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What are your thoughts on how psychiatric drugs and limited formulaic psychotherapy have become the default modes of care?

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Born out of the rejection of psychoanalysis and social psychiatric models in the 1980s, the shift was explicitly intended as a biomedical ‘revolution’. With the “decade of the brain,” a new era of enlightened mental health medicine was supposed to ensue. Yet, after decades of research and countless billions of dollars spent, not only has very little of scientific value resulted in terms of treatments, we are increasingly hearing about mental health “crises” and even “pandemics.” At the same time, more and more research has been supporting the centrality of the social and interpersonal factors that have traditionally been neglected by the medical model and medicalised therapies. Could the medical framing have been contributing to the problem? Has the power behind the medical model occluded the issues at hand and contributed to ongoing social injustice? Our presenters will try to address these and other questions in the hopes of starting this important conversation afresh.

The Medicalisation of Distress Includes a subtitled recording of the event and a transcript, with access for a year (14 days post the event) Bookings close at 4:00am EST Wednesday 1 March In the US and UK — and increasingly the rest of the world — our language, thinking, and responses to emotional and psychological distress h...

Bookings for our seminar on working with kink-affirmative therapy close next week!

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Working with Fe**sh, B**M, and Kink Practices Includes a subtitled recording of the event and a transcript, with access for a year (14 days post the event) Bookings close at 4:00am EST Wednesday 22 February Many therapists struggle with their responses when working with clients who engage in kink, fe**sh, and/or B**M. However, research suggests...