The Medicalisation of Distress
Diagnosis, Formulation, and Relational Psychotherapy
NOW CLOSED
Saturday 4 March 2023
A live webinar with keynote speaker Dr Nancy McWilliams, with James Barnes, James Davies, and Lucy Johnstone
CE Credits: 4 hours
- Includes a subtitled recording of the event and a transcript, with access for a year (14 days post the event)
- Bookings close at 4:00am EST Wednesday 1 March
In the US and UK — and increasingly the rest of the world — our language, thinking, and responses to emotional and psychological distress have become almost completely framed in medical terms in the last few decades. Along with this shift, psychiatric drugs and limited formulaic psychotherapy have become the default modes of care.
READ MORE...Born out of the rejection of psychoanalysis and social psychiatric models in the 1980s, the shift was explicitly intended as a biomedical ‘revolution’. With the “decade of the brain,” a new era of enlightened mental health medicine was supposed to ensue. Yet, after decades of research and countless billions of dollars spent, not only has very little of scientific value resulted in terms of treatments, we are increasingly hearing about mental health “crises” and even “pandemics.” At the same time, more and more research has been supporting the centrality of the social and interpersonal factors that have traditionally been neglected by the medical model and medicalised therapies. Could the medical framing have been contributing to the problem? Has the power behind the medical model occluded the issues at hand and contributed to ongoing social injustice? Our presenters will try to address these and other questions in the hopes of starting this important conversation afresh.
ONLINE BOOKING
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FEES (USD)
Bookings close at 4:00am EST Wednesday 1 March
Live Webinar:
$110 (Member $55)
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Includes a recording of the event.
CE
This event is accredited by:
- NBCC
- NYSED (Psychology)
- NYSED (Psychoanalysis)
- NYSED (Social Workers)
Certificates of attendance for 4 hours will be provided.
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This event is NOT accredited by the following organisations:
- ASWB
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VENUE
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SCHEDULE
Saturday
08.30 EST Introductions
08.40 Dr Nancy McWilliams
09.30 Q&A
09.45 Break
10.00 Dr James Davies
10.45 Q&A
11.00 Lucy Johnstone
11.45 Q&A
12.00 Break
12.15 James Barnes
12.45 Q&A
12.55 Break
13.00 Panel Session and Q&A
13.30 End