I canāt stop thinking about this whole push for registration and the professionalisation project within the context of Audre Lordeās piece, āThe Masterās Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masterās Houseā (Lorde, 1984). If I can circle back to the social work role within the realm of mental health, it makes sense to me to think about the alignment with psychiatry through this lens of the masterās tools, with the masterās house being the psychiatric hegemony and its brothers and sisters ā white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy. We already know that the biomedical model narrows meaning, closes off alternative possibilities, and obscures social and political drivers of distress. Another effect that makes this important for us to talk about is the fact that it is clear ā and has been clear to others who have argued this same point ā that the biomedical model of mental health and the psychiatric hegemony create a distance between āprofessionalā and āclientā that is oppressive (Medicating Normal, 2022). This results in an increased (and invisibilised) power differential, othering of the client, a lack of empathy for clients and their experiences, and a denial of the legitimacy of theirs and othersā lived experience expertise. This separateness contributes to and perpetuates the oppression caused by the psychiatric hegemony.