Lucinda Lidstone & Pelle Neroth Taylor on The Sonia Poulton Show - 07 February 2024

On today's show, Lucinda Lidstone discusses the rise in ADHD cases among children and adults, exploring concerns about the authenticity of some diagnoses. These concerns, attributed in part to factors like a robust benefit system, prompt deeper examination. Psychotherapist Lucinda Lidstone, who has voiced her own reservations regarding ADHD diagnosis and prevalence, provides her perspective. Later, Pelle Neroth Taylor delves into the topic of multiculturalism in Sweden, touching on media representation, freedom of speech, and academic censorship.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Lucinda began her early career working with adults in NHS Primary care with brief cognitive intervention and later moved to a more clinical setting in Private Mental Health on inpatient wards and in an outpatient day hospital. Here she supported both Adults and Adolescents in Crisis with severe presentations such as Eating Disorders and Hearing Voices, providing both individual and group therapy. Lucinda has also been in private practice for a number of years; concerned about a lack of provision for adolescents she founded ASC to support young people and their families in the South Essex area. Lucinda values research and new ideas and encourages talking and thinking about mental health & emotional wellbeing through the ASC monthly Podcast ‘ASCit’. She has developed a further service for adults who wish to explore their spirituality and expand personal awareness and consciousness.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Pelle Neroth Taylor started his career writing for the Economist from the Baltic States in the early 1990s, a time of post-communist chaos in eastern Europe. He has been a close and interested observer of European current affairs ever since. Having lived in Brussels, Prague, London (his native city) and now Sweden, he has had articles published in the Lancet, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, Financial Times and the European. He also worked editing shifts at the Guardian, the Times, the FT Group, and the Independent on Sunday. For ten years he was a columnist on European affairs for E&T magazine. Since spending more time in Sweden, he has made several documentary films, two of which are featured on Amazon Prime (Sweden, Dying to be Multicultural and Cancel Nation), and written several ebooks, including What did you do in the war Sweden? and the Life and Death of Olof Palme. He lives in a small Swedish town with his girlfriend and a twelve-year-old cat.