Prof Linda Gask (@suzypuss)

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…

My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research

lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...

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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…

My latest blog: reviewing Charles Pillers Doctored- with reflections on the quality of mental health research

lindagask.com/2026/02/09/d...

10.02.2026 21:39 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated.

She Listened to Women’s Pain. Then She Transformed How It Was Treated. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...

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‘Thank you’ to you all for being here this year. X

25.12.2025 10:05 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas in another Celtic nation

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We went to see it at the cinema last Christmas - of course it is

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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

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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

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Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy

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/...

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If you have read my book, please do leave review on Amazon and/or Goodreads! Thank you

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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…

What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments

27.11.2025 17:17 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations!

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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

perfect column on Nigel Farage's racist, schoolboy past, by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. "The boy haunts the man." www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Apologies!! Typos

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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…

What's going on with women's centres... ? lets start a conversation please. would love to hear from other countries to about similar developments

27.11.2025 17:17 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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.

Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures
institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...

29.10.2025 10:56 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

short video recorded for the Orkney Arts Society Foy this autumn...

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A reviewer spends two paragraphs saying why a book needn’t be so long …

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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

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...

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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: ‘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.

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:…

31.10.2025 17:24 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

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.

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:…

31.10.2025 17:24 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

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.

Here is a link to my recent talk for the Centre for Social Futures
institutemh.org.uk/research/cen...

29.10.2025 10:56 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Sheltering books from the Northern weather

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50 years ago came up here with a full backpack to the Youth Hostel. More sedate pace today #199steps #Whitby

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My latest blog - on menopause and mental health

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Porridge is a serious business!

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My latest blog - on menopause and mental health

06.10.2025 08:27 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Menopause, moods – and me There are times when traditional feminist thought does women no favours. In her recent ‘against the stream’ article ‘The Menopause transition, a call for a holistic approach’ Rachel Gibbons quotes from Germaine Greer – a heroine of mine in the 1970s: ‘ a view of menopause as a catastrophe […]. If women on the youthful side of climacteric could glimpse what this state of peaceful potency might be, the difficulty of this transition would be lessened.’

How menopause should be truly biopsychosocial - and the importance of listening to women

05.10.2025 11:42 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Menopause, moods – and me There are times when traditional feminist thought does women no favours. In her recent ‘against the stream’ article ‘The Menopause transition, a call for a holistic approach’ Rachel Gibbons quotes from Germaine Greer – a heroine of mine in the 1970s: ‘ a view of menopause as a catastrophe […]. If women on the youthful side of climacteric could glimpse what this state of peaceful potency might be, the difficulty of this transition would be lessened.’

How menopause should be truly biopsychosocial - and the importance of listening to women

05.10.2025 11:42 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Prof Linda Gask

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