Mental Health Archives

Psychiatric Drugs: Two Stories About How They Work
Why a Drug-Centered Lens Matters

For decades, the dominant story about psychiatric medication has sounded reassuringly simple: “You’re depressed because of a chemical imbalance. This...

6th January 2026

Restoring Clinical Clarity: Why We Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Say ‘Mental Illness’

In recent years, the term mental illness has become so stigmatised that counsellors, psychotherapists, and mental health practitioners are now being...

7th November 2025

The therapist’s duty of care versus client autonomy

Working with clients in the counselling context is a complex process. The ethical therapist must always hold the balance...

4th November 2025

Genspect Submission to NHS England LGBT+ Health Evidence Review

Genspect has provided evidence to the NHS England LGBT+ Health Evidence Review, which can be read in full below;...

29th August 2025

When Therapists Become Ideologues

It’s not your imagination—some therapists are pushing extreme biases, as witnessed in the article below. Such unprofessional conduct and...

28th August 2025

Affirmation OR Assessment

Until recently, “gate keeping” expressed the simple idea that qualified individuals would determine the best course of medical intervention...

18th February 2025

For Girls and Women with Gender Dysphoria, Solidarity from a Surprising Source

As a teacher and a professional in sociology and counseling, I underwent life-altering treatment for aggressive breast cancer from...

15th September 2024

Lost in Cyber Space: Girls, Boys, and The Anxious Generation
Girls will be girls and boys will be boys online — even if they don't identify that way

One deeply unfashionable thing I do in my research is to group girls together, regardless of how they identify....

26th July 2024

Transition in the Family: Children Need Protection, Sometimes Even from their Own Fathers

When I was growing up, Stephen, who was the same age as me and the son of a neighbour,...

20th July 2024

Shadows of Doubt: Peering into the Void of Gender Identity

A man chronicles his descent into gender obsession—and gets some useful advice on r/detrans: My heart is racing constantly...

10th July 2024

I Lost a Job I Loved Because I Cried About Pride in the Staffroom

Over the course of a year or so, while watching my trans-identified child’s mental health plummet, flags and posters...

27th June 2024

Why Depressed Children Shouldn’t Be Given Puberty Blockers

When I heard of “puberty blockers” being given to healthy children I was astonished. My own experience with hormone...

11th June 2024

Holding the Space for Exploratory Therapy with Gender-Questioning Clients

The Cass Review for the UK NHS has sharpened wider awareness of the ongoing controversy over exploratory therapy for...

26th May 2024

Escaping Masculinity

I learned to associate everything negative in this world with men and masculinity. Women were associated with love, peace,...

9th May 2024

Reflections on the Cass Report

This is an area of remarkably weak evidence, and yet results of studies are exaggerated or misrepresented by people...

17th April 2024

Rethinking Mental Healthcare: A Call for Comprehensive Reform

America’s mental health system is in dire need of an overdue makeover. With the persistent surge of mass shootings...

12th April 2024

Informed Consent Is Critical in Healthcare, But Apparently Not to Activist Gender Clinicians

“If it’s not documented, it didn’t happen” and many other lessons were taught during my graduate education and training...

5th April 2024

They Pushed Me into this Ideology and Tried to Keep Me There Forever

I somehow ended up here, typing this thing, contemplating life choices, and struggling with my mental health. Let’s rewind...

30th March 2024

Redefining Gender Identity: A Call for the Return of “Cross-Sex Identity Disorder”

Much has been written criticising the concept of “gender identity,” however, the concept is already changing into “gender incongruence.”...

17th March 2024

Feeling like an Imposter Before, During and After Transition

Because my research focuses in part on experiences of feeling like an imposter, the subject of “passing” as a...

19th January 2024

Parenting within the minefield of sex and gender

This piece explores the highly contentious issues that impact parents of gender-distressed children Parents of gender-distressed children should probably...

3rd January 2024

Parenting the gender-distressed child in 2024

What is facing parents of gender-distressed children this coming year? For those of us who have lived in...

31st December 2023

“T is the key that opens the gate holding back the flood”: When transition isn’t helping

Research online trans communities and you develop an ear for contradiction: Life got worse after transitioning, but not because...

27th October 2023

Fetishistic Transition: A Detransitioned Man’s Case Study

Note: This article discusses explicit fantasies. Reader discretion is advised. This is the concerning story of a young male-to-female (MTF)...

6th October 2023

Gender Affirmation and the Nocebo Effect

One of the biggest myths of gender affirming care is that if parents don’t affirm their child as transgender,...

18th September 2023

The New Gay-Conversion Therapy: A Psychologist’s Perspective

Gay-conversion therapy is a thing of the past. It comprised psychological interventions intended to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals. Critics...

6th September 2023