It is a very interesting collection of critical mental health writing and certainly one of the best of its kind in the past few years, and £20 that no mental health professional wanting to understand some of the controversies of their work could regret spending. In this post he writes about the steps which led to the Beyond Diagnosis Committee, of which he is chair, and particularly focuses on a document about the use of language by mental health professionals, which makes suggestions for terms which are less pathologising and do not rely on diagnoses.