{"product_id":"9781915220523-drop-the-disorder-do-something","title":"Drop the Disorder + Do Something!","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eActivism to change the culture of mental health\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful follow-up to the first \u003ci\u003eDrop the Disorder!\u003c\/i\u003e book (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles a huge array of contributors who write about what they have done and are doing to actively challenge and change the mainstream narrative around mental health and 'disorders'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe culture of psychiatric diagnosis causes harm.It labels people in distress. It silences them. It takes away theirindividuality and agency. At its worst, it removes their human rights. It onlyasks, '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 theirsocial context. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis powerful follow-up to the first \u003ci\u003eDrop the Disorder!\u003c\/i\u003ebook (PCCS Books, 2019) assembles 40 contributors who are challenging theculture of psychiatric diagnosis and disorder. They include high-profilenames such as 'V' (formerly known as Eve Ensler, author of \u003ci\u003eThe VaginaMonologues\u003c\/i\u003e), child therapist Kate Silverton and Canadian physician GaborMate (\u003ci\u003eTheMyth of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e), leading researchers and writers, includingprofessors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e) andJoanna Moncrieff; Robert Whitaker of \u003ci\u003emadinamerica.com\u003c\/i\u003e, and frontlinecampaigner Jacqui Dillon, alongside a host of other activists, service usersand refusers, poets, artists, counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists and otherpractitioners and leaders in the mental health and homeless sectors who aretrying to do things differently in their own spheres.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book's message is 'dosomething', and its hard-hitting and inspiring chapters tell us whyand how.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54764173295990,"sku":"9781915220523","price":28.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31361870.jpg?v=1732106201","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781915220523-drop-the-disorder-do-something","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}