Drop the Disorder + Do Something!

A note on language and terminology

Foreword - James Davies
Introduction - Jo Watson

PART ONE - REWRITING THE NARRATIVE
1. Why I wrote Insane Medicine - Sami Timimi
2. 'We need to be honest and open that what we are doing is behaviour change' - Jo Watson interviews Joanna Moncrieff
3. Mad in America: Journalism in the service of activism - Robert Whitaker
4. 'When bad things happen, it fucks you up' - Jo Watson interviews John Read
5. Mad in the UK: A space for silenced and critical voices - Peter Kinderman and Jo Watson
6. If it's in you, get it out there! - Jo Watson interviews Gabor Mate
7. The enemy between us: challenging the inequality that erodes ourmental health - Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
8. 'When we know better, we do better' - Jo Watson interviews Kate Silverton

PART TWO - TRANSFORMING PRACTICE
9. Survival is not a disorder: Resistance, rebellion and revolutionarylove - Bec Bayliss and Akima Thomas
10. Wisdom from the street: what happens when we listen to people'sstories - Pat McArdle
11. 'It's just so important to recognise that people have lives that aremore than just meeting the demands of services' - Jo Watson interviews Hari Sewell
12. Writing a new script for mental health - Sara Boyce and Lisa Morrison
13. Stay curious, keep reading and question the status quo - Sharon McCormick
14. Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework to challengediagnostic practice - Lucy Johnstone, Amanda Griffiths, Ray Middleton, Gareth Morgan,Faye Nikopaschos and Jo Ramsden
15. Community-led approaches to wellbeing - Cormac Russell
16. Disabled people challenging psychiatric diagnosis - Katy Evans and Mel Halacre

PART THREE - ART AS ACTIVISM
17. Poetry in mission: A journey in progress - Jo McFarlane
18. Leading conversations about child sexual abuse: society's shame,not ours - Sophie Olson
19. All I can do is small things. But I care a lot. I'm stubborn. And I'mjust going to keep trying because I have to' - Jo Watson interviews Indigo Daya
20. Dodging diagnosis: CSA survival and creative resistance - Viv Gordon
21. 'When someone owns the truth, becomes accountable for harmsdone, it is pure liberation' - Jo Watson interviews 'V'

PART FOUR - ACTIVIST JOURNEYS
22. 'Psychiatric diagnosis is the first cause of everything bad thathappens in the mental health system' - Jo Watson interviews Paula J. Caplan
23. Story and counterstory: how I took authorship of my life back frompsychiatry - Marnie Wedlake
24. Dialectical behavioral therapy is not my koolade - Rebecca Donaldson
25. 'We have a failed paradigm and that's what needs to change' - Jo Watson interviews Lucy Johnstone
26. Emerging proud to be the change we wish to see in the world - Katie Mottram
27. How I used the law to fight the NHS and won justice for my dad - Nadine Denneth
28. From psychotherapist to activist - Daniel Mackler
29. It started with a book - Anne Guy
30. 'What drives me more than anything is that I know that people canheal' - Jo Watson interviews Jacqui Dillon

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• Psiquiatria
• Diagnóstico médico
• Grupos de pressão e lobbies

psychiatric diagnosis; distress; diagnosis; disorder; service user; campaigner; activist; psychologist; counsellor; psychiatrist; mental health practitioner; mental health; trauma; medicalisation of emotional distress