Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

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It examines the question of who decides what is normal and why do we perhaps judge and reduce people who are so often going through an authentic, understandable, emotional struggle with trauma? And the more I read the more curious I became about the resistance to change and the difficulties that are faced when trying to bring about change. This book is packed with rich narratives, incisive analysis and powerful critiques of a world where everyday emotions are increasingly seen as disease. These too are ways that the survivors of abuse decide not to face their own feelings, and instead to abuse other survivors.

Others come with crippling anxiety and a parallel belief that it is something that is part of them, that their brain is dysfunctional and they have no control over it. This moment has stayed with me for all of my working life because it provoked personal feelings of incompetence, inadequacy, and rejection. 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.

It’s the psychological equal of Identity Politics, which is terrible because it’s the death of critical thinking.

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e. primarily failures of ongoing emotional support, love, and security – I can present a more hopeful open-ended model of suffering to them. It gathers the perspectives of a diverse range of contributors with many different stakes in the debate – but all with one intention: to rid the lexicon of toxic unsubstantiated labels which pathologise our pain and justify suppressing our dissent (conscious or otherwise) to poverty, discrimination and abuse. The first stanza of Thomas’ poem is anything but on topic with psychiatric drugs, but it’s how I can relate my mind to feeling on many crazy doctor drugs in that there’s a fight for consciousness, a weary battle like Thomas captures at the end of his father’s life to keep the spark of life alive (it’s a battle for one’s soul after all! Also there are many people who are critical of diagnosis are very open about their own lived experience. 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.

should be essential reading for anyone working within mental health and that of course includes student counsellors. 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.