{"id":2822,"date":"2018-02-08T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:22:35","slug":"shit-happens-and-it-drives-us-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/shit-happens-and-it-drives-us-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Shit happens and it drives us crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/tag\/anne-cooke-author\/\"><em>Anne Cooke<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/tag\/rachel-terry-author\/\"><em>Rachel Terry<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/tag\/john-mcgowan-author\/\"><em>John McGowan<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0discuss whether there is a viable alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The beginning of February saw the launch of an ambitious document \u00a0aiming to offer a new way of thinking about human distress. The <em>Power Threat Meaning Framework <\/em>(published by the British Psychological Society) emphasises the role of adverse experiences in emotional suffering. The PTMF also offers an alternative to more traditional psychiatric diagnostic categories. The panel discuss the how useful the document may be, and some of the criticisms which have been made of it.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Shit happens and it drives us crazy by Discussions in Tunbridge Wells\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F396607113&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best way follow the podcast is to subscribe to our feed. You can do this by looking up <em>Discussions in Tunbridge Wells<\/em>\u00a0in iTunes, SoundCloud or wherever else you get your podcasts from. Or you can paste the following link into your podcatcher of choice <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:56544633\/sounds.rss%20\">http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:56544633\/sounds.rss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As well as that you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook by searching for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCCUAppPsy\">@CCCUApppsy<\/a>. You can follow the contributors on Twitter: Anne <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annecooke14\">@AnneCooke14<\/a>,\u00a0 Rachel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rterrypsy\">@rterrypsy<\/a>,\u00a0and John\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drjohnmcgowan\">@drjohnmcgowan<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links to things we talked about on this show:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The main <em>Power Threat Meaning Framework<\/em> is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.org.uk\/news-and-policy\/introducing-power-threat-meaning-framework\">here<\/a>, along with shorter summaries, slides from the launch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A short piece by Richard Bentall and Mary Boyle covering some of their main criticisms of the use of diagnostic categories in mental health is available <a href=\"https:\/\/thepsychologist.bps.org.uk\/volume-20\/edition-5\/diagnosis-special-issue-part-1-2\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A recent talk by John on suicide prevention is available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/zero-suicide-an-idea-whose-time-has-not-and-should-not-come\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any of the contributors employing organisations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer: John McGowan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Producer: Saul McGowan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensound.com\/\">http:\/\/www.bensound.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Cooke,\u00a0Rachel Terry\u00a0and John McGowan\u00a0discuss whether there is a viable alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. \u00a0 The beginning of February saw the launch of an ambitious document \u00a0aiming to offer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":2829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[657,717],"tags":[26,10,78,745,6,30,725,850],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comment","category-podcast","tag-anne-cooke-author","tag-john-mcgowan-author","tag-medicalisation-of-everyday-life","tag-mental-distress","tag-mental-health","tag-psychiatric-diagnosis","tag-rachel-terry-author","tag-the-power-threat-meaning-framework"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"John McGowan","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/442\/2018\/02\/homelessness.jpg","postExcerpt":"Anne Cooke,\u00a0Rachel Terry\u00a0and John McGowan\u00a0discuss whether there is a viable alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. \u00a0 The beginning of February saw the launch of an ambitious document \u00a0aiming to offer a [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/discursive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}