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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Leaving Malta again after my second trip here in two weeks, delivering training on mentalizing approaches to mental health professionals. Great engagement and discussion from attendees. I stand by mentalization being a useful approach in any circumstances.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Interesting time in Oban joining the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy of Scotland. Met a lot of people across a hugely diverse array of disciplines. Interesting conversations and project ideas.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

7 hour train journey home, and another BIGSPD done. Great opportunity to connect with others and hear about interesting ideas in the field of 'personality disorder' #BIGSPD26

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My poster on the conceptual black hole of borderline personality disorder at #BIGSPD26. Also available here www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Delivering the 2026 Skellern Lecture, 11th June at Sheffield Hallam University, was a career highlight so far. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of the things I'm most looking forward to this year, is having been selected to deliver the annual Skellern Lecture. I plan on discussing how MH nursing may be constrained by ideas of 'nursing', and the relationship with psychiatry. Learn more: www.skellern.info

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

When people diagnosed with 'borderline personality disorder' are told they are "too unstable for therapy", this harms their self-concept, and also seems to rather bizarrely demand that people get well before they are treated. Explore further, open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Whilst I'm always a little disappointed that fellowship never seems to mean I get to band together with mythical peoples to take a mysterious ring to Mount Doom, I am pleased to have been successful in my application to become a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I leave Malta this morning, having been welcomed by mental health nursing colleagues as I opened their annual conference with a keynote, and delivered some teaching around 'personality disorder' and mentalization to hospital staff. Interesting that challenges for MH nursing are similar.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Enjoyed connecting with international colleagues at the mental health nursing leaders summit in Barcelona. The plan is to establish an international council for mental health nursing, and my heart is fully behind this project, but my head wonders how it will work and what impact it can have.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Looking forward to this. Delighted to be invited by peers in Malta.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

As an @rcn.org.uk member I get the @nursingstandard.bsky.social through the post each month. Claims to be your 'essential nursing journal', yet there is often little to no content around mental health. As a mental health nurse, that is what is essential.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I'll still be living in Scotland, and still interested in the field of 'personality disorder', so I'll be around, but my shift is over. (4/4)

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We also had our first in person conferences since 2019, at Abertay University, Dundee in 2024 and 2025. These conferences have had more and more lived experience representation, both in attendance as well as contributing to presentations, and that is the only way forward. (3/4)

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The last 6 years has been a privelege, to keep the network going through covid with online conferences, co-producing three animations to raise awareness and information about 'personality disorder' (2/4) www.scottishpersonalitydisorder.org/videos

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Yesterday was my last Scottish Personality Disorder Network conference as part of the executive group. Time poverty means I sadly cannot do everything I want to. (1/4)

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A busy but enjoyable BIGSPD is over. I come away with new connections and ideas, some great feedback on my own presentation, and lovely to see some of Liverpool. #BIGSPD25

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Knackered. First organised run in 15 years. A 10k in 1hr 10 secs. In aid of Kayleighs Wee Stars. An excellent local charity. Check them out. www.kayleighsweestars.co.uk

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A pleasure to be invited to talk to NHS Tayside staff today, about the action/consequences model and ethical approaches to risk for people diagnosed with 'personality disorder'. More about the model at this webinar here: youtu.be/sC3CVq10XCM?...

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Following the Nursing Times article "RCN questions separation of mental health nurse training", this response went to Mental Health Forum members on 7th April.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Reviewing an article, and I was wondering why I felt a surge of malevolence and pedantry boiling inside my dark soul, dying to be taken out on an unsuspecting author. The fiery red demon of reviewer 2 almost posessed me. But... I resisted, and was nice.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Please see links to sign up to attend the Scottish Personality Disorder Network annual conference, held at Abertay University, Dundee on 25th June: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-p... You can also submit an abstract to present at the conference using this link: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Some lovely feedback from training social work teams around 'personality disorder' today. Critique of the diagnosis, reminder of the humans behind the labels, and emphasis on the importance of relationships. Contact me at: danwarrender.wordpress.com

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I enjoyed presenting some of my PhD research in Glasgow today, at an NCISH toolkit event with mental health nurses from across Scotland. Recognition of failings and enthusiasm for change.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This from 2003 is an excellent analysis of mental health nursing in acute inpatient settings, which details nurse experiences, and calls for an abolition of these settings in their current form. Still pertinent over 20 years later.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

After 8 years enrolled as a PhD student, I graduated last week. Behind this picture and a minute crossing the stage was a lot of graft, self-doubt, stress, despair, but ultimately love for the topic that saw me through. To hear me talk about my study, you can follow this link: youtu.be/WnjfFfItGnQ

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Took me a while to get into this, but was hooked once I fell into this dark atmospheric world of murder and conspiracy. I can see why it's seminal in the graphic novel world. Cracking writing and story, affecting artwork.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

First time at Royal College of Nursing Headquarters in London. Attending an induction as I join the Mental Health Forum Steering Committee. Looking forward to getting started.

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