(1/2) The critical approach seems to be regularly misunderstood in terms of a 'guild rivalry' or 'turf war' or some such thing. This undermines a lot of what comes under that title. In the form of the PTMF, it is emphatically not another system or rival way of explaining..

(2/2)... the same phenomena. It has not been put forward to simply be inserted in the MH system in place of the DSM. It is radically different way of understanding human suffering that is totally at odds with the medical-diagnostic framework, which includes much of psychology..

(3/3).. as it is practised. Its implications, in fact, are ultimately socio-political. As such, framing it in terms of such rivalries is an easy way to dismiss it and to foreclose on increasingly vital conversations that at some point will be unavoidable.