This important report raises fundamental questions about how we can understand and respond to mental distress differently and provide support and care without medicalisation

Our APPG report, released today, proposes a radical rebalancing away from the biomedical model towards a more holistic, person-centred approach that more fully recognises & addresses the social, economic and psychological determinants of mental health. 👇
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Prior to the DSM 3, family therapy was the standard for troubled kids, which worked/works on the assumption that the child's 'symptoms' are conduits of the pathology of the family system.

The demise of this approach coincided with the exponential rise of autism/ADHD diagnoses.

The 5th #adisorder4everyone online festival will be the best yet!

Reserve your place now.

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11 hours of contributions from allies old and new, all challenging the culture of diagnosis & disorder!

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Dr John Read Mad In The UK Mad In America Dr Joanna Moncrieff The drugs, labels & repeated #ECT left me separated from my family, out of jobs I loved, deemed needing supported living & many times nearly dead. The hopelessness & despair from untreated traumas & labels that reinforced my worthlessness & shame #RevolvingDoor #RepeatOffender

What a sad response. Of course supporting people experiencing the emotional pain and confusion you stigmatise as ‘severe mental illness’ is difficult. I have done it for years, and rarely found your labels and drugs helpful. Mad In The UK Mad In America Dr Joanna Moncrieff Lisa Morrison

Once your distress has been medicalised, medicated & depoliticised, the government will now prescribe its final remedy: cutting your financial support so that you're now forced to return to the precarious, low paid & demoralising work that made you miserable in the first place.

This forensic review of R. Chapman's new book, exposes Chapman's multiple hostile misrepresentations of critical psychiatry, and how Chapman's obsession with mis-labelling all critics as 'Szaszians' has blinded them to the reality of the modern movement. madintheuk.com/2024/04/empire…

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Meeting Dr. Robert Spitzer, the creator of DSM, left me with an unshakable and almost uncanny gut feeling that here was a man who had no real understanding of human suffering.

This week’s news has focused on a new amendment to existing law, meaning paedophiles convicted of serious sexual offences could lose parental rights over their children.
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Emily wishes this had been in place earlier, so the children of today don't

Generation Z is being taught: Boredom and forgetfulness is 'ADHD', Feeling lonely and sad is 'Depression' and any form of anxiety is some symptom of an underlying disorder. The psychiatric industrial complex & their alignment with the pharmaceutical industry is creating mass

Medically assisted dying for autism and ADHD. Is this what you want to see happening? This is part of the danger of talking about neurological differences or mental health struggles as mental illness.

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Couldn’t recommend James enough. He’s been such a constant source of support and empowerment with the #adisorder4everyone editing etc over years. Thank you James and all the best with this ❤️

We are delighted that the Mad in America #podcast has been shortlisted by The Publisher Podcast Awards & Summit under ‘Best science and medical podcast’. Please keep your fingers crossed for us and good luck to all the nominees🤞😊

I feel like it’s time for a bit of a change in direction, so if you know of anyone in need of podcast audio editing, please do share my details. Thank you so much 😊🎧
#podcast #audio #freelance #editing
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Exploring our responses to suicidal feelings - a ad4e workshop with Will Hall. Will's workshop explores the taboo and fear around suicidal feelings towards respectful suicide prevention that also embraces human rights.

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Therapeutic interventions for healing from trauma, a ad4e workshop with Dr Margot Sunderland

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Really proud to announce this book event. ad4e are staunch supporters of the book, myself and Pat - and the therapeutic journey we took together.

Over the past few weeks I have stood in front of a few hundred professionals and told my story of childhood trauma, and

Excellent podcast about raising our kids by @KateSilverton talking to fearne cotton - including a mention of #AD4E and the #PTMFramework podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/kat…