We are so excited to be travelling around the UK in 2024, delivering over 6 days of training and seminars to professionals and members of the public who follow our work. Overall, Dr. Taylor's book is a refreshing change from the standard approach to mental health, and I am excited to see where her ideas take us in the future."

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I hope mental health practitioners feel brave enough to explore these ideas, finally adopt approaches that are holistic, and take into account the social, political and cultural impacts upon the distress people experience." Dr. Jessica Taylor's newest book is a game-changer in the field of mental health. As an alternative for the standard DSM, it offers a fresh perspective on the way we diagnose and treat mental health issues. The ITIM is the world’s first completely trauma-informed manual of its kind, designed to indicate, respond to, and understand every kind of human trauma and emotion.

We are dedicated to changing the way we portray and support victims of abuse, violence and trauma all over the world. Would you like to join us? Building on decades of research, case studies, and evidence published by practitioners, academics, and scholars in the field, the ITIM equips progressive professionals with evidence-based, anti-oppressive, anti-blaming and non-diagnostic information about a wide range of human emotion, thought, and behaviour. Jaimi Shrive is a Doctoral Researcher undertaking a PhD in Politics, specialising in the way international and national politics changes the way governments respond to violence and abuse committed against women and girls. She is co-director of VictimFocus, a trainer, public speaker, and writer, creating educational resources for professionals who work in trauma, abuse and violence. She is the co-author of several public and confidential reports on the impact of violence, abuse, vicarious trauma, and misogyny in policing, and social care services.

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Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature An incredible step forward for trauma informed practitioners. The authors are high achieving academics with a vast amount of experience working directly supporting with people who have experienced trauma. The manual describes, explains, and explores everything from nightmares to self-harming in an A-Z of emotions, thoughts and behaviours that are common in traumatised and distressed people. This edition also includes diagrams, theories and peer reviewed evidence throughout. Drawing on systemic ideas to understand our lived experience, this is a well researched and hopeful resource.The ITIM (Indicative Trauma Impact Manual) is the world’s first completely trauma-informed manual of its kind, designed to indicate, respond to, and understand every kind of human trauma and emotion. The service is committed to teaching their clients and/or wider community about trauma, harm, distress, and oppression. Finally, a resource that is accessible, that blows open the argument that struggles with mental health are a problem located in the brain of the individual rather than an understandable and normal reaction to life events, trauma and stress. The ITIM has been peer reviewed and tested by a range of senior professionals, academics, clinicians, and people with lived experience of trauma and distress.”

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Having studied Psychology and working in the field of healthcare and education, I’ve long since known that commonly used theories and models of mental illness minimise and ignore so many factors and lead people to stigma, exclusion and harmful pathologisation. The ITIM is the first non-diagnostic, anti-pathology, anti-oppressive manual of mental health in the world The manual describes, explains, and explores everything from nightmares to self-harming in an A-Z of emotions, thoughts and behaviours that are common in traumatised and distressed people. This edition also includes diagrams, theories, tools, and peer reviewed evidence throughout. The service provides logical and rational approaches to traumatised people, which demonstrably consider what is in the best interests of their clients. Similarly, the service believes that trauma responses to distressing experiences are logical, rational, and explainable. VALIDATE is a term coined in the Indicative Trauma Impact Manual that encompasses a trauma-informed ethos.

practice and theory, and rejects any theory, resource, practice or policy that oppresses, stereotypes, harms, silences or ignores marginalised groups of people.