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Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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And with that in mind, I feel it might be worthy to continue this review aligned to the personal storytelling theme from the book within my own story. 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. As this patient looked me in the eye with what took considerable effort to fight the level of sedation they were under, they asked me… “What can you actually do for me, how can you help me, you look like a teenager, how can you help someone of my age, how can you understand what I’ve been through? And psychotherapy is always based on that, the victim is to change, and no one else is to be held accountable.

But equally, from a more political or sociological position I’ve often found when systemic change is mentioned, I become instinctively interested in the movements that challenge or seek to empower what might be described as “disadvantaged groups”. I live in a place where cultural norms are much more accepting of LGBT, of “sexual diversity,” of gender, and a bit more tolerant in regard to identity politics, so I guess I haven’t thought about it’s impact and connection to psychiatric diagnostic labels much, but I can certainly see there is a deep stigma. But the current promotional pitch of raising awareness often feels like it just reinforces a greater attachment to the label for me. I highly recommend it to anyone questioning their psychiatric diagnosis or the psychiatric medications they've been prescribed. I made my Recovery in (detail removed) in 1984 as a result of (carefully) coming off strong medication with the help of Psychotherapy.Lucy then talked the audience—a mixture of professionals, current and former ‘service users’, carers and interested lay people—through a critique of diagnosis and an overview of the alternatives. 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.

This of course makes no philosophical sense as there is no psychotherapeutic theory that is compatible with the medicalisation of distress! Finally, spoken word artist Jasmine Gardosi ended the day by bringing one of my own poems—inspired by voice hearer and activist Eleanor Longden—to life. explicitly communicates, there is not a single person that can be fully understood or uniquely experienced within a single word, diagnosis, or label. Including a chapter from our Founder, Lisa Thompson, exploring moving 'towards a trauma-informed approach with people who have experienced sexual violence.In my opinion, therapy should be a place where concerns central to antipsychiatry (if one is has issues with psychotropics) should be safely presented, articulated, and processed. So, I was particularly educated by the way the book encouraged the reader to explore who would be negatively impacted, and were that change to be brought about. 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. Have MIA authors ever actually listened to a political activist, or do all you folks know how to do is promote psychotherapy, recovery, and healing, and to do it by making appeals to pity? establishments I can see now how much of my initial confusion and dislocation to the medical process was simply based on a gut feeling and disconnection that has often been hard to quantify or articulate.

Wasn’t sexuality like being gay, lesbian, or bisexual considered a mental disease to be controlled or cured until recent history too (if it still isn’t)? These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The support and feedback that we've received over the last 8 years is evidence that many people have had enough of the medical model paradigm and that it's time for change. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

However, many, many people never hear or find an alternative to the model that your brain is broken and you need to take drugs indefinitely. event in Birmingham, with psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone, to explore (and explode) the culture of psychiatric diagnosis in mental health. 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. That has been essential to my process of tapering down and getting far away from psychiatric drugs so that I can begin the process of reclaiming the pieces of my life. However I think there are infinitely better ways of responding to distress and suffering than assigning a label that has been created around a table!

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