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Drop the Disorder! Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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event in Birmingham, with psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone, to explore (and explode) the culture of psychiatric diagnosis in mental health. The notion that we all experience distress on a spectrum shifts the power away from a ‘them and us’ divisive concept (where one in four experience mental health difficulties) towards a four in four, inclusive ‘only us’ concept. She is a key figure in the international Hearing Voices Movement, has co-edited three books, published numerous articles and papers and is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. a question that encourages the framing of distress as an understandable reaction to trauma, adversity, or just the struggles we all face as human beings in a difficult world. And this book continues to highlight this as one of the most complicated parts of challenging the system. This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the AD4E events – bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge diagnosis.At that moment the patient was just initials to me on an ICU whiteboard, a label of what was wrong with them, with a long script of negative ‘warnings’ attached which made me fearful of sitting too close, let alone leaning in to truly hear who they were or what had happened to them. It draws on the expertise of those with experiential knowledge of the mental health system to review the past, challenge the present and explore how we might fight for a future, better way of responding to mental crisis and distress that places the service user at the centre. events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge psychiatric diagnosis.

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This unique contribution to the psychology literature remains accessible through compelling narratives, poetry and artwork. I feel enlivened by changes in my thought process and possibilities of working with a different mind-set. Jacqui’s survival of childhood abuse and subsequent experiences of using psychiatric services inform her work, and she is an outspoken advocate and campaigner for trauma informed approaches to madness and distress.This was just what our team needed to give us the confidence to challenge the damaging ways of responding to people that have sadly become so normal. International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (UK)– works to promote greater knowledge of the different psychological approaches to psychosis and psychotic experiences – psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, arts-based, family and holistic approaches – and their better integration with each other and with pharmaceutical approaches. it also helps me understand where some of my frustrations in the more recent awareness of mental health manifest. It then goes further by challenging the political and institutional process by asking how psychiatric diagnosis holds so much power and how can it be positively challenged before discussing the alternatives to diagnosis. All are justifiably impassioned and subversive; yet reasoned, full of wisdom, common sense and rigorous analysis, informed by the latest evidence on trauma and attachment.

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The Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project– provides information, resources, tools, and connecting platforms to facilitate more informed choices regarding all things “mental health”. Since then, they have delivered events in towns and cities across the UK, bringing together activists, survivors and professionals to debate psychiatric diagnosis. As such it marks a refreshing and pivotal departure from the dominant ‘illness’ narrative we have come as a society to accept unquestioningly, and to impose on other cultures. Everyone who is interested in social justice should read this book, and in so doing, will take it to their hearts and utilise its insights for the common good. It would require significant systemic change to de-medicalise mental ‘illness’ but the authors suggest three steps that individuals can take to help reduce the use of biomedical language: 1) use everyday words, 2) emphasise the context of ‘symptoms’ and 3) use speech marks around diagnostic language.She has personal and professional experience, awareness and skills in working with trauma and abuse, dissociation, ‘psychosis’, hearing voices, healing and recovery. It comprises information, approaches to healing and resources together with links to selected clinicians, organisations, projects and support groups. assembles a group of cutting-edge contributors to shine a light on some of the most contested issues of modern psychiatric practice. Jacqui has co-edited 3 books and has published numerous articles and papers, is on the editorial board of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches and the founder of the Beck Road Alliance (BRA) which exists to support survivors of organised childhood sexual abuse on Beck Road, Hackney, and all survivors everywhere, to share their testimonies of surviving childhood sexual abuse. The authors acknowledge that distress is a very real experience and argue that contextualising it in life stories and finding meaning can actually validate it further.

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