Drop the Disorder + Do Something!: Activism to change the culture of mental health

The culture of psychiatric diagnosis causes harm.
It labels people in distress. It silences them. It takes away their
individuality and agency. At its worst, it removes their human rights. It only
asks, 'What's wrong with you?' and doesn't ask, 'What happened to you?'
It fails to acknowledge the complexity of an individual's story and their
social context.

This powerful follow-up to the first Drop the Disorder!
book (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles 40 contributors who are challenging the
culture of psychiatric diagnosis and disorder. They include high-profile
names such as 'V' (formerly known as Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina
Monologues), child therapist Kate Silverton and Canadian physician Gabor
Mate (The
Myth of Normal), leading researchers and writers, including
professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (The Spirit Level) and
Joanna Moncrieff; Robert Whitaker of madinamerica.com, and frontline
campaigner Jacqui Dillon, alongside a host of other activists, service users
and refusers, poets, artists, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and other
practitioners and leaders in the mental health and homeless sectors who are
trying to do things differently in their own spheres.

This book's message is 'do
something', and its hard-hitting and inspiring chapters tell us why
and how.