Drop the disorder! : challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis / edited by Jo Watson.

Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK : PCCS Books Ltd., 2019.

xiii, 256 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis? Critiques and alternatives -- Counselling, psychotherapy, diagnosis and the medicalisation of distress -- Psychiatry: a dangerous raft in a sea of despair -- The revolution will not be pathologized -- Problems in living: an existential perspective -- Deceived: how Big Pharma persuades us to keep taking its medicines -- The language of values; the value of language -- ‘Schizophrenia’ - the least scientific and most damaging of psychiatric labels -- Resistance, rebellion, resilience and recovery -- Why words can harm your mental health -- Offensive pathways: the ‘personality disorder’ construct and the over-responsabilisation of incarcerated women -- Working therapeutically with clients with psychiatric diagnosis -- Towards a trauma-informed approach with people who have experienced sexual violence -- Disability, depression and the language of disorder -- Finding my tribe: a survivor’s story -- From chemical imbalance to power imbalance: a manifesto for mental health -- A tale of two tutors: challenging the narrative of diagnosis and disorder in counselling training -- Violence under the guise of care: whiteness, colonialism, and psychiatric diagnoses -- Names matter, language matters, truth matters -- There’s an intruder in our house! Counselling, psychotherapy and the biomedical model of emotional distress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.