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Our Encounters with Madness
Dr. Alec Grant (Ed.)
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Description for Our Encounters with Madness
Paperback. A collection of mental health service user, carer and survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to cpature, tame or sanitise the words of these 'the experts by experience'. Editor(s): Grant, Dr. Alec; Biley, Francis; Walker, Hannah. Series: Our Encounters with. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: MMJ; MQCL5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
'Our encounters with Madness' is a collection of user, carer and survivor narratives. These are grouped under five themes: On Diagnosis, Stories of Experience, Experiencing the System, On Being a Carer, and Abuse and Survival. The book will be of great benefit to students of mental health, professionals, service users and carers, and to those interested in narrative enquiry and the pedagogy of suffering. Unlike most other books in this genre, the narratives are unmediated. Written by 'experts by experience', there are no professional biomedical of psychotherapeutic commentaries, which often serve to capture and tame, or sanitise, such stories of direct experience.
Product Details
Publisher
PCCS Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Our Encounters with
Condition
New
Weight
411g
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906254384
SKU
V9781906254384
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Ref
99-15
About Dr. Alec Grant (Ed.)
Dr Alec Grant is Reader in Narrative Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Brighton. He is widely published in the fields of ethnography, autoethnography, clinical supervision, cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, and communication and interpersonal skills. His current and developing research and scholarly interests coalesce in the area of narrative inquiry and demedicalizing mental health. Francis Biley is Associate Professor at the University of Bournemouth. He has particular methodological interests in historiography, autoethnography, unitary appreciative inquiry and using the arts and humanities in health care. Clinically, he has interests in the built care environment, and in the service user movement in mental health and adult care. Hannah Walker is the Chairperson of the Dorset Mental Health Forum which, amongst other things, offers advocacy services and promotes recovery and wellbeing.
Reviews for Our Encounters with Madness
All the authors of these stories have suffered: some from what was inflicted on them as children, some from demons that seem to have been simply part of who they are or were and some the failure - at worst betrayal - of what are supposed to be helping professions. The authors have also found resources for survivial, and change, and the discovery of purpose in their lives - Which is why I understand this book as an exemplar of narrative healing. Professional intervention might begin with offering people the great gift of examples not to imitate, but from which to draw resources, which is what this book does. Professor Author Frank, from the foreword. The various authors in this book are engaged in making sense of their encounters with madness, by telling stories. Read those stories and you may well appreciate something of 'what' they have encountered. Reflect on their stories and you may well appreciate better your own 'self ' and your myriad encounters with life and its inherent madness. Professor Phil Barker, from the Foreword