Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond | 
pickI expected to like Asylum Magazine, but turns out I loved it!
This Winter 2025 edition had a focus on the (mis)use of AI in therapy and mental health support, reflecting on the depersonalisation of state responses to impaired wellbeing, and the continued encroachment of corporate techbros and capitalist-patriarchal systems into our psyches.
There's also an article about the use of AI to assist self-expression of institutionally unacceptable ⬇️
"Sadly, a small minority of lesbian and gay organisations are trying to distance themselves from trans liberation. In my view, the LGBT+ movement deciding to exclude trans people would be like the psychiatric survivor movement excluding ‘schizophrenics‘, as people with that diagnosis have often been associated in the media with violent crime. Trans people, especially trans women, have been central to the gay liberation movement, just like ⬇️
This magazine dropped through the letterbox the other day: I'd forgotten I'd subscribed to it a couple of months ago, this being the first edition I've received.
It's a journal focusing on radical mental health perspectives, seeking to demedicalise mental health. The first article is an interview with a former clinical psychologist, who suffered a breakdown due to the stress of working in a micromanaged and target-driven, rather than wellbeing ⬇️
And there's a bit of poetry thrown into the mix, too 😊 4d