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Title Voicing psychotic experiences : a reconsideration of recovery and diversity / edited by Ruth Chandler and Mark Hayward
Published Brighton : OLM-Pavilion, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents Voicing Psychotic Experiences -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Shirley�s legs -- Chapter 2: Discovering me -- Chapter 3: How I gained and continue to maintain my well-being � the fear is often worse than the reality -- Chapter 4: Thank God for the trees! -- Chapter 5: The subterranean lift -- Chapter 6: Pause for thought -- Chapter 7: Recovery from schizophrenia? A carer�s perspective -- Chapter 8: Lying on a mattress on the floor -- Chapter 9: Recovery � adventures in being
Summary Voicing Psychotic Experiences explores the process of recovery from psychosis, although is applicable to recovery from all mental health problems, by looking at definitions, research, diversity and personal experiences. This handbook presents a series of recovery narratives with the aim of giving an insight into the process of recovery with each chapter clearly pulling out 'lessons learnt' for practice. The authors challenge the notion that one single model of recovery can be an adequate operational model and they instead offer a qualitative evidence base for understanding psychotic experie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 30, 2013)
Subject Psychoses -- Case studies
Psychoses -- Treatment
Psychoses -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Psychotic Disorders -- therapy
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Psychoses
Psychoses -- Treatment
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Chandler, Ruth
Hayward, Mark (Mark Ian)
ISBN 9781908993014
1908993014