnosis

I've heard him explain that two people with no symptoms in common can both be so diagnosed

That seems quite loose, and I wonder at it's utility

Specially given we can formulate an individual case effectively
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Yes, he is not keen on that matter either. But I know little about ECT (n=1) so wasn't referring to that tbh.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Interested in the comments to this. I have seen dissociation therapists reject IFS for dissociation and hear that it was not meant for that issue. So if it is used for the wrong purpose it might (which I think they were saying) be unhelpful. But I have no first hand and keen to learn from others
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Laws of armed conflict and rules of engagement were emphasised in my officer training

This is sickening, and suggests top level complicity, as seen when our own special forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan

This however, is systemic, enduring and wholesale

The ICC must act
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Spent five nights in Emergency (1) and Cardiac (4) wards and now in a discharge outpatient group, and will transition to a two month recovery team next week.

$0, and it seems like really good care
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
How a minority attempts a takeover when democracy doesn't provide them with power
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Reads like TUPSA provoking footage they want. Stay cool people
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Is schizophrenia today more real than when Kraepelin and Bleuler created it?

What is wrong with case formulation? Which is an alternative to diagnosis?
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The symptoms are real. No-one disputes this

What is the cause of the illness?

If it is enduring and crushing adversity the cause is not illness. It is systemic inhumanity
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I think of other things every 11 Nov tbh
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
'... could cost votes'

It's our climate we are worried about you idiots

Stuff your careers
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
How often do we see a counter narrative to theirs labelled 'sick', 'crazy' etc?

When their narrative is called out they claim 'free speech', and 'discussion'

So assured are they that theirs is the only view worth expressing
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Arseholes, the lot of them
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Thank you. A good study. Love the different data sources.

Expanding our sense of self to include those in similar situations seems pretty obvious in retrospect. Also, the utility of purposeful action toward a solution.

I think this has application in the world at large.
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
What a hateful bunch of neo Nazi men

Thankfully we have strong women in politics

Can we now tighten laws against hate speech? Demand algorithms that identify the haters
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Chinese food place down the road has an excellent menu. Uber-eats etc there all the time. But it's decor is quite like this.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wonderful. Keep the pressure on

In the Post Trump Renaissance, make sure no far right brick is left standing

Heritage, Turning Point, the IBLP ... Unhouse them all
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Good on you Peter, and thank you for holding them to account
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The Royal Commission has an entire chapter on the Anglicans and another on the Catholics. Then lengthy sections on the Salvo's, Jehovah's Witnesses, Au Christian Churches and Pentecostals

Basically all the Christian religions

www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/defaul...
www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Beliefs and believers should be distrusted

If decisions and decision-makers are not rights-based, they are not right
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Priorities of Trumpwits
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM