Dr Lucy Johnstone – From Mental Illness to Meaning-Based Distress: A Radical Alternative to the Diagnostic Paradigm
How can we transform the meaning of mental illness with a new story?
Dr Lucy Johnstone is lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, of the “Power Threat Meaning Framework”, which is an ambitious attempt to outline a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. The PTMF was co-produced with service users and published by the British Psychological Society. It has had national and international attention and six translations are under way. Lucy will outline the principles of the Framework and its central messages about the importance of narratives of all kind as an alternative to diagnostic labels, and as a means of restoring the links between personal distress and wider issues of power, social inequalities and social injustice.
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About the speaker:
Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of Users and Abusers of Psychiatry (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and A Straight-Talking Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework, 2020, PCCS Books) along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. She is Visiting Professor at London South Bank University. She lives in Bristol, UK, and currently works as an independent trainer.
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Lucy JohnstoneClinical Psychologist, Author
Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of Users and Abusers of Psychiatry (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and A Straight-Talking Guide to Psychiatric Diagnosis (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework, 2020, PCCS Books) along with a number of other chapters and articles taking a critical perspective on mental health theory and practice. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years, most recently in a service in South Wales. She is Visiting Professor at London South Bank University. She lives in Bristol, UK, and currently works as an independent trainer.
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