Demedicalising misery: Welcoming the human paradigm in mental health nurse education

- There is no causal biomedical basis for the occurrence of functional mental health problems.
- Instead, social and relational adversities are implicated in extreme psychological distress.
- Formulation rather than psychiatric diagnosis emerges as a more appropriate way to understand, research and help people with such distress.
- This has implications for mental health nurse education internationally, despite obstacles to curricular progress.