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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' Professor @pfonagy.bsky.social, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS

Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I can confirm that this is a remarkably enjoyable night. We didn't know what to expect but followed a Mark Thomas recommendation. I'm not sure my brain managed to keep up with everything on the train monologue but regardless, we found it funny, fulfilling and insightful.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

Different pictures of Van Dyke throughout the years

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Social Phobia skills day on the Keele CBT PGDip tomorrow. Time to break out these bad boys for teaching, i hope everyone likes them! #cbtworks

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Humility is often mentioned as 𝘢𝘯 important quality in a therapist, but given its impact on the other virtues, it might be 𝘵𝘩𝘦 most important quality in a therapist.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Well CBT Blue Sky, it's finally happened, I'm teaching a new cohort of high intensity trainees that contains individuals too young to know who Columbo is. It's a sad day indeed. Thoughts and prayers. #onemorething

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People Magazine @people.com · 01/10/2025

🔗: bit.ly/4mKeWji Dr. Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park has died. She was 91. 📷️: Getty

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Wow, amazing stuff from the Red Roses in the rugby world cup. Something to be so proud of and an in-person attendance that is the second highest (both men & women) ever. Inspirational.

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David Webb @allaboutpsychology.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Today in Psychology (27th September 1913), Albert Ellis was born. A hugely influential psychotherapist, Ellis is renowned for developing rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). #psychotherapy #psychology #PsychologyStudent #PsychologyMajor

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Psychology Classics

Rational Psychotherapy and Individual Psychology by Albert Ellis

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

If you've ever known or cared for anyone that experienced this catastrophically cruel disease, you'll know how much this means.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Best advice I never took was when I was 30 and on a massive career fast-track: You cannot cuddle with your career on a lonely night when your life is on the decline. Invest as much time on love and family. Sounded twee then. At 62 and near retirement, I now know it's 100% true.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A reminder that the acorn of this theory is with a hideous individual that made it all up, and was struck off the medical record. It was all utter BS. Had we found that immunisation caused autism, we'd actually understand a lot more about autism than we do now. And we'd welcome that knowledge.

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Richard Thwaites @thwaites.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Our paper attempts to describe a number of changes in our TTad service over the last few years including asking about autism at first contact, offering potential adaptations and training staff in how to do these..

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Was reminded of Bentham’s argument that fear of crime can be a worse harm than crime itself. Everyone can be affected by fear of crime but relatively few people experience serious crime. And fear of crime can easily be manipulated for nefarious purposes.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Germany suspends sale of arms to Israel over planned invasion of Gaza.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

6 years ago tomorrow, from the result of misjudged planning, I ended up traveling up to John O'groats alone on my birthday, ready for the start of an epic adventure. We started 2 days later and in 10 after we were in Lands End having raised £3500 for the Combat Stress charity. Best.Adventure.Ever.

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

There is nothing wrong with being a Freudian, a relationalist, an interpersonalist, a self psychologist, or whatever, as long as one does not succumb to the delusion that their school has a monopoly on truth and there is nothing to be learned from other approaches. - Arnold Richards

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Kristen Lopez @kristenklopez.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is utterly joyous.

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Richard Thwaites @thwaites.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The idea for this paper came about after a chat with Dr Romana Farooq. The ideas apply equally to low & high intensity CBT & whilst paper is sprawling, we hope this first attempt resonates with some people & if so encourages reflection. Lots of conversations have fed into this paper - thanks below!

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laylamofrad.bsky.social @laylamofrad.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So nice to see this out. Thanks @thwaites.bsky.social for getting us together and making it happen ⭐️

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Dr. Aaron Bradbury @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We’re calling on Bridget Phillipson to rethink approach to early years. Children need play, not pressure. The science is clear, school readiness shouldn’t come at the cost of child development. 🖊️ Sign the open letter: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #PlayMatters #RethinkEarlyYears

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It was this or something similar that really introduced me to weird and subversive cinema (I think Channel 4 did similar). But it was the strange and weirdly interesting story telling that I took from it. Better to be confused for ten minutes than bored for ten seconds.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

For the first time today I was asked to sign a book I co-authored. I completely get that when you are incredibly famous and it's a big task that it seems a similar big ask. But when you're a little author and the book wasn't designed to make money for anyone other than the publisher, it's lovely.

