COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; NOTE TO THE READER; CHAPTER ONE Drawing the line; CHAPTER TWO Living in the shadows; CHAPTER THREE Disorder, disorder; CHAPTER FOUR Finding kindred spirits; CHAPTER FIVE Surrendering; CHAPTER SIX The wounded storyteller; CHAPTER SEVEN The power of themulti-generational psyche; CHAPTER EIGHT War and peace; AFTERWORD; APPENDICES OF RESOURCES; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
This is a book written not just by a professional transpersonal psychotherapist but by someone who has walked the heart-rending path and experienced the psychological trauma of loving someone in psychosis; psychosis which still remains the greatest taboo in society today, together with its implicit diagnosis of a lifelong sentence of medication and no cure. It is in the main a personal and moving narrative of a mother looking to help her son avoid such a lifelong sentence of medication whilst trying to research holistic resources and alternative approaches for treatment at the same time as neg
