with overwhelming emotional issues typically does not help them. Instead, a psychiatric diagnosis usually Hearing Voices Network– If you hear voices, HVN can help – we are committed to helping people who hear voices. We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them. Johann Hari, journalist and writer; author of Lost Connections: why you’re depressed and how to find hope

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The Power Threat Meaning Framework– Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis.Anyone who wants to deal with the epidemic of distress and despair in our society should engage deeply with Jo Watson's work and this massively important book. --Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections and Chasing the Scream This book is a revised and retitled second edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User(2010). helpful to anybody who wants to learn more about the many facets of mental health care and treatments.’ We want a better deal for everyone who seeks help for emotional distress – better understanding from practitioners and society, better responses and more choices from services and better outcomes from treatments. Our aim is that our publishing reflects these goals. Thank you for this afternoon and for the passion you brought to it. It’s made me feel more hopeful that change is possible.

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There will be space for questions, discussion and the sharing of ideas making for a uniquely powerful and hopeful learning experience. The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry– CEP exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference. A. New assessment tools: based on the kinds of trauma a person has experienced and its lasting effects. They also need more humane methods of eliciting recovery, e.g. counseling in which there is authentic, person to person, client-centered connection. Thank you, Jacqui, totally mind blowing! Really made me think and lots of practical skills I can use in my work. 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?

So grateful for you giving us this time and opportunity Jacqui…. your passion and knowledge is so inspiring. I have been able to take so much away with me. I’d love the opportunity to hear more of your thinking.