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How and why does psychiatric diagnosis hold such power? What harms does it do? What are the alternatives to diagnosis, and how can it be challenged? This book brings together psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and users and survivors of services to propose answers to these questions. It is an essential book for every one of us who looks beyond the labels.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements and thanks
- A note on terminology
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis? Critiques and alternatives
- 2 Counselling, psychotherapy, diagnosis and the medicalisation of distress
- 3 Psychiatry: a dangerous raft in a sea of despair
- 4 The revolution will not be pathologised
- 5 Problems in living: an existential perspective
- 6 Deceived: how Big Pharma persuades us to keep taking its medicines
- 7 The language of values; the value of language
- 8 ‘Schizophrenia’ – the least scientific and most damaging of psychiatric
- 9 Resistance, rebellion, resilience and recovery
- 10 Why words can harm your mental health
- 11 Offensive pathways: the ‘personality disorder’ construct and the over-responsibilisation of incarcerated women
- 12 Working therapeutically with clients with a psychiatric diagnosis
- 13 Towards a trauma-informed approach with people who have experienced sexual violence
- 14 Disability, depression and the language of disorder
- 15 Finding my tribe: a survivor’s story
- 16 From chemical imbalance to power imbalance: a manifesto for mental health
- 17 A tale of two tutors: challenging the narrative of diagnosis and disorder in counselling training
- 18 Violence under the guise of care: whiteness, colonialism and psychiatric diagnoses
- 19 Names matter, language matters, truth matters
- 20 There’s an intruder in our house! Counselling, psychotherapy and the biomedical model of emotional distress
- Reading and resources
- Contributors
- Name index
- Subject index
- Back Cover