Dr Jessica Taylor #6 A personality rarer than her pearl

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Lol that's so funny how she controlled every little thing and gave her staff no authority. Why couldn't she trust her staff to post ? Sounds like she had a lot of qualified and experienced folks.

It feels like she really held back her staff and I'd imagine it's hard to see while you're there

Did she promise kots of opportubities for growth that never materialised ? Just be upsetting not to have control ro say in your work and her taking endless credit and using staff to get her name out there. Her crappy reputation and image in the public.
 
SavannahS said:
Did she promise kots of opportubities for growth that never materialised ?
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Yeah, you were promised paid overtime, which you didn't get paid for and she said that you could let her know how many hours you were working and she'd contract you and pay you for them. She didn't though. She just let you continue working twice as much as your contracted hours for no extra pay.

Over two thirds of my week was taken up by pointless meetings that went on for up to 4/5 hours sometimes. The meetings basically just came down to Jess liking the sound of her own voice. She must be exhausting to live with.

She had a lot of very well qualified women working for her with a lot of experience. Those were the ones who didn't last long.
 
Jessterday said:
Ahhh flashback to the time I literally ended a meeting due to hunger because it ran so far past lunchtime, all while she chomped and talked away for hours on end. Blech.
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She was eating in the meeting while the rest of you sat there with no food? That's a degree of selfishness that I actually wouldn't have expected. It's so blatant.
 
Reminds me of a couple of her webinars I joined. She stopped part way through and passed to Jaimi so she could eat something. In my memory she alluded to some illness.

I do remember coming away from them not having learnt anything new.
In more than one I remember her going on about having a neuroscientist friend who she had conversations with about how we know nothing about the brain so can’t say anything about how it works in relation to trauma/mental health. She never backed this up and I remember thinking it was an odd thing to say without anything other than “my friend said”.
 
AccidentalAcademic said:
She was eating in the meeting while the rest of you sat there with no food? That's a degree of selfishness that I actually wouldn't have expected. It's so blatant.
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But she never actually stopped us from eating either, although you don't expect to need a packed lunch during a quick meeting that starts at 11am do you! It was always the unspoken expectations with her. She was really irritated with me that day but oh well.
 
Jessterday said:
But she never actually stopped us from eating either, although you don't expect to need a packed lunch during a quick meeting that starts at 11am do you! It was always the unspoken expectations with her. She was really irritated with me that day but oh well.
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That's nothing. I'd join a meeting at 9am and need to turn my camera off at 1 so I could make dinner.
 
SavannahS said:
I find this really interesting. I think I liked this article the first time she shared it...does she just recycle a few things again and again?

How old is this one? And why now?
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I think she published it around 2018-19? I guess it's just handy for her to recycle something while her blog is down and, yeah, it's certainly a convenient way to push her tweets about Nicola down the timeline
 
SavannahS said:
I find this really interesting. I think I liked this article the first time she shared it...does she just recycle a few things again and again?

How old is this one? And why now?
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The thing is with that it really just is anti particular cultures/Middle Eastern countries. This illustrates her very simplistic, childish thinking. It is like something a ten year old in a year 7 debating club would come up with.
 
Very good point..and you're right it is off to be judgemental and assume white or Anglo attitudes in her work. I'm not sure if that was the one I liked but there was one list of rules she had or something that had a viral quality that I liked maybe two years ago.

I guess she speaks to very basic style like I probably didn't probably read it but the comments were punchy and controversial and I was new to anti psychiatry. She seemed respected in those circles and has targeted a few advocates who seened to like her.

I think she's quite cslculsted in who she gets on her side, becsude it all gives the illusion of mainstream acceptance


And I guess it's not our fault for buying into her originally, image management is all shes about so that's literally her business.
 
ZiggyStardust68 said:
The thing is with that it really just is anti particular cultures/Middle Eastern countries. This illustrates her very simplistic, childish thinking. It is like something a ten year old in a year 7 debating club would come up with.
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There are few places in the world where women can't legally drive - even Saudi Arabia allows it now. The one about mobile phones is a really bad example. There are no countries in the world where all women are legally forbidden to own or use a mobile phone; some communities in India don't allow it for single women, but married women can have a phone and there are also restrictions on men's behaviour. And then she doesn't acknowledge things that actually systemically discriminate against men, such as a lack of mental health services (despite her bragging about TEF) or enforced national service for men only.

I notice she's been stepping up her anti-racism rhetoric too (tweeting in sympathy at someone who'd experienced racial hate, and saying something about the adultification of Black teenagers.) Is she seriously going to take that angle now? She's white and while she has at least one person of colour on her staff, we all know she hates listening to anyone else or giving them credit
 
Jessterday said:
But she never actually stopped us from eating either, although you don't expect to need a packed lunch during a quick meeting that starts at 11am do you! It was always the unspoken expectations with her. She was really irritated with me that day but oh well.
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I can imagine that, as her usual modus operandi is to keep the situation vague so that she has plausible deniability if ever questioned or challenged. No doubt if someone had complained about being hungry and not having adequate time to eat she would have pointed out that she'd never said they couldn't have food...even though scheduling a long meeting over a lunchtime without telling people to bring anything basically ensures they can't eat. She is so extremely self-centred that perhaps it never occurred to her that she wasn't the only one in the meeting who was hungry, and that her words aren't so powerful and intellectually nourishing that listeners willingly skip meals...
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BigYellow said:
That's nothing. I'd join a meeting at 9am and need to turn my camera off at 1 so I could make dinner.
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What exactly is the 'work' that goes on at VF if people have time to sit listening to Jessica's monologues like this? I can't imagine how anyone accomplishes anything.
 
Manipulation tactic :

"People write to me every week about it."

Which people, Jess? Where? Do you know they are really people?. Are they bots?Fans?


The statement is true but the manipulation is that she has personal interactions on the regular with people affected by this
.and we know she's not in the real-world offering front line services to people affected by stigmatisation in the MH system.

So ...where is she getting this information from and how is it verified ? It's not her statement or claim here but it's the manipulation to believe she has some special angle or insight into this because "people write to me." It's a meaningless claim.
 
But she has no particular knowledge of biopsychology, she only did a undergraduate degree which to be recognised by the BPS will have had minimal content in this area. She then went straight to her PhD which has no scientific content whatsoever. The neurotransmitters in the brain do behave differently in depression, there are literally thousands and thousands of studies to prove this. It's not that people have more or less of certain NTs, but they react and behave differently in depression and other conditions. She just shows her lack of knowledge by banging on about this constantly.
 
Here she is responding to holistic psych asking folk who their favourite therapist I, someone saying JT and she goes along with it.
Now legally anyone can call themselves a therapist, and even counsellor but ethically one needs relevant quals, which JT does not appear to have. This is quite dangerous.

 
SavannahS said:
Manipulation tactic :

"People write to me every week about it."

Which people, Jess? Where? Do you know they are really people?. Are they bots?Fans?


The statement is true but the manipulation is that she has personal interactions on the regular with people affected by this
.and we know she's not in the real-world offering front line services to people affected by stigmatisation in the MH system.

So ...where is she getting this information from and how is it verified ? It's not her statement or claim here but it's the manipulation to believe she has some special angle or insight into this because "people write to me." It's a meaningless claim.
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I wouldn't mind but there's plenty of studies about this, that in this case actually support what she's saying, but she can't be bothered to read or understand them because she cares about nothing more than the sound of her own voice.
 
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