Drop the Disorder!: Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis

How and why does psychiatric diagnosis hold such power? What harms does it do? What are the alternatives to diagnosis, and how can it be challenged? This book brings together psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and users and survivors of services to propose answers to these questions. The contributors represent a wide range of expertise built through experience, research, campaigning and activism. All seek to offer an alternative vision for how we respond to those in extreme emotional distress. It is an essential book for every one of us who looks beyond the labels. Read more