Do you need your psychiatric diagnosis? This book will help you decide. In this second, updated edition of her best-selling title, Lucy Johnstone revisits the revolution that is underway in mental health. Challenging the evidence for the diagnostic model, we need to change the question from 'What's wrong with you?' to 'What's happened to you?'.
The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises the Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative to psychiatric diagnosis - an alternative that asks not 'What's wrong with you?' but 'What's happened to you?'
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