Asylum Magazine

Cover photo of Asylum: the radical Mental Health Magazine. A pixilated hand enters the frame from bottom right, held up with the inex finger pointing upwards, and fingers and thumb opened loosely. To the left is the phrase, written in red capitals "PROTEST IS THE PUREST FORM OF LOVE IN A WORLD THAT INSISTS ON ITS OWN SABOTAGE". Below in italicised capital letters are the words "STOP PALANTIR!"

If mental health is important to you then support this this publication, it's such an important voice!

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With AI Chatbots As Therapists, We Can All Be Patients Chatbots, with constant availability and user-centric conversation style, are widening the reach of “therapeutic culture.”

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A really interesting blog on how the use of AI Chatbots As "Therapists" makes the "therapeutic culture" more entrenched in our lives and what this means for our human relationships and sense of community

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Book Launch 💥💥

A really important book for the psychiatric survivor/Mad movement ❤️

Online launch on Friday 17th April 2026, 5pm GMT

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title: Sane Emotional Experience subtitle: Borderline Revolt blog title: Tenderly Borderline Background is from a protest against the killing of Jordan Neely by the police

hey all, check out my first piece on Mad studies! it was published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social in 2024. the essay looks at the construction of dominant emotional experience—how those diagnosed with borderline are oppressed because of “Sane Emotional Experience.” open.substack.com/pub/tenderly...

Briefing launch: The risks of Palantir in the NHS - Medact Calendar Join us for a webinar launch of our report on the risks of Palantir in the NHS and how you can resist its encroachment into our health system and the UK state.

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You may find this blog relevant to what we spoke about above

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btw I'd say for discussions on co-production it's extremely important to set boundaries as the risk of extractive behaviour and exploitation is high. As is danger of careless treatment of those involved in collaboration and partnerships. But it's not a term all will understand, or know how to action

Thank you very much for your thoughts here. I really appreciate what you are saying about *boundary setting and self care" and the need to look at these critically. *Self-care* in particular takes us away from more collective and community based/communal forms of care

I ❤️❤️❤️ this. Good points, excellently made. Only thing I'd add is sometimes our solutions are still rooted in the Westernised, commodified approaches we're seeking to dismantle (e.g. 'boundary setting & self care'). Doesn't invalidate them, but is worth considering from a critical perspective.

The price of participation: co-production and lived experience in a capitalist mental health system If we are to reclaim our collective agency, we must insist that co-production becomes more than a symbolic inclusion.

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Another interesting blog via @nsunnews.bsky.social

How my thirst for knowledge and a hearing voices group aided in my recovery — TACFLE - The Australian Centre for Lived Experience I can trace my mood symptoms back to when I was 15. I progressively became more and more depressed and was prescribed antidepressants to alleviate the symptoms. Mood episodes continued to come and go ...

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An interesting blog via @nsunnews.bsky.social

Dismissal, Retaliation, and Institutional Betrayal: A Qualitative, Survivor-Led Study Exploring the Systemic Failures of NHS Mental Health Complaints Systems A Qualitative, Survivor-Led Study Exploring the Systemic Failures of NHS Mental Health Complaints Systems

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i’m in this magazine!

i will be presenting my work in the launch event mentioned in Asylum’s post. feel free to sign up to hear me speak! please subscribe to Asylum to read the full issue. if you would like a copy of my essay “The Politics of Anti-Sanity,” please DM me your email ♥️

@asylummagazine.bsky.social is celebrating its 40th year this year ❤️
The anniversary Spring 2026 Issue is out!

We are having its online launch on 23 March at 6pm GMT
Registration link:
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Come and join us❤️

the cover of the spring 2026 issue of Asylum magazine. The title: Protest is the purest form of love in a world that insists on its own sabotage. Stope Palantir!

the table of contents of the spring 2026 issue of Asylum Magazine.

next month, my essay “The Politics of Anti-Sanity” will be published in @asylummagazine.bsky.social. the essay expands mad critique beyond psychiatry to the wider dominance of sanity as a form of power. if you would like a copy of my article, please reply or DM me your email and i’ll send it to you.

Halifax Skircoat Lodge abuse survivors speak out Two women who were sexually abused at Skircoat Lodge in Halifax in the 1990s tell their stories.

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Hello friends and allies
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We'd be very grateful for a repost about the Centre for Mad Culture UK survey, open for responses until 23 Feb.
🙏 Julia

BMMUK Round Table | Episode 3: Do You Have to be Unwell to Get Help? YouTube video by BLACK MINDS MATTER UK

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My admission left me more disabled: units must stop ignoring our physical health Physical health and mental health should not, and cannot, be siloed in the way they constantly are by society and the state.

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A really poignant piece about how the physical health needs of people are neglected when people enter the mental health system

Lessons from the Margins: How Migrants are Redefining Mental Health

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A podcast with Sohail Jannesari, migration researcher and activist

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

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Disabled students still face barriers, research finds, just as ministers prepare to publish SEND white paper Disabled young people in the UK still face barriers that stop them taking part in school, college and university on an equal basis with non-disabled people, despite ongoing international calls for …

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DWP actions blamed in string of claimant deaths, coroner reports reveal A DAMNING coroner’s report has concluded that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) played a significant role in the suicide of a vulnerable young woman, Tamara Jade Logon.This case is the latest...

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Every Health Professional Must Watch This | Paula McGowan OBE YouTube video by Believe in People

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A podcast looking at Autism, Addiction and safety in care