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?

What? Who?

There have been serious concerns expressed about her for years. Not least that she calls herself a psychologist when she has never actually trained or practised as a psychologist as understood by 99.9% of the population.

The worst psychologist I met was newly qualified in clinical psychology. She damaged practically every young person she saw and continues to do so.

So I don't think lack of qualifications is necessarily a problem. The people Dr Taylor sees should be the ones judging her abilities, not her bitchy peers in the profession.

Having said that I think it should be made clear whether someone is a registered clinical psychologist or not.

I can't remember the details but I remember there were ethical concerns about her not having got consent to share information a few years ago. Can't remember where the information had come from

I remember her nonsense claim that people were trying to shoot her with a gun through the garden fence/bush. Complete fantasist she is.

I get what you mean… but surely it’s not great that she seems to imply she’s qualified clinically when she just appears to have a research qualification.

If a person with a PhD in diabetes was alluding to ‘seeing patients’ and giving dangerous advice, I don’t think it would be bitchy for a medical dr to point that out.

From what I recall, she published personal accounts/stories provided to her by vulnerable people without their permission and without crediting them.

My friend has a PhD, she calls herself a psychologist. And I can't deal with it! Drives me nuts.

That's right, yes.

Yeah she's a classic grifter and dangerous.

Yes… There always seems to be a tad too much drama for me to take her seriously… How many stalkers has she had now?

Too many to count.

This is an interesting read:

Multiple stalkers allegedly but all people who have called her out.

it’s not bitchy to point out dangerous opinions or questionable behaviours.

Thats all Kerry has done.

Thats all Tattle has done too. Despite its reputation I’ve seen worse stuff posted here .

I didn't know that about her, however, as someone who takes issue with the profession itself, she is going to be a target for people who want to tear her down.

I think she makes some interesting points but I do wonder about the social media attention she seems to drive.

She's a Grifter. And basically a Poundland feminist. I imagine she would call that "classist" i.e. shift critique rather than address the accusation. She's also a misandrist. But who cares. It's all magazine feminism.
Whatever. Next.

Not surprised in the slightest.

Juicy article wasn’t it?

I think Jessica Philips is a narcissist and shows a lot of signs of being an abuser herself

and a massive grifter

She's a grifter. Unfortunately, she's been getting away with it for years because when anyone challenges her she silences them with public accusations of misogyny, homophobia or classism.

I was a bit concerned about her for a few years then she fell off my radar. I was mostly worried by how little she tried to remind people that she is not clinically qualified. I don't mean she actively hid that on a website or anything, but she would give quotes or contribute to articles without that being made explicit and I note she didn't seem to have any ethical difficulties with that. But then, if you're not a clinically qualified and registered psychologist, why would we be surprised she doesn't share the same ethical practices? That's what an HCPC registration protects. Completely agree that 'psychologist' should be a protected title, not just the different iterations of clinically practicing psychologists.

Apologies, didn't appear to have posted.

I was a bit concerned about her for a few years then she fell off my radar. I was mostly worried by how little she tried to remind people that she is not clinically qualified. I don't mean she actively hid that on a website or anything, but she would give quotes or contribute to articles without that being made explicit and I note she didn't seem to have any ethical difficulties with that. But then, if you're not a clinically qualified and registered psychologist, why would we be surprised she doesn't share the same ethical practices? That's what an HCPC registration protects. Completely agree that 'psychologist' should be a protected title, not just the different iterations of clinically practicing psychologists.

Shes a pathological liar. I knew her from online feminist groups many years back and nothing she said ever rang true. Shes given 3 sets of GCSE grades, reframed ger hitherto perfect husband as an abuser, after she left him to get with her wife, has been at deaths door with malnutrition, found a rare tahitian pearl in Wales, been drugged, threatened with a gun, stalked, slept with her bank manager for a loan, been threatened by Chinese restaurant workers etc. She has no morals or ethics at all. I recall she would often start GoFundMe pages for anonymous women she knew, who needed money for home repairs, to escape violent exes etc. There was no proof these people existed. I hope Kerry's article is the start of the downfall of this grifter.

She’s awful.

She hides behind her crusade against tattle when in reality it’s because the site has exposed her lies.

If her PhD is in psychology, she is correct to do so. A person qualified in psychology with a medical qualification would be a psychiatrist.

Yes, but she strongly implies she is a clinical psychologist who practices psychology with people for a living. She is not, and she doesn't.