Drop the Disorder! Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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And for every new personal story, there becomes a greater strength in number, and that increased collective weight encourages a belief that the ideology can start to penetrate. This includes people with experiences of mental distress, professionals, academics, journalists, artists, politicians, authors, and many others.

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Jacqui is part of a collective voice demanding a radical shift in the way we understand and respond to experiences currently defined as psychiatric illnesses.

Because when a counsellor is attempting to understand a client and empathise with their personal story they are trained to be aware of difference and diversity and resist categorisation and the generalisation that is found within a diagnosis or label. 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. I was a 26-year-old support worker sat face to face with a recently sectioned, police-escorted patient on a mental health ICU ward. 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. Of course, some people do find their diagnosis helpful, feeling that without it their distress would not be perceived as validated or real.

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Each goes into the damaging effects of psychiatric labels as well as the manipulations of Big Pharma and poses viable alternatives.

but also understand, with great clarity, why it is imperative that psychiatry s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) be dumped, as quickly as possible, into the waste bin. And I again find myself worrying that the nuance of this book’s message is consequentially being lost even within an admirable effort to create positive action. 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.

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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.This unique contribution to the psychology literature remains accessible through compelling narratives, poetry and artwork. And of course, these structures inevitably start to become dogmatic and therefore leave very little room for nuance. 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. assembles a group of cutting-edge contributors to shine a light on some of the most contested issues of modern psychiatric practice.