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Marieke Bigg

@mariekebigg.bsky.social

Author, sociologist, trainee psychotherapist. Work at Mind in suicide bereavement. Agent: @EliArieh. NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL @ProfileBooks, May, 2025.

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What assumptions are we making about mental suffering when we rely solely on # medical approach? Check out this interview with Welldoing!

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Dr Marieke Bigg: Is Psychiatry Letting Us Down?

Alice McGurran interviews Dr Marieke Bigg about her book No Such Thing as Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of Psychiatry

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

No Such Thing as Normal in the Highlights section @foylesforbooks.bsky.social 🎉

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I spoke about No Such Thing as Normal @conwayhall.bsky.social yesterday. With thoughtful questions from people affected by mental health issues, as well as mental health professionals, it was motivating to connect with people over a shared aspiration for better mental healthcare.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Great talk today from @mariekebigg.bsky.social @conwayhall.bsky.social about her book NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL. The greatest risks to our mental health: powerlessness, threat and having our understanding of ourselves dismissed. I’ll be speaking on HER NAME IS ALICE at Conway Hall in the autumn

Two done book covers the first on the left is bright red with the writing in white authors name Marieke Bigg, appears at the top, the main image is a blister packet of pills with five of the six pills pushed out and the title of the book ‘no such thing as normal’ showing through the empty blister holes. the subtitle of the book appears beneath this image ‘disorders diagnoses and the limits of psychiatry’. Below this there is a quote “stimulating and timely. Adroitly skewers psychiatry’s tendency to pathologise behaviours considered “abnormal” Daniel Tammet

On the right is the second book. The cover in white, at the top is the author’s name Caroline Litman. The main image is a picture of a young child wearing grungy clothes, in sunglasses, carrying a bright pink handbag about to get into a car. Across the photo is written the title of the book in bright yellow “her name is Alice.”There is a quote “thoughtful beautiful and incredibly necessary” Sofie Hagan. the subtitle of the book appears at the bottom: my daughter transition and why you must remember her.

A couple of paragraphs from Her Name Is Alice

CAROLINE LITMAN

Me too, I say.

This is our mutual wish: for Alice's actions to have been considered, that she made a choice whilst of her own mind, unadulterated by psychoactive substances that made her temporarily insane. If you can agree that suicide, in and of itself, isn't always the result of insanity, by definition. We want her to have had agency. We want to believe that her choice was rational, given the insurmountable barriers being placed in her path, the value, or lack of it, that society seems to place on trans existence.

This idea that Alice got what she wanted, comforts us at first, but our grief deludes us. Death is an escape, that is all.
What she wanted and deserved was to live her life free of judgement and fear, as she knew she needed to.

This line of discussion untaps something deep inside I begin to…

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

More of us are diagnosed with psychiatric conditions than ever before. Are we getting sicker? Or is there something else going on. Come and listen to me speak this Sunday! www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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No Such Thing as Normal - Conway Hall

We are diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Dr Marieke Bigg asks: how can we ...

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm really happy that my book, No Such Thing as Normal, is out in the world. I hope it helps shape the discussions around how we build a more humane mental healthcare system. @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My new book is out today!

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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#mentalhealth #psychiatrists | Louise Chunn

Introducing Marieke Bigg, PhD who wowed today's Welldoing.org CPD with her critical analysis of the biomedical model of #mentalhealth as practised by #psychiatrists. Her book No Such Thing As Norm...

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Marieke Bigg @mariekebigg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It feels like a timely moment for this talk, with compassion for people with differing or additional needs at an all time low across the world. Come and join me on 1 June at Conway Hall in London to rethink mental healthcare. @profilebooks.bsky.social www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

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No Such Thing as Normal - Conway Hall

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