The Power Threat Meaning Framework is an ambitious attempt to develop a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis, developed by a group of senior psychologists (Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle, John Cromby, David Harper, Peter Kinderman, David Pilgrim, and John Read) and high profile service user campaigners (Jacqui Dillon and Eleanor Longden) over a period of five years. It was launched on January 12th, 2018 in London and is already attracting a great deal of interest from professionals, service users, trainers, voluntary organisations, researchers, and others. Since it presents a strong challenge to traditional ways of thinking and practising, it is also proving controversial in some quarters. Lucy Johnstone, the project lead, described the core principles of the Framework and its relevance to understanding, and worked with emotional distress and unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour.
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Dr Lucy Johnstone is a consultant clinical psychologist, author of ‘Users and abusers of psychiatry’ (3rd edition Routledge 2021) and ‘A straight-talking guide to psychiatric diagnosis’ (PCCS Books, 2nd edition 2022); co-editor of ‘Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy: making sense of people’s problems’ (Routledge, 2nd edition 2013); and co-author of ‘A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework’, 2020, PCCS Books). She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the UK and has worked in Adult Mental Health settings for many years. She is Visiting Professor at London South Bank University, and Honorary Fellow of the BPS, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Lucy was lead author, along with Professor Mary Boyle, for the ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’ (2018), a British Psychological Society publication co-produced with service users, which outlines a conceptual alternative to psychiatric diagnosis and has attracted national and international attention. Lucy is an experienced conference speaker and lecturer, and currently works as an independent trainer. She lives in Bristol, UK. (feel free to edit)
