Dr Lucy Johnstone - Psychologist - Formulation & Power Threat Meaning Framework

It was absolute pleasure to speak to Dr Lucy Johnstone within today’s episode of the podcast. She was ain inspiration and a great help to me as an aspiring psychologist. She does lots of work around formulation and helping psychologists understand the importance of it as a practice. Currently she is leading the charge to normalise formulation to be used in place of diagnoses which can be so harmful to many clients. I hope you will find the episode useful and thought provoking. The Highlights: 00:28: Welcome 01:46: The Aspiring Psychologist Book & Membership 02:51: Connecting on Socials 03:50: Introduction to Lucy 04:57: Lucy & her Work 06:02: Formulation 07:14: Johnstone & Dallos Formulation Book 09:01: Sharing Formulations in contrast to Diagnoses 10:12: The pain of a diagnosis 10:44: Developmental Trauma 13:11: The trouble with Diagnostic labels 14:24: Growing up in 2022 with social media 15:18: A straight-talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis 16:02: Professional qualifications 16:49: Go to formulation tips 18:07: Trauma informed perspective enlightening. 19:41: Where to start with formulating 20:00: Why now? 22:08: Not exclusive to psychology 23:25: What does formulation look like in simple terms? from, um, more clinical work recently? How are you adjusting to that? 25:52: Adjusting to stepping away from clinical work 28:17: Lucy’s advice for aspiring psychologists: 28:17: 30:19: Finding your own way of seeing the world 31:42: Narrative based understandings 32:52: Just get started! 33:47: Burnout in psychology 35:36: Lucy’s Advice 36:41: Accessing Lucy’s books & work 38:03: Thanks to Lucy 39:00: Summary & Connecting on Socials 39:17: The Compassionate Q&A & Close Links: Links to Lucy’s books: • Johnstone, L: Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions) Paperback – 23 Sept. 2021: https://amzn.to/3Ly6IJl • Johnstone & Dallos: Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making sense of people's problems: https://amzn.to/3y64Ovn • Johnstone & Boyle: A Straight Talking Introduction To The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative To Psychiatric Diagnosis: https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products... • A Straight-Talking Introduction To Psychiatric Diagnosis (Second Edition) https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products... And link to the PTMF website: • https://www.bps.org.uk/power-threat-m... Follow Lucy on Twitter: @clinpsychLucy Connect socially with Marianne and check out ways to work with her including the upcoming Aspiring Psychologist Book and The Aspiring Psychologist Membership on her Link tree: https://linktr.ee/drmariannetrent • To check out The Clinical Psychologist Collective Book: https://amzn.to/3jOplx0 Like, Comment, Subscribe & get involved: If you enjoy the podcast, please do subscribe and rate and review episodes. If you'd like to learn how to record and submit your own audio testimonial to be included in future shows head to: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co... and click the blue request info button at the top of the page.