The PTMF helps settings move from "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"

💪Explores power, threat & meaning behind behaviour
👌Shifts focus from labels to systemic/relational factors
😃 Empowers students by validating their experiences

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#PTMFramework webinar 21st October 2025

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If I’m sitting next to someone at a event whose politics I disagree with, rather than enter a debate with them, I've learnt to explore why they hold their views. That way I usually learn something intriging, while they feel heard. And overall its a far more pleasant & instructive evening.

The word 'depression' is a catch-all phrase which, once you get to know a person deeply, tells us very little about the nuances, origins & substance of their experience. I find the phrase clinically unhelpful & the medicalised meanings with which it is laden regularly misleading.

3 fantastic full day online sessions. Just. For. You.

1. Trauma Informed Record Keeping
2. Cultivating Belonging: A toolkit for practice
3. Train the Trainer Youth Coaching programme

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This is an excellent and thought-provoking article in @nytimes.com about our evolving clinical and scientific understanding of ADHD

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

I am very excited to be talking to Dr Rangan Chatterjee next week about my new book and how we have been misled about the nature of depression and antidepressants. Honoured to be invited to be among so many fascinating guests on the Feel Better, Live More podcast

Yesterday, the UK government confirmed that mental health spending as a share of the NHS budget fell last year in England - and is set to fall again next year. 1/3

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mental-health-nhs-funding-wes-streeting-b2723146.html

'Overdiagnosis leads to overtreatment. Because diagnoses are not inert labels, it can actively create illness and distress.' Diagnostic 'identities' can be 'self-limiting' theconversation.com/are-labels-l...

The Power Threat Meaning Framework has now moved to Bluesky. Please do follow us! Contact and website details on LinkTree. #PTMFramework #PTMF

Oh my. It's here. The book cover! How beautiful is this? It took some time to develop but we got there and I think you'll agree, it's stunning!

Out in May!

Pre-order your copy here:

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The real obstacle to reform of our mental health system is the power of established interests to limit our vision of what is possible & to frighten us into believing that our only hope for better care is to fund & upscale more of the failing same.....

Please read this and support Jess.
Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. open.substack.com/pub/whatwoul...

After adapting last minute to online training, Emma and I enjoyed co-facilitating a shared learning session for CMHT and SCPTS colleagues on Recognising and Responding to Trauma on Wednesday. First time facilitating break out rooms on MS teams too! 🙌🏻
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The mental health sector has an elite, & like any elite it tries to stay in power. And the way it does this is by not merely controlling the resources & decision making, but by controlling the cognitive map: what we think, what language we think with & what new ideas are allowed.

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions in this #podcast.

“The World Health Organization has twice issued documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model that recognizes social determinants of health."

www.madinamerica.com/2023/12/robe...

The dominance of the medical model in mental health provision has driven & exacerbated mental health disability, which is why I'm bemused by disability activists who ardently support it....

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.