AIBU to be surprised by concerns raised about psychologist Jessica Taylor?

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I recently saw forensic psychologist Dr Kerry Daynes’s new article about Dr Jessica Taylor (research psychologist). I knew Jessica was a controversial figure but I’m pretty shocked by what I read (as well as learning about her lack of clinical qualifications).

“a colleague and I were contacted by commissioners at Warner Bros. Discovery, where I have worked as an on-screen expert and presenter for a decade, following complaints about Taylor’s advertised appearance on a series called The Fraudsters. My colleague, who had no prior knowledge of Taylor and had simply taken a cursory look at her PhD thesis and social media, told commissioners he “wouldn’t touch Jessica Taylor with a barge pole.” I told them I agreed. (He had, I thought, put it rather well.)

The following month, my regulatory body (the HCPC), informed me that Taylor had made a complaint about my fitness to practise. She alleged I had harassed her and shared rumours about her personal and family life.”

AIBU to be surprised by this?? And is there a way to get the title ‘psychologist’ protected?

She is very problematic. There were a couple of times I agreed with her in the past (and even then she made me feel very uneasy) but virtually everything she says is utter bollocks. Either harmful bollocks or downright dangerous bollocks.

I've never heard of her so looked her up and had to triple check I found the right person.

Because 5 days ago she posted about someone she knew calling themselves a doctor just because they can.

Haha oh god, the irony.

It's well known that she's used abuse survivor stories without the person's consent, and did so in order to grift.

Not sure what's supposed to be new?

What's new is her campaign against tattle life and her allegations that tattle users are stalking her and that they hounded a child into suicide and had an influencer's children removed and various other crazy libellous statements, and her new book that gives her dangerous and poor advice to victims of stalking based on her supposed expertise in the area as a victim and a 'psychologist' who carries out very poor and non evidence based 'research' and then uses it to manipulate and control the large numbers of vulnerable women who follow her into spending money on her trash books and courses to their own detriment. What's also new is that two influencers had a long standing court case against the owner of tattle that Dr Jess was very cock a hoop about as they 'won' only to have the judgement overturned because the plaintiffs and their legal representative had seriously misled the court. There is a fair amount new in the article by Kerry Daynes if you're interested.

Her behaviour around Tattle has been utterly ridiculous. I'm not a member but I lurk and read the posts and I've seen every single thing on the thread about Sophie May Dickson - out of the over 500 pages there was maybe one or two that crossed a line about her children but the rest was mostly ever concern for them. No wonder one of them had such poor mental health after being dragged across the world by her prostitute mother, exposed to sexual abuse, drug-taking, etc. and god knows what else. Dr Jess conveniently forgot to mention that the mother didn't even have custody of her child at the time she died, pretty sure social services won't remove children due to comments on a gossip site!

Nope. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who then completes specialist training in psychiatry (not psychology). Generally the term psychologist is used for applied psychologists (clinical, forensic, counselling) who have usually completed a doctorate in the relevant field (this is different to a PhD as contains a training component). A PhD is research based and usually doesn't lead to a professional title such as psychologist.

I'm only going off what my son's psychiatrist told me when I asked him "What's the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist?". But hey, what does he know?

I’m no expert but from a quickly search it seems that the above poster is correct, applied psychologists tend to have a professional doctorate. My understanding is that they are then identifiable on the HCPC (regulatory body) website.

This is different from a PhD, although most people don’t seem to know that (even health professionals).

The main difference seems to be that people with only a PhD are not regulated by anyone and so you can’t make complaints about them to a healthcare regulator. They also have no practical training, only research. This is easily verifiable

https://kerrydaynes.substack.com/p/unpopular-opinion-balancing-free

not sure if it’s new info but was very shocked to read

See also https://www.savageminds.co/p/a-psychologists-victim-ponzi-scheme?sd=pf&fbclid=IwZnRzaASGyfhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe0M-5ossF81Z6Q0OztNiwBJgu6YQ4XXHPPS0BlLqH8rQN5FUl22m9790n1gQ_aem_6zB409-Hg_i7ix0bCXDa1Q&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e233_tv2_tp1_a1demo0jgl1501

Well nothing, obviously as he is completely wrong. Either that or you got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Sadly absolutely anyone with no qualifications at all can call themselves a psychologist as it is not a protected title. Same with 'therapist' and 'counselor'