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Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Emma Bragdon

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power threat meaning framework – can lead the way to a more honest and effective paradigm, writes clinical psychologist Lucy Johnstone.

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Yale U. Research: COPE

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Emma Bragdon 1 Comment

The COPE Project at Yale U. People from all over the world hear, see, and sense things that might not be there (such as hearing voices without someone physically speaking to them.) Not only is this a common experience, but most people who have these experiences don’t need any form of psychiatric care. The psychiatrist

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