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A psychiatric diagnosis can be more than an unkind ‘label’

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    DanBC
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    The documents talked about, published by BPS, are here. Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia: https://www.bps.org.uk/what-psychology/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia Power Threat...

    The documents talked about, published by BPS, are here.

    Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia: https://www.bps.org.uk/what-psychology/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia

    Power Threat Meaning Framework: https://www.bps.org.uk/power-threat-meaning-framework

    The PTMFramewark is incomprehensible bollocks. It has the full framework, a shortened introduction, an even shorter overview, and some more supporting documents.

    There's considerable discussion about how hopelessly poor these are.

    https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/psychosis/understandingpsychosis/

    https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/schizophrenia/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia-a-critique-by-laws-langford-and-huda/

    https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/power-threat-meaning-framework-innovative-and-important-ptmframework/

    If you're seeing this from outside it looks a bit like a turf-war between psychology and psychiatry. But really most people doing the job recognise the importance of multi-disciplinary teams,. Doctors welcome their psychology colleagues, and vice-versa. This argument is mostly between academic psychologists (who thankfully don't have much contact with patients) and doctors (who do).

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      cos
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      Thanks for all the resources! These definitely provide a lot of useful context for considering the arguments in the article. If you don't mind me asking, what's your relationship to the topic?

      Thanks for all the resources! These definitely provide a lot of useful context for considering the arguments in the article. If you don't mind me asking, what's your relationship to the topic?

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      1. DanBC
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        It's a bit of a mouthful, but I work in suicide prevention and patient safety, on the bureaucratic (not patient facing) side, using quality improvement methodology, in English NHS settings.
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        It's a bit of a mouthful, but I work in suicide prevention and patient safety, on the bureaucratic (not patient facing) side, using quality improvement methodology, in English NHS settings.

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