Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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Despite all our knowledge about attachment, trauma and relationships, many of my colleagues have ended up colluding with the message that people are “ill.

hang on Paisley- your happy- im not- doesn’t your being happy- hinge on my- being not happy- in the same way you speak of that effect in your example– – im happy with happy- im not with unhappy- do they or you feel the same way- conversely- does my not liking beer- make all the beer drinkers feel crap – and so i should shut up about my dislike for it. The appetite for challenging the mainstream narrative was huge and by March 2020 we had taken our AD4E day event to 21 cities around the UK and involved many contributors in the process. However, I hope the people involved are arriving from all political worldviews, otherwise it will devolve into just another groupthink, echo-chamber community. I highly recommend it to anyone questioning their psychiatric diagnosis or the psychiatric medications they've been prescribed.And psychotherapy is always based on that, the victim is to change, and no one else is to be held accountable. This collection combines insights from people I could relate to and ideas I hadn't considered before.

This includes people with experiences of mental distress, professionals, academics, journalists, artists, politicians, authors, and many others. Despite all our knowledge about attachment, trauma and relationships, many of my colleagues have ended up colluding with the message that people are ‘ill. 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!It’s the psychological equal of Identity Politics, which is terrible because it’s the death of critical thinking.

They said the symptoms of my “illness” were a belief in moral absolutes, an over-active conscience, and a decision to be celibate.

There is definitely a sense of energy and excitement as connections are being made, views are being endorsed rather than silenced, and emotions are being expressed and heard. it also helps me understand where some of my frustrations in the more recent awareness of mental health manifest.

has enabled me to understand and communicate the reasons for the incongruence I once felt in being part of the system. Challenges your view of the medical model and shows the links with our current and past experiences, the traumas we’ve faced and the adversity we live with. As a counsellor with 18 years under my belt, I've listened to many life-stories, read many books, attended many sceminas and training courses. As a survivor of a narcissistic family, I know that the system gains power through the “divide and conquer”-method. My core team of 30 counsellors and college students will all be reading this book because quite frankly it would be an outrage not to.We have been delighted to welcome some well-known figures in the movement, including Rufus May, Rai Waddingham, Michael Cornwall, David Oaks, Bob Nikkel, Jim Gottstein, Kermit Cole, Malcolm Stern, Mary Maddock, Ted Chabasinski, Terry Lynch, Bonnie Burstow, Peter Kinderman, Lucy Johnstone, John Read and Katinka Blackman Newman and Paula Joan Caplan who I had the pleasure of meeting in New York in November.