Michaela Chamberlain
@michaelacham.bsky.social
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, researcher in psychoanalysis, feminism, misogyny
Author - Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (2022)
Author - Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (2022)
So delighted to say that my new book ‘On Resisting Women’ is now live on Karnac with 20% discount for preorders bit.ly/47xN8dA #women #psychoanalysis #misogyny
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So delighted to say that my new book ‘On Resisting Women’ is now live on Karnac with 20% discount for preorders bit.ly/47xN8dA #women #psychoanalysis #misogyny
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A psychology professor argues that young people, especially Gen Z-ers, are facing an “epidemic of perfectionism,” largely fuelled by social media.
The Pain of Perfectionism
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.
www.newyorker.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A psychology professor argues that young people, especially Gen Z-ers, are facing an “epidemic of perfectionism,” largely fuelled by social media.
‘But this year’s Girls’ Attitudes Survey shows too many are afraid - afraid to go out after dark, to use public transport, or to be themselves online. In fact, 68% of girls have changed their behaviour to avoid sexual harassment in the last year.’
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Campaign against sexism and misogyny
Our campaign to tackle sexism and misogyny
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September 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
‘But this year’s Girls’ Attitudes Survey shows too many are afraid - afraid to go out after dark, to use public transport, or to be themselves online. In fact, 68% of girls have changed their behaviour to avoid sexual harassment in the last year.’
www.girlguiding.org.uk/campaigns/se...
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Other than the science free nature of it all, perhaps the least surprising part of the admin’s new claim is the onus it puts on pregnant women. Dying of fever? Deal with it. In severe pain? Deal with it. Child has autism? It’s because you were weak, and if you say it wasn’t, you’re a liar. We know.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Other than the science free nature of it all, perhaps the least surprising part of the admin’s new claim is the onus it puts on pregnant women. Dying of fever? Deal with it. In severe pain? Deal with it. Child has autism? It’s because you were weak, and if you say it wasn’t, you’re a liar. We know.
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
Join us for a closer look at how misogyny plays out in psychotherapy - really looking forward to presenting this course with Jan Hepburn.https://www.nscience.uk/product/the-invisible-edifice-how-gendered-structures-shape-clinical-work/
The Invisible Edifice: How Gendered Structures Shape Clinical Work - nscience
“I don’t think of myself as a misogynist.” Neither do most people. Yet a teacher who hesitates to express anger in a predominantly male staff meeting, a girl who shrinks her ambitions to accommodate i...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us for a closer look at how misogyny plays out in psychotherapy - really looking forward to presenting this course with Jan Hepburn.https://www.nscience.uk/product/the-invisible-edifice-how-gendered-structures-shape-clinical-work/
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“Tonight a woman is speaking to you.” During WWII, the Italian station Radio Bari became the voice of free Italy. Alba de Céspedes broadcast twice a week, addressing the women of Italy. Read three transcripts, translated into English for the first time.
Alba de Céspedes’s Broadcasts Against Fascism
During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny.
www.newyorker.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“Tonight a woman is speaking to you.” During WWII, the Italian station Radio Bari became the voice of free Italy. Alba de Céspedes broadcast twice a week, addressing the women of Italy. Read three transcripts, translated into English for the first time.
My review of this wonderful book - Babies in Groups is in the current edition of BJP - great book, challenging the misogyny of attachment theory and psychoanalytic tropes about mothers & babies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Babies in groups: expanding imaginations By Ben S. Bradley, Jane Selby, Matthew Stapleton, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 208. £32.66 (paperback), £32.66 (hardback)
Click on the article title to read more.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
My review of this wonderful book - Babies in Groups is in the current edition of BJP - great book, challenging the misogyny of attachment theory and psychoanalytic tropes about mothers & babies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Around 44% of secondary school teacher participants described female pupils being the victims of misogynistic comments, discrimination, or inappropriate behaviour…30% of these teachers making reference to negative influences on self esteem and engagement.
Teachers triage the schoolyard effects of online misogyny | BPS
A survey of UK-based teachers reveals prevalent misogynistic attitudes and behaviours in primary and secondary schoolboys, and details their impacts on female pupils and staff.
www.bps.org.uk
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Around 44% of secondary school teacher participants described female pupils being the victims of misogynistic comments, discrimination, or inappropriate behaviour…30% of these teachers making reference to negative influences on self esteem and engagement.
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New: “It is not your right to see abusive, harmful, degrading, misogynistic porn, much like it's not your right to go and punch someone in the face in the street”
My interview with Baroness Bertin on her newly published porn review: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
My interview with Baroness Bertin on her newly published porn review: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'
Will the government clamp down on legal but harmful online pornography? Sienna Rodgers talks to Conservative peer Baroness Bertin about her new rev...
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March 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New: “It is not your right to see abusive, harmful, degrading, misogynistic porn, much like it's not your right to go and punch someone in the face in the street”
My interview with Baroness Bertin on her newly published porn review: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
My interview with Baroness Bertin on her newly published porn review: www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
‘choking’ sex is being normalised, with a Savanta survey showing 38 per cent of women aged 18 to 39 have experienced it.’
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
Baroness Bertin's porn review: 'This isn't me driving a tank onto the lawn of censorship'
Will the government clamp down on legal but harmful online pornography? Sienna Rodgers talks to Conservative peer Baroness Bertin about her new rev...
www.politicshome.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
‘choking’ sex is being normalised, with a Savanta survey showing 38 per cent of women aged 18 to 39 have experienced it.’
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
‘judge said: “The prosecution suggest the sort of violent misogyny promoted by Tate is the same type of motivation that, on their case, fuelled both the murders and the rape. The defence submit this material has too vague a link and it [is] far too prejudicial.” Any training for judges on misogyny?
Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder
Jury was not told former soldier convicted of murder and now rape was interested in misogynist influencer
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘judge said: “The prosecution suggest the sort of violent misogyny promoted by Tate is the same type of motivation that, on their case, fuelled both the murders and the rape. The defence submit this material has too vague a link and it [is] far too prejudicial.” Any training for judges on misogyny?
“We can’t tell boys that bullying is bad and then equally reward bullies like Trump in power,” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘This moment is medieval’: Jackson Katz on misogyny, the manosphere – and why men must oppose Trumpism
The result of the US election unleashed a ferocious feminist backlash, he says, and makes his 40-year struggle to end violence against women more urgent than ever
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“We can’t tell boys that bullying is bad and then equally reward bullies like Trump in power,” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
February 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
We’re playing cricket with a country that forbids women speaking in public, excludes them from education, withdrawn basic human rights, and this is the news story?
Jos Buttler steps down as captain of England’s white-ball cricket team
England’s white-ball captain Jos Buttler has stepped down after their exit from the Champions Trophy after two opening defeats and a dispiriting tour of India
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We’re playing cricket with a country that forbids women speaking in public, excludes them from education, withdrawn basic human rights, and this is the news story?
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‘Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’
@torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Toril Moi · I must divorce! On Vigdis Hjorth
Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less...
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January 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’
@torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Pleased to share that the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies will be hosting Michaela Chamberlain (@michaelacham.bsky.social) this Saturday 01.25 for a virtual presentation, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis"
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Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Online Presentation) | Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
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January 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pleased to share that the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies will be hosting Michaela Chamberlain (@michaelacham.bsky.social) this Saturday 01.25 for a virtual presentation, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis"
cmps.edu/Misogyny-in-...
cmps.edu/Misogyny-in-...
Looking forward to meeting with the Centre for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies to talk about Misogyny in Psychoanalysis on Saturday 25th Jan - here’s the flyer if you’d like to join us
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January 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Looking forward to meeting with the Centre for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies to talk about Misogyny in Psychoanalysis on Saturday 25th Jan - here’s the flyer if you’d like to join us
www.cmps.edu/cimages/cmps...
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www.theguardian.com/society/2024... -it’s also deeply traumatic for all involved and a huge betrayal of trust - there are alternatives but they require more staff, training and valuing dignity
Controversial face-down restraint still being used for mental health patients in England
Dangerous practice was supposed to be phased out but new data reveals thousands of incidents every year
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 11:09 PM
www.theguardian.com/society/2024... -it’s also deeply traumatic for all involved and a huge betrayal of trust - there are alternatives but they require more staff, training and valuing dignity
‘The point here is not that all men are rapists-in-waiting, nor that all women who put their trust in men are at risk. The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw’
December 19, 2024 at 11:10 PM
‘The point here is not that all men are rapists-in-waiting, nor that all women who put their trust in men are at risk. The point is that patriarchy puts women in a sceptical scenario, making the distinction between the men you can and can’t trust difficult to draw’
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How the defence tried to frame Gisèle Pelicot in court (from Sophie Smith's essay in @londonreview.bsky.social).
December 19, 2024 at 2:46 PM
How the defence tried to frame Gisèle Pelicot in court (from Sophie Smith's essay in @londonreview.bsky.social).