Our cancellation survey has now closed. A big 'thank you' to all those who took part. Thanks to you we can start to understand the effects of cancel culture on mental health. We are grateful to @SpeechUnion and everyone who helped us promote the survey.

1/ Men need to find out *before* starting therapy if their therapist is male-centred or not. Ask the therapist the 3 questions at the end of this article ironshrink.com/2021/08/how-t… 2/ The training of therapists needs to be significantly improved in order to cater to male clients.

Telegraph analysis has shown how public services and universities have adopted the woke ideology of “equity” in place of equality, with the aim of giving minority groups a leg up. This should concern us all. The brutal stabbing of 18-year-old student Henry Nowak has triggered a national conversation about two-tier policing, racism and accountability. The term “equity” has become embedded within the state and its institutions, marking a subtle but significant shift in how public services treat different groups. The difference between equality and equity may appear merely semantic on the surface, but it is profound. Former Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner, has said that this conceptual leap from equality to equity is a disturbing development. She has also pointed out that in the UK it is equality — not equity — that is enshrined in law. While much recent attention has focused on policing, it should come as no surprise that equity-based policies have become increasingly embedded in universities and NHS trusts. David Rose, Director of Policy and Research at the Free Speech Union, believes the correction is already underway: “Unfortunately, analogous ideas derived from Critical Race Theory have come to be applied in other public spheres. “If the death of Henry Nowak can be said to have any positive aspect, it is that it may lead to a long-overdue re-evaluation of this ideology and its pernicious effects.” Read more below 👇

"Seven men die by suicide in Australia every day – more than 2,500 a year. In May 2026, the peak body for men’s health endorsed a plan to address this by teaching boys about gender equity." @TheRealMenToo

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

Mastectomy scars are now promoted to girls as something cool to aspire to. A 'look', a statement, a choice. So insulting to women who have no choice. So dangerous for vulnerable teen girls to sell them major surgery as just a fashionable change of image.

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We're excited to announce a new collaboration between Critical Therapy Antidote and Solid Ground. As part of this collaboration, approved CTA members are eligible for 30-Day Premier Access to the Solid Ground community, including: • Weekly professional peer support groups • Post-livestream discussions and consultation • Exclusive member content and resources • A growing network of clinicians, trainees, students, and allied mental health professionals Current CTA members can contact us for access instructions. Interested in joining CTA? Membership is open to qualified clinicians, trainees, students, and allied professionals who share our commitment to open dialogue and the healing ethos of therapy. Support. Discussion. Community. #MentalHealth #IdeologyNotPsychology #Psychology @JLeslieElliott @ryanMcRogers #Therapy #Counselors @Jaco_v_Z @SaveMHUK

Don't forget the popular but flawed idea that men's mental health problems are caused by traditional masculinity centreformalepsychology.com/…

Lucy Beney: "When the body is all that matters, alleviating distress too often leads to disguising, damaging and disowning it" Click here to read: save-mental-health.uk/articl… @ThoughtfulTs @FamEdTrust @stellaomalley3 @SuePHall

"Consensus is just the silence holding" is only one of the brilliant lines in this video.

This is wonderful news James! Many congratulations and welcome to your beautiful baby boy. 💕

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There is no such thing as a ‘diversity’ expert. Literally. DEI trainers aren’t qualified and face no oversight or accountability. Hence why they come out with so much rubbish. After Henry Nowak, we need to call time on this lunacy, says Tanya de Grunwald buff.ly/HA920zb

Is anxiety catching? There’s substantial evidence that anxiety can spread through social networks and culture. The nocebo (negative placebo) effect may help to explain this phenomenon: socially informed expectations of harm contribute to the development of symptoms. Feedback loops (such as stigma and secondary gains) then amplify and sustain anxiety. We see the nocebo effect elsewhere in socially transmitted illness, from mass episodes of fainting teenagers to wind turbine syndrome. I argue that we can apply it to the social transmission of anxiety, too. More in my latest piece on the long-form platform: matildagosling.substack.com/…

On the Solid Ground Podcast, CTA Co-Directors Christine Sefein-Wolk and Dr. Michael Olan discuss the potential harms that can arise when clinical work becomes shaped by ideology rather than curiosity, humility, and genuine inquiry. Michael also explores an often-overlooked reality: therapists themselves can be harmed when ideological frameworks replace clinical thinking, especially when they need therapy in a politicized field. 🎙️ Full Episode on YouTube - The Radical Center #Psychology #Psychotherapy #MentalHealth #CriticalTherapyAntidote @JLeslieElliott

What happens when language stops describing reality and starts creating it? Bret Alderman talks to Jaco van Zyl and Michael Olan on the CTA podcast: @DrBretAlderman @JLeslieElliott @ProfJonMills @ThoughtfulTs criticaltherapyantidote.org/…

What happens when a theory becomes a "skeleton key," claiming that it is capable of explaining everything? In this upcoming CTA conversation, Michael Olan, Jaco van Zyl, and Dr. Bret Alderman discuss postmodern thought, language, power, and the uneasy feeling that can arise when a framework claims to absorb every contradiction. Based in part on themes from Dr. Alderman's chapter in Woke: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology (ed. Jon Mills). Full episode out now on YouTube. #Psychology #Philosophy #Postmodernism #CriticalTherapyAntidote @DrBretAlderman @ryanMcRogers @JLeslieElliott @Jaco_v_Z @TherapyFirstOrg @SaveMHUK @ProfJonMills

🚨 Following tip-offs from supporters, CAF has intervened with both a prestigious UK university and a leading learned society over harassment frameworks that misstate the law and risk chilling lawful speech. In slightly different ways, both presented harassment as though it could be determined largely from the complainant’s perspective, while omitting two key elements of the statutory test: the wider circumstances of the case and whether it is reasonable for the conduct to have had the alleged effect. And we know from our casework where that leads: vexatious complaints about perfectly lawful speech, and investigation and disciplinary processes that too often become the punishment. We have decided not to name either institution because, in both cases, we are engaging constructively and hope to secure the changes necessary to bring their materials into legal and regulatory compliance while better safeguarding freedom of expression and protected belief. If you’re an academic, student, or member of the wider academic community and have encountered similar training materials, conduct codes or policies, CAF can offer advice or, where appropriate, make representations on your behalf. Contact us in confidence at: manager@afcomm.org.uk

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