On a lighter ‘note’. Our community choir performing at the Forest Gate Festival this summer. (I’m the one doing a bad Blues Brothers impersonation at the back.) Makes me happy for a moment amid the madness of our frightening world.

Gathering with a huge crowd in north London today to go knocking to make sure Labour wins the by election on Thursday and keeps out the anti-Semitic Green Party

Comprehensive, balanced, account of ECT debate in @Observer Huge regional variation in use. Failure of ECT psychiatrists to provide research demanded by NICE. Prof @RichardBentall: "If you don't do proper trials you end up with all sorts of dangerous stuff"

What a great conference!

Wonderful evening at mountain home of the amazing Luc Ciompi (97) overlooking Lake Geneve. Www.isps.org

Helene Speyer presents her research on shifting her psychiatry colleagues' attitudes towards right to come off antipsychotics (safely, supported) at isps.org conference in Lausanne

Luc Ciompi (97!) speaking at isps.org conference in Lausanne. A true pioneer

Www.isps.org Courtenay Harding in Lausanne