“The insertion of the medical model into areas of social crisis serves to create unthinking passivity in swathes of the population and works in tandem with the financial and political ambitions that are afoot to create dissociation between bodies and minds. These forces pave the way, as intended, for destructiveness in the social fabric. As a model it is reductionist in nature through its widespread misuse of language within the health services, and new diagnostic labels that are meaningless when put under scrutiny, all the while being promoted in parliaments as an authoritative lens on what is happening on a grand scale to the bodies and minds of children.”