Prof James Davies 💭

@JDaviesPhD · Uni of Roehampton, London · joined 23 May 2019

Dad-Husband-Writer - Professor of Psychology & Psychotherapy (Ph.D @UniofOxford). Practicing Psychodynamic/Humanistic Psychotherapist (UKCP). Previous NHS.

46 093Followers

228Following

8 136Posts total

136KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD12 Sep

What helped you through a period of severe mental/emotional distress, and was not a drug, a therapist, or an act of consumption? 108.7K views · 399 likes · 49 reposts · 990 replies Open on X →

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD11 Sep

Uber-therapy companies appear quite happy to subordinate the long-standing clinical & ethical principles that make therapy work to the dehumanising, transactional & rapacious logic of the market. In that model, the outcomes that matter most aren't clinical but financial. 3.7K views · 58 likes · 10 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD10 Sep

How will the great Trump bribe be funded? - well, with treasury borrowing, increased deficits &/or printing money, fuelling massive inflation (partly to reduce the debt burden), which will evermore impoverish the average American person.... 1.6K views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD8 Sep

A staggering quarter of the population gets prescribed psych-drugs in any given year. Yet, we still hear diehard psychs talking of an 'under-prescribing' problem - how hard it is for so many people to 'get the [drug] help they need'. For those at the back: a 1/4 of the population 3.7K views · 114 likes · 29 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD29 Jul

A BetterHelp advert on the London Tube last week concludes that switching one therapeutic relationship for another is no more psychologically meaningful than switching trains at Waterloo. Welcome to the unashamed Uber-isation of therapy. https://t.co/uCBD8BANrE

18.3K views · 201 likes · 40 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhD3 Jun 2021

Hi folks, I'm very proud to say that my book, Sedated, is released today! I've done everything within my power to write a book worthy of your time - one that illuminates via interviews, stories & research why our mental health sector is broken & how we may put it right again. 1/5

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Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 695this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.02%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.69%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 695	924	4.00×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.02%	3.62%	2.21×
Engagement rate	1.69%	1.52%	1.11×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

18.3K29 Jul

3.7K8 Sep

1.6K10 Sep

3.7K11 Sep

108.7K12 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.41%29 Jul

4.45%8 Sep

0.74%10 Sep

2.06%11 Sep

1.32%12 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes34.7%780 in total

Reposts5.7%129 in total

Replies46.3%1 039 in total

Bookmarks13.2%297 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.