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It's the treatment of Social Phobia day tomorrow for the Staffs Uni High Intensity PGDip, time to dig out these bad boys. Purple Docs and band t-shirt complete the look, very stylish! #cbtworks

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? (Psychology) We know about all the charlatans and corrupt unqualified individuals offering support and pretending to be psychologists and therapists, and that they exploit people daily. But we can't do anything about it (currently).

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

06:55 - heading to the gym feeling groggy. Drove past a young chap walking along a small path that accompanies the country road. Headphones on, belting something out to himself, unfettered by surroundings, and wearing a smile a mile wide whilst doing so. That kinda joy is better than coffee.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thank you readers for your kind words about #normallyweird uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm...

I had to take my first pause at page 34, 1 am a 62 year old bloke who has never had a book make me cry in this way. It confronted me with my own mental health struggles, and how for the past 25 years I have blamed my depression and anxiety on what I now realise is probably the wrong "trigger".
This book doesnt preach, isnt new age woowoo, it just says. And what it says hit me like a sledgehammer to be honest, that someone could verbalise what my own life has been like so well was completely amazing.
If you are someone who this book is about (ie human) you need to read it.

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Richard Thwaites @thwaites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

New paper out from our group that is trying to improve the experience of Talking Therapies services for autistic patients. This specific paper looks at the staff experience and what training and support they think they need. Another paper in review on the patient experience... lnkd.in/ehkxJNYu

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I hate to be one of those 'confirmation bias' types but this is so reflected in clinical work, and simply makes more logical sense for treatment tolerability. Glad to see the evidence base growing.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I'm an educator and therapist in CBT, welcome to my world. It gets darker at times.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm excited to get emails about possible NICE revision to the OCD treatment guidance (it's 20 years old). All exposure work (for every anxiety issue) is exposure and response/ritual prevention (ERP). Stop telling me that ERP is an adjunct to CBT. CBT for OCD without exposure is not CBT for OCD.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is bleak reading

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Thrilled to finally receive my copy of the book I wrote a small piece of. It feels very strange though. Congratulations to Jason Roscoe (who never transferred the stress of editing) and my fellow contributors. Hopefully it adds something useful and interesting to our field. #cbtworks

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Treat your dogs well, they often do a lot of heavy lifting when you need them.

The picture is of a dog lying on the outside sofa on decking, with fields and greenery in the background. The dog looks very peaceful.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jokes aside, the mirror looks better that way.

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tCBT & BCP @babcpjournals.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New Clinical Guidance paper in tCBT: How to treat someone suffering with PTSD following rape in adulthood Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's been a really challenging day working through @babcp course accreditation for the HI-CBT PGDip, which of course, it should be. There's nothing like a challenge though to bring people together for a common objective, and it's also been lovely sitting and laughing with my Keele Uni colleagues.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Meet the slightly unwilling star of the Staffordshire University HI-CBT Phobias teaching day. In the spirit of never encouraging individuals to do anything we'd not do ourselves, hats off to the arachnophobic trainees pushing themselves on the day.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It was a great afternoon and hopefully the start of something really exciting and useful.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Welcoming a new cohort tomorrow morning to the second ever year of the Keele University CBT pgdip. Then off to talk innovation involving VR in Taking Therapies in the afternoon (open to ideas on this topic). This week may peak on Monday, which is not something i usually say.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A frustrated academic plea. Please ensure your citations match your references. It's a simple admin exercise. I'm not angry, just disappointed.

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Alex Preston @alxprestoncbt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi everyone, I've just moved over from the mire. I'll post about all things psychological/cognitive/behavioural/therapy based with maybe a little bit of philosophy thrown in for good measure. Pleased to meet you all.

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