Title Committed to the sane asylum : narratives on mental wellness and healing / Susan Schellenberg, Rosemary Barnes

Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Normal Beginnings; 2 Protests; 3 Towards Healing; 4 Strengthening through Structure, Healing through Art; 5 Conversations on Mental Health Care; 6 Conversations on Story, Art, and Healing; 7 War and Peace; 8 An Eye to Delight; Appendix I: Susan Schellenberg's Art and Text; Appendix II: Clinical Records and Glossary; The colour plates Summary In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. Interwoven patient/doct Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Schellenberg, Susan, 1934- -- Mental health Barnes, Rosemary Ann SUBJECT Schellenberg, Susan, 1934- Barnes, Rosemary Ann Schellenberg, Susan, 1934- fast Subject Mental illness -- Treatment. Mentally ill -- Canada -- Biography Artists -- Canada -- Biography Narrative therapy. Art therapy. Psychologists -- Canada -- Biography Mental health services. Narrative medicine. Physician and patient. Mental Disorders -- therapy Art Therapy Art Therapy