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Drop the Disorder! Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis

by Jo Watson - £21.99  PCCS Books (2019)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781910919460 | ISBN 10: 1910919462

In October 2016 Jo Watson hosted the very first ‘A Disorder for Everyone!’ event in Birmingham, with psychologist Dr Lucy Johnstone, to explore (and explode) the culture of psychiatric diagnosis in mental health. To provide a space to continue the debate after the event, Jo also set up the now hugely popular and active Facebook group ‘Drop the Disorder!’.
 
Since then, they have delivered events in towns and cities across the UK, bringing together activists, survivors and professionals to debate psychiatric diagnosis. How and why does psychiatric diagnosis hold such power? What harm it can do? What are the alternatives to diagnosis, and how it can be positively challenged?
 
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 is an essential book for everyone of us who looks beyond the labels.

(Price & availability last checked: October 2019)

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