num_pages: 293
description: The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises a powerful alternative to psychiatric diagnosis that asks not Whats wrong with you? but Whats happened to you?The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) was co-produced by a core group of psychologists and service users and launched in 2018 prompting considerable interest in the UK and worldwide. It argues that emotional distress unusual experiences and many forms of troubled or troubling behaviour are understandable when viewed in the context of a persons life and circumstances the cultural and social norms we are expected to live up to and the degree to which we are exposed to trauma abuse injustice and inequality.The PTMF offers all of us the tools to create new hopeful narratives about the reasons for our distress that are not based on psychiatric diagnosis and find ways forward as individuals families social groups and whole societies.
language: English
title: A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
publisher: PCCS Books