A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis
By: Johnstone, Lucy
Language: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- PCCS Books -- 2022Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 185pISBN: 9781915220066Subject(s): Medicine and health | Mental disorders | Mental illness Diagnosis | Psychiatry | PsychotherapyDDC classification: 616.89 JOH/S Summary:
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?'.
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Series introduction - Richard Bentall and Pete Sanders,
1. What this book aims to do,
2. Psychiatric diagnosis: The current context,
3. What are the problems with psychiatric diagnosis?,
4. For and against psychiatric diagnosis in more detail,
5. The wider impact of psychiatric diagnosis,
6. The personal impact of psychiatric diagnosis,
7. Alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis - finding your own story,
8. Personal stories,
9. The wider context of psychiatric diagnosis,
10. Where do we go next?,
Further reading and resources
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?'.