Steven Hayes has been working for years on how to move psychotherapy & psychology past the DSM medical model of diagnosis of conditions that are inherently unexplainable from a medical model. He has recently published a book called Moving beyond the DSM. He is promoting a process-based model of change to replace the DSM & ICD11. Worth a look and a chat maybe? As a family therapist & counsellor I am moving along with Hayes and others on the journey away from the disorder paradigm.
Your work on connection makes perfect sense in this new paradigm. Perhaps a publisher like New Harbinger might be a better host. Still, I like the way that you are making this project work from a challenge to accepted capitalist tradition point of view.
Steven Hayes has been working for years on how to move psychotherapy & psychology past the DSM medical model of diagnosis of conditions that are inherently unexplainable from a medical model. He has recently published a book called Moving beyond the DSM. He is promoting a process-based model of change to replace the DSM & ICD11. Worth a look and a chat maybe? As a family therapist & counsellor I am moving along with Hayes and others on the journey away from the disorder paradigm.
I also note the work of Lucy Johnston on the Power Threat Meaning Framework which is also an alternative to using the DSM/ICD medical model in addressing mental health problems. https://www.bps.org.uk/member-networks/division-clinical-psychology/power-threat-meaning-framework
Your work on connection makes perfect sense in this new paradigm. Perhaps a publisher like New Harbinger might be a better host. Still, I like the way that you are making this project work from a challenge to accepted capitalist tradition point of view.