Prof Linda Gask
@suzypuss.bsky.social
Writer and almost retired academic psychiatrist who lives in Orkney www.lindagask.com agent: GrahamMawChristie
Just watched a great webinar on women & suicide with @suzypuss.bsky.social and Pauline Turnbull (NCISH). Thanks to both for highlighting older women, & the webinar. Aware of how we don't always capture early life experiences in assessments so they're missing from formulations but are so important.
When women are asked what they would most like from mental healthcare professionals, they are in no doubt that what they want is to be treated with respect, dignity and compassion. Sadly, we know these are too often lacking. Another excellent blog ProfLinda Gask www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Towards a feminist psychiatry | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Towards a feminist psychiatry
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www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/wh... Interesting blog where @suzypuss.bsky.social makes the case for integrated (mental and physical) women's health
Engender blog | Guest Post: Why we need an integrated health care strategy for women
In this guest blog, Engender member Linda Gask explores the need for a coordinated approach to women’s physical and mental health.
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We know that our mental & physical health are intertwined, so why does the Scottish Government approach tackle them separately? In this guest blog, Linda Gask explores the need for a coordinated approach to women’s physical & mental health. Read it here: www.engender.org.uk/news/blog/wh...
My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...
Doctoring the evidence
‘You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease, biology doesn’t care.’ Professor Matthew Schrag, Vand…
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My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...
Doctoring the evidence
‘You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get a degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease, biology doesn’t care.’ Professor Matthew Schrag, Vand…
lindagask.com
She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...
She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated.
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trying to think of good UK-Based Nature Phenomena. so far I got: - starling murmurations in Somerset - bluefin tuna jumping in Cornwall - salmon jumping in NE England what else. more ideas pls. ideally ones which aren't jumping fish
Bring back the Family Doctor was a Labour Party manifesto promice Tories promised 5000 and 6000 more GPs (they failed) ‘Your GP, here for you’ can be a future promise more details here bsky.app/profile/drst...
Dr Steve Taylor@drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 9mo agoLet’s really ‘Bring back the Family Doctor’ Wes Streeting with a real patient focused contract & real funding to make it happen Patients want to see GPs & GPs want to see patients Your GP, here for you - time to make it happen, it’s in your hands dauk.org/our-call-for...
Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack
Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy
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If you have read my book, please do leave review on Amazon and/or Goodreads! Thank you
What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments
We need to talk about women’s centres
‘Women’s centres should not be part of the criminal justice system.’ 'The idea that if something is painted pink and has the tagline of ‘empowering women’ then it is helping women, is not only harmful but is simplistic and dangerous.' So says Dr Gemma Ahearne from the University of Liverpool in her blog The Problem with Women’s Centres…
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perfect column on Nigel Farage's racist, schoolboy past, by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. "The boy haunts the man." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Was Nigel Farage a bit of a Nazi? Only he knows
The Reform leader was a teenager when he made crass remarks but we’re entitled to ask a would-be prime minister what lay behind them
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What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments
We need to talk about women’s centres
‘Women’s centres should not be part of the criminal justice system.’ 'The idea that if something is painted pink and has the tagline of ‘empowering women’ then it is helping women, is not only harmful but is simplistic and dangerous.' So says Dr Gemma Ahearne from the University of Liverpool in her blog The Problem with Women’s Centres…
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Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...
Towards a Feminist Psychiatry - Professor Linda Gask - Institute of Mental Health
The Institute of Mental Health is one of the leading mental health institutes in the UK, offering leadership and innovation backed by world class expertise.
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short video recorded for the Orkney Arts Society Foy this autumn...
A reviewer spends two paragraphs saying why a book needn’t be so long …
A very generous review from Dr Ruby Osorio: Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change By Linda Gask. Cambridge University Press. 2024.- www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change By Linda Gask. Cambridge University Press. 2024. £15.00 (hb). 312 pp. ISBN 978-1009382465 | The British Journal of Psychi...
Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change By Linda Gask. Cambridge University Press. 2024. £15.00 (hb). 312 pp. ISBN 978-1009382465 - Volume 227 Issue 6
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We need gender-sensitive mental health care My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination:…
We need gender-sensitive mental health care
My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination: ‘A male body is the human body; all those extra things women have are studied in ob/gyn’. That was at a time when there was no imperative even to include women in randomised controlled trials of treatment, and they were excluded for many more years because the impact of their pesky hormonal fluctuations got in the way of standardising groups and making comparison between subjects.
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We need gender-sensitive mental health care My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination:…
We need gender-sensitive mental health care
My medical education, more than 40 years ago, was centred around the male body as the normative human being. As the American feminist and legal activist Catherine Mackinnon wrote only a few years later in Difference and Dominance: on sex discrimination: ‘A male body is the human body; all those extra things women have are studied in ob/gyn’. That was at a time when there was no imperative even to include women in randomised controlled trials of treatment, and they were excluded for many more years because the impact of their pesky hormonal fluctuations got in the way of standardising groups and making comparison between subjects.
lindagask.com
Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...
Towards a Feminist Psychiatry - Professor Linda Gask - Institute of Mental Health
The Institute of Mental Health is one of the leading mental health institutes in the UK, offering leadership and innovation backed by world class expertise.
institutemh.org.uk
