Developing Recovery Pathways for Mental Health Disorders through Creative Coproduction

A Case Study of Anorexia Nervosa
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-90656-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Concepts for Critical Psychology

This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery

tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of service

users with anorexia nervosa. Written by authors with expertise in both

mental health provision and experience of mental health services, the

book advocates a creative, coproductive approach to treating mental

disorders. Creative Coproduction involves significant interaction and

collaboration between health and social care professionals, sufferers,

recovered patients, educational establishments, families and scientists at

all levels of interaction. The book emphasises the importance of working

together creatively as a diverse yet cohesive team, adding to existing

knowledge through every interaction and discovering and developing

alternative recovery pathways. It challenges the stigma faced by people

with mental health difficulties, using Foucault’s concept and theory of

unreason. The book further uses the neuroscience of creativity as a lens

by which to identify creative characteristics and actions, discussing ways

this can be harnessed to transform recovery pathways through creative

practices. Centering the voices of service users and their families alongside

mental health professionals, this important book will be valuable

reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in health

and allied sciences, mental health and social work programmes. It will also

be highly relevant for health and social care professionals including mental

health nurses, allied practitioners, managers of community mental health

teams and community practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haslam, Jean

Sykes, Mita

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction. Creative Coproduction: A pro-active approach to the treatment of mental disorders using anorexia nervosa as an example

Chapter 1. Reversing the logic that thinness is more important than survival: Creativity and coproduction in treatment

Chapter 2. The creativity of science and its place in the co-productive treatment of mental disorders

Chapter 3. Realising and achieving Creative Coproduction in the treatment of mental disorders

Chapter 4. Reflections on personal experiences of anorexia nervosa, creativity and the recovery process

Chapter 5. The way forward. Practical steps, criteria and parameters for potential recovery from mental disorders through Creative Coproduction.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Haslam has a Doctorate in Psychotic Creativity and a Masters in

Education. She has been a user of mental health services for nearly

sixty years and has expertise in Foucault, transformative coproduction,

service user involvement and the Expert by Experience.

Mita Sykes is a mental health professional with longstanding personal

experience of anorexia and bulimia nervosa and long-term involvement

in the development of charities and educational programmes around

eating disorders. She has worked with Child and Adolescent Mental

Health Services (CAMHS) on a Creative Coproduction programme to

bring about recovery from eating disorders for young people and was

previously the manager of Bolton Patients Council with the remit to

involve service users in the planning, development and future of mental

health services.