Dr Jessica Taylor

04/04/2026

I get this kind of question about my anti-pathology trauma work all the time - and so I thought I would make a video explaining my position - and also explaining why others don’t agree with me.

In my view, feminism is not; and can never be; compatible with psychiatry. Psychiatry has targeted and abused women and all other marginalised and oppressed groups since its inception. Psychiatry is not liberatory or radical, it is a form of medical social control.

Many feminists will fight against oppression and structural harm but then stop short at psychiatry and psychology - as if they are untouchable - but they are not.

‘Psychiatry is the patriarchy with a prescription pad’ - that’s a quote from my 2022 book in this topic, ‘Sexy But Psycho’ which explores the way women and girls are s*xualised and then medicalised when they express trauma and distress.

03/04/2026

Studies from 2016 onwards show that:

If juries perceive us as ‘overweight’ or ‘unattractive’ - they are more likely to find our ra**st not guilty. In these cases, studies with jurors found that they hold prejudice against the women they feel are overweight or undesirable or unnattractive - and therefore will not believe that she was r***d at all. They will question why a man would want to r**e her - because they fundamentally see r**e as an act of s*x instead of an act of violence.

However, pretty privilege does not exist in victims. If juries perceive us as ‘s*xy’, ‘pretty’, ‘desirable’ or ‘attractive’ - they are more likely to claim we led the ra**st on, and he couldn’t help himself - meaning they also return ‘not guilty’ verdicts.

Basically, research demonstrates that our body shapes and sizes will be used against us in court when we report abuse and r**e, no matter what we look like.

If you are interested in these studies and my work in this area, my first book ‘Why Women Are Blamed For Everything’ explores all of this and much more. Go and have a read!

02/04/2026

We need to be far more honest about this as a sector. If trauma-informed practice is to be more than a superficial rebranding exercise, it must involve a rejection of the pathologisation of trauma. It requires us to move away from diagnostic frameworks as the default response to human distress and to stop routing victims into systems that fundamentally misunderstand their experiences. It demands a complete reframing of distress as meaningful rather than disordered.

Anything less than that is not transformation. It is adaptation - or possibly even manipulation.

And right now, much of what is being presented as trauma-informed practice is simply the adaptation of existing systems to new language. The structures remain the same. The outcomes remain the same. Only the way we talk about them has changed.

If your practice still locates the problem inside the traumatised person, you are not trauma-informed. If you diagnose your clients, you are not trauma-informed. If you push medication, you are not trauma-informed. If you convince women to go to hospital or doctors when they are traumatised, you are not trauma-informed. You have just learned new words to describe the same old ideas.

I am throwing down the gauntlet.

Are you with me?

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02/04/2026

When women disclose abuse or r**e to their families, they expect some level of comfort, compassion and safety - but psychological research spanning back to the 1980s and up to the present day, still shows that the most common response from families is the ‘turning against’ response.

This is where the family collectively turns against the woman, accuses her of lying, ridicules her, blames her, shames her and then isolates her from the family.

It is incredibly important that both women and professionals know this statistic because - as depressing as it is - it’s actually the most common response we can receive.

I train lots of police officers and social workers; and I make sure to remind them that just because the family don’t believe or support the victim - doesn’t mean that they are correct. Often, professionals will seek the thoughts or testimonies of family members who will say that the woman is lying or exaggerating - but those professionals should be taught that this is precisely what we should expect in over 80% of cases - it doesn’t actually have any bearing on the truth of the case.

Follow me to learn more about blaming and pathologising of women and girls who have been abused.

01/04/2026

I’ve been a professional and personal mentor for three years this month - phew! That went fast…

The reason I set up the mentoring programme was because I would frequently receive emails and messages from women all around the world asking for my insight or for a discussion with me - and at the time, I was working so heavily with police, authorities and charities that I couldn’t help anyone.

In 2023, I decided to open up my diary a couple days a week and the rest is history!

I offer:

Personal mentoring
Professional and career mentoring
Female founder and entrepreneur mentoring
Author and writing coaching and mentoring
Academic and student mentoring
Case advice and consultations in all forms VAWG, trauma and abuse
Educational programmes for women who would like to learn more about their trauma responses and coping mechanisms

Give me a DM for links to my calendar 🗓️

30/03/2026

When someone starts telling me that their child ‘developed a mental disorder’ and ‘behavioural problems’ and ‘needs medication’ after being abused or traumatised - I have two options:

1. Stay quiet and don’t get into it
2. Launch into a detailed explanation of how this pathologises, labels, and problematises the child - meaning their trauma and distress is totally ignored in favour of psychiatric framing of them.

Hi! If you’ve gotten this far, my name is Dr Jessica Taylor and I am an anti-pathology, trauma-informed psychologist. My work argues that our emotions, behaviours, thoughts, responses and coping mechanisms always have a root and a purpose (even if it’s uncomfortable) and that framing everything as a mental disorder pathologises us all, medicates us all, and even excuses abusers and perpetrators whilst labelling victims.

29/03/2026

This is an extremely important piece of research by my good friend, Natalie Page. I know lots of women who are exes or current wives of men in the military, or are in the armed forces and services themselves too - follow my work.

Today the Daily Mail has published the findings of my two-year investigation "The Brass Pass" into the hidden epidemic of domestic abuse suffered by military wives and girlfriends.
A dossier of 52 cases reveals high-ranking Army husbands using brutal battlefield techniques: chokeholds, restraints, combat weapons, and even IED threats against the women they are supposed to protect.
The MoD has failed them.
Today the Daily Mail has published the investigation.

This isn’t random violence. It’s a pattern. A culture of violence that stretches from the battlefield to the bedroom.
Top brass write glowing character references that sway family courts. The Royal Military Police and welfare services close ranks to “protect our boys”.
Loyalty to the regiment is being placed above the law and basic human decency.

I’ve heard the same stories over and over: women strangled until they have strokes, pets maimed as warnings, military-grade tracking used to stalk them.
One survivor told me: “Rather than protecting the wives, they just go, ‘How can we cover this up?’”
This is a scandal of unprecedented scale — and it’s systemic.

Failed by the MoD: The wives tortured by Army husbands using brutal battlefield techniques

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15687825/Failed-MoD-wives-tortured-Army-brutal-battlefield-techniques.html =From%20%251%24s&aoh=17747662146776&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-15687825%2FFailed-MoD-wives-tortured-Army-brutal-battlefield-techniques.html

29/03/2026

In domestic abuse work, this pattern is well known. Threats of su***de are not rare. They are used deliberately. They are used to:

- stop someone from leaving
- force them to stay in contact
- make them feel responsible for someone else’s life
- create fear, guilt, and emotional captivity

“If you leave, I’ll kill myself.”

That sentence is about control and power - not love or romance. And when that threat is repeated, escalated, and eventually acted upon in direct response to separation, we have to be brave enough to say what that means. Even if that’s uncomfortable.

It means the abuse did not end when the relationship ended. The abuse did not even end, when the abuser died.

Often, this is the final act of abuse by the perpetrator - so that the victim is left dealing with not only the trauma and the abuse - but the family of the perpetrator blaming them, hating them and bullying them for the death.

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28/03/2026

That feeling is something that will always fascinate me. I’ve been there before. Twice. And I remember them both perfectly.

Something just twigs. Something just clicks inside. That final moment when any remaining feelings, love or loyalty to the abuser just melts away - and you see them clearly.

But they haven’t realised it yet. They think they will be able to treat you like that forever - and that you are going nowhere. But there is so much power in that moment - when you genuinely reach the point of no return - and decide that enough is enough - and that you must leave - and never ever come back.

And suddenly ‘you’ll never leave me’ stops sounding like a threat, and starts feeling like a challenge. Like they are goading you, or playing a game with you.

And you realise you are about to turn the tables and take back your power.

27/03/2026

Rest in Peace, Noelia

27/03/2026

Governments all over the world are failing women and girls. Male violence is ignored. Justice systems protect perps. Rapists and abusers never held to account.

But governments all over the world are encouraging psychiatric euthanasia of young women who are traumatised by r**e and abuse. Telling us that it is autonomy and choice.

Rest in peace Noelia Castillo Ramos.

The most common group referred for psychiatric euthanasia is YOUNG TRAUMATISED WOMEN.

I wrote a bestselling book on this topic back in 2022 and warned everyone this would increase - and it has. The book is called ‘Sexy But Psycho’

27/03/2026

We are told this is about dignity. About choice. About autonomy. But autonomy does not exist in a vacuum.

Choice!? This is not about choice!

What does ‘choice’ mean for a 25-year-old woman who has been gang-r***d, had no justice, ra**sts still out there living their lives, whilst she is institutionalised, pathologised, paralysed, and left to live in chronic pain?

What does ‘choice’ mean when every system she has encountered has failed to keep her safe, failed to support her, and instead labelled her responses as disordered?

What does ‘choice’ mean when the only consistent message she has received is: you are too much, too broken, too difficult to fix?

We need to be honest about what we are witnessing.

We are witnessing a system that cannot - or will not - provide the depth of trauma-informed, relational, long-term support that survivors need. And systems that will not address male violence - which is a common denominator in these cases.

And so, instead, it offers an exit - for the victim.

Rest in Peace, Noelia. Another young woman, euthanised after r**e and abuse.

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