Jo Watson interviews Kate Silverton + Live Q&A With Lucy Johnstone at the AD4E Festival 2023

Journalist and child therapist Kate Silverton talks to Jo Watson at the AD4E festival about her work with children and her book There's No Such Thing as Naughty' and then joins Dr Lucy Johnstone for a live Q&A
AD4E hosts events that challenge the culture of diagnosis and disorder
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Because labels don't tell truthful stories

[@futures2247]

Always good to see alternatives to the reductionist, medicalisation that we see everywhere. However this making space to understand, hear and be heard, requires a level of resources that most are just not furnished with. ‘Soothing’ is missing from life for millions and self soothing, via drugs (prescribed and illegal), alcohol, garbage food, gambling is common place.
The average family are bathed in stress from waking to bedtime, surrounded by a poisoned food system, debt and poor neighbourhoods acutely aware of ones position in the class system.
I wonder how following the advice here would look, if you were still living in a cramped shit hole in Hartlepool, if this really ever was your experience, personally, I’m doubtful.
The common factors approach in the therapy literature seem clear that the main helpful factor in any successful therapy is nothing to do with therapy but all about resources, in the broadest sense.
What is disordered are many elements of the culture, the constant competition, comparing and self interest. Most jobs, school system and class etc. The science here seems pretty clear. Talking about the brain as if we understand it seems just another form of false advertising.
Wise compassionate words are all very well - seems a bit like like pouring artificial fertiliser on to a beautiful plant that is struggling to survive because its planted in dog turds, with limited sunlight and water from a urinal. RESOURCES are what the plant and us are needed.
Anyone writing such books ought to be living in poverty conditions, perhaps then we might get to a realistic view of what is possible and what is not.

[@janlaag]

Finally someone who's saying it. Thank you very much.
Enough with the same bs going round and round in all sorts of unawarely self-referential and overpraised expertise as if the medical industry wasn't all based on the same dysfunctional baseline slightly dressed in different shades although constantly presented as revolutionary whatever approaches.
Those who made the damage shall certainly not be the ones charged for the fixing but they should surely be bloody removed from a kind of responsibility that they should have never taken in the first place.
Their theories and practices should be exclusively on and for themselves and hands off from the rest of living, experts of other people's matters my bollocks.