Without medical diagnosis, much, much easier to see patterns of distress routed in people's lives and social histories, and today's society, economics and local and global politics. Patterns like these makes it potentially much easier to see what changes would reduce human stress - seems very obvious. But maybe currently too obvious and too challenging.
The most important idea from this that to me is made more explicit, is the greater possibility of showing how patterns link with what is happening in society, economics and politics. It seems almost too obvious - so too challenging. Society prefers to blame or at best accord a variety of identities or victimhood.
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.
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.
For info on my 5 day Workforce Development Programme email me at: Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com 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
For info on my 5 day Workforce Development Programme email me at: Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com 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
Thanks for the great videos! How many strengths should we list? The more strengths I list the more guilty I feel about being so blessed and yet being apparently unable to get anywhere in life.
Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment, glad you found it helpful and thanks for the encouraging feedback - I am going to post a lot more short films about the PTMF so watch out for them… Ray
Email me for more info on my PTMF and other Trauma informed training at Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com - and try my free Trauma Informed Care course at www.ladder4life.com I also deliver training on Reflective Practice, Trauma Informed Practice, and Jay Levy’s Pretretment approach to those furthest from mainstream services (from USA)
Hi Dr, I am a Trauma Informed Counsellor, I would like to know if your training are for users/patients or for professionals&counsellors. Thank you for what you do!!! A question for you: Don't you see the link between trauma and narcissism in people and how much all the things you said in this video are linked to that?..what do you think, from your knowledge studies and professional experience? Thank you again!
Get my free trauma informed practice course here: www.ladder4life.com Or Email me about my training offer at Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com This film is an episode from my training course about Jay Levy’s excellent “Pretreatment” approach.
Thank you for your excellent explanation of PTMF. As a traumatised survivor, I am coerced to understand what It is that I am surviving. When my greater interest would be something completely different. Such as, horticulture or geology or interior design or geography etc. Certainly not psychology or why people behave badly in society. Gotz Blome M.D. describes people professionally and in particular, characters that have been a subversive influence in their group all their lives. Currently, there is this type of nasty character as the leader of Syria. The people affected by him have fled in mass migration. What can you do about this subversive behaviour being inflicted secretly on masses of people. Let alone trafficked isolated children and people. Gotz Blome describes this person as the Centaury type in his book. They are male or female. " Advanced Bach Flower Therapy " A Scientific Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment. They behave as criminals. And there was a very nasty side in the life of Freddie Mercury ? ? The group had to accommodate inhuman behaviour.
I have watched this video after reading Heavy Light by Horatio Clare who is a follower of this treatment. Thank you for the very excellent description.
Great video, thank you! I am only in my 2nd year of Undergraduate study Psychology and Sociology, but I was recently made aware of this framework by my Clinical Psychology lecturer and I am sure that for my (as well as others) future career/life path this framework as well as coinciding ideas and frameworks will be of crucial importance. Note: Dr. Middleton starts to sum up the questions that summarize the framework from 3:00 Best Wishes
