Other Stuff

Here’s a selection of my journalism, essays, talks and radio.

  • Why you should ignore superlatives on book jackets

    ‘Tell me what happened, I won’t judge’: how AI helped me listen to myself

    August 2025, The Guardian

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  • One to One with Sara Pascoe

    November 2023, BBC Radio 4

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  • Why you should ignore superlatives on book jackets

    How AI could rewrite the future

    November 2023, The Guardian

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  • Why you should ignore superlatives on book jackets

    Mental health care: where did it all go so wrong?

    January 2014, The Guardian

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  • Word of Mouth

    May 2022, BBC Radio 4

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  • A Good Read

    February 2022, BBC Radio 4

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  • Modern-Day Sin-Eaters

    September 2021, Psychology Today

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  • What Is This Sudden Urge to Kiss Someone

    September 2021, Psychology Today

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  • Mad fiction: who has the right to write what?

    December 2020, Asylum Magazine

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  • The Language of Madness Lecture

    May 2020, Faber Talk

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  • Why we need to move the mental health conversation beyond ‘stigma’

    June 2019, HuffPost

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  • Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrong

    May 2019, The Guardian Books

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  • The Mind in the Media

    March 2017, BBC Radio 4

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  • On a wing and a prayer

    On a wing and a prayer

    April 2015, The Guardian Weekend

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  • Rules of Engagment

    Rules of Engagement

    November 2014, The New York Times

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  • TEDx Logo

    TEDx Talk

    November 2014, Bath

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  • Why you should ignore superlatives on book jackets

    Why you should ignore the superlatives on book jackets

    July 2014, The Guardian

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