1000 People Speak Out And Have To Wait A Year To Be Heard
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1000 People Speak Out And Have To Wait A Year To Be Heard

27 Oct 1000 People Speak Out And Have To Wait A Year To Be Heard

Posted at 02:36h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy by

This summer I drafted an article for a special issue on diagnostic alternatives of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Having learned that it will be at least a year before publication (which is ridiculous), I am making it available here.

Feedback welcome!

Diagnosis: A Thousand Ordinary People Speak Out

Lois Holzman and Elisabeth Genn

East Side Institute, NY NY

Abstract

The public is rarely asked its opinions concerning mental health issues and, as revealed by a literature search, has never been surveyed without the use of medicalized, diagnostic forced choice illness language. This article reports on an ongoing community outreach project that gave people the opportunity to reflect on and share their thoughts about the medical-mental illness-diagnostic model and its impact on their lives. Two organizations with a long-standing opposition to the individualized model of human development and the medicalized understanding of emotionality designed and conducted open-ended surveys on emotional distress and diagnosis at two NYC street fairs and online. Results from over 1000 surveys are discussed and indicate that mental illness diagnosis is viewed as a necessary evil at best, and an isolating and destructive practice at worst. The results strongly suggest that ordinary people are important allies in the fight for alternatives to diagnosis. Proceed to full article Diagnosis

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  • loisholzman
    Posted at 15:14h, 27 October

    The whole system is becoming obsolete.

  • Stanley Krippner
    Posted at 04:10h, 27 October

    Join the club Lois. I wrote an article for the journal a year ago and it was just published last week. Some journals put the articles on-line as soon as they are accepted.

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