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This event will explore the role and nature of diagnosis in mental health and critically consider an alternative model to conventional diagnosis: The Power Threat Meaning Framework.

The Framework looks at how we make sense of life’s difficult experiences and how messages from wider society can increase our feelings of shame, self-blame, isolation, fear and guilt. The framework aims to offer constructive alternatives in the areas of service design and commissioning, professional training, research, service user involvement, peer support and public information.

The aim of the evening is to generate conversation and debate, so the format will be highly interactive, based on provocations and discussions with people with different experiences and questions about mental health, including clinicians, people with lived experience and researchers.

Programme
6:30pm Digital Humanities Seminar Room
Three short provocations:

• Richard Byng – why do we need an alternative to diagnosis?
• Louise Holman – diagnosis and mental health services; my story
• Lucy Johnstone – what is the Power Threat Meaning Framework?

7pm Wellcome Centre for Cultures & Environments of Health
Short break – light refreshments will be provided
Small group discussions:

• What would PTM do better?
• What would we need to change to make PTM happen?
• Who is affected by PTM?
• What about people who want a diagnosis?

7:45pm Digital Humanities Seminar Room
Feedback and general discussion