The PATTERNS part of The Power Threat Meaning Framework explained - my interview with Lucy Johnstone

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PTMF links:
The General Patterns and their principles are described in the Power Threat Meaning Framework Overview, pp 42-73, available on the main PTMF website. On the same website page, you can also find a shorter explanation about the Patterns, and some more recently-developed examples of Patterns:
www.bps.org.uk/member-network...
The Patterns are explained and illustrated in an accessible format in 'A straight-talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework' (2020), by Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone, PCCS Books, chapter 8.
www.pccs-books.co.uk/products...

[@drraymiddleton1215]

For info on my 5 day Workforce Development Programme email me at: [e-mail]
PTMF links:
The General Patterns and their principles are described in the Power Threat Meaning Framework Overview, pp 42-73, available on the main PTMF website. On the same website page, you can also find a shorter explanation about the Patterns, and some more recently-developed examples of Patterns:
www.bps.org.uk/member-networks/division-clinical-psychology/power-threat-meaning-framework
The Patterns are explained and illustrated in an accessible format in 'A straight-talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework' (2020), by Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone, PCCS Books, chapter 8.
www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-the-power-threat-meaning-framework-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis

[@simonandrews4355]

As a retired NHS GP and as an Adlerian Counsellor nearing the end of training - and indeed as a person who has journeyed through UK NHS Mental Health outpatient and inpatient services myself, I very much appreciate this thinking and this thoughtful approach to meaning in illness. It is quite astonishingly rich and helpful and full of potential and holism. It feels viscerally appealing and relevant. It has a feeling of 'right' and 'real' too and it is addressing concrete issues which are current and active. Thank you very much and may I encourage you to keep being bold and brave and challenging.

[@simonandrews4355]

As a retired medic (UK GP) I see your ideas around people who are patients becoming able to access services and support and benefits independent of whether or not they have a diagnosis as being something of enormous value and potential. Somatisation of distress, in particular, I see as a deeply enculturated method of obtaining relief and support in an NHS where the paradigm is one of entry via diagnosis - whether physical or mental and much more often physical. This paradigm described in PTMF may be an opportunity to make inroads into that label as ticket-in culture and to make entry to services instead about recognising people's discouragement and lack of meaning in a challenging situation - incidentally both very Adlerian ideas which I am training in.