Basset / Stickley Voices of Experience

Narratives of Mental Health Survivors
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-97034-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, E-Book

Voices of Experience contains a wide range of storieswritten by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate howsurvivors have developed self-management techniques and strategiesfor living which, together, offer a guide to anybody strugglingwith 21st century life.
* Explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences,underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs
* Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and thisbook presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of theconcept
* Challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers acritical angle to our understanding of what it means to experiencemental health problems
* Offers guidance for mental health workers and professionalswithin the context of current mental health policies in the UK

Autoren/Hrsg.

Basset, Thurstine

Stickley, Theo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors vii
Contributors viii
1. Introduction 1
Thurstine Basset and Theo Stickley
Poem: Recovery - Libby Jackson 12
2. The Antidote to Madness: Crystallising out the Real Self 13
Peter Chadwick
Poem: But What is the Cause? - Libby Jackson 20
3. Surviving the System 21
Peter Campbell
Poem: They Come and Go - Dave St. Clair 31
Poem: Fixing Dinner - Dave St. Clair 32
4. Measuring the Marigolds 33
Alison Faulkner
Poem: The Tears I Cry - Mariyam Maule 45
5. Coping Strategies and Fighting Stigma 46
Joy Pope
Poem: Day by Day - Libby Jackson 57
6. Living with the Dragon: The Long Road to Self-Management of Bipolar II 58
Peter Amsel
Poem: In Exile - Mariyam Maule 75
7. Coping Strategies 76
Ruth Dee
Poem: Puppeteer - Esta Smith 84
8. What's it Like Having a Nervous Breakdown? Can You Recover? 85
Laura Lea
Poem: A Journey beyond Silence - Mariyam Maule 94
9. The Bridge of Sighs and the Bridge of Love: a Personal Pilgrimage 95
Peter Gilbert
Poem: Have You Ever Felt Lonely? - Dave St. Clair, 114
Poem: He Saved My Bacon - Dave St. Clair 115
10. The Holy Spirit - Healer, Advocate, Guide and Friend 116
Richard Lilly
Poem: Mist of Tears - Brice Jones 120
11. CAPITAL Writings 121
Thomas France, Timothy Bird, Richard Love, Kay Phillpot, Howard Pearce, Clare Ockwell and Jude Smith
Poem: Nicely Nicely Nought - Martin Snape 141
Poem: Feel Easy-Fit - Martin Snape 141
12. The Value of Self-Help/Peer Support 142
Caroline Bell, Sarah Collis and Joan Cook
Poem: The Clear Sky - Dave St. Clair 151
13. A Recovery Approach in Mental Health Services: Transformation, Tokenism or Tyranny? 152
Premila Trivedi
Poem: To What Could Have Been - Mariyam Maule 164
14. Stand to Reason 165
Jonathan Naess
Poem: I Am - Libby Jackson 173
15. Walking with Dinosaurs 174
John Stuart Clark
Poem: Negatives and Positives - Libby Jackson 182
16. Conclusions, Discussion and Ways Ahead 183
Thurstine Basset, Joan Cook and Theo Stickley
Poem: The Heart of Humankind - Mariyam Maule 192
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Thurstine Basset is a social worker who now runs his ownindependent training and development consultancy. His currentclients include the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Educationnot Discrimination at Rethink. He is the Chair of the Mental HealthTraining Forum, Middlesex University and a Visiting Fellow at theUniversity of Brighton. Together with Theo Stickley, he is jointeditor of Teaching Mental Health (Wiley, 2007) andLearning About Mental Health Practice (Wiley, 2008).
Theo Stickley is Associate Professor of Mental Health inthe School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham. Previously,he trained and worked in both mental health nursing andcounselling. Theo has led on a number of educational researchprojects in collaboration with people who use mental healthservices. He uses narrative as a research method, especiallyamongst people engaging with arts activities. He leads the EastMidlands Arts and Health Research Group; he is also a Director ofCity Arts, Nottingham, and leads the Art in Mind programme ofwork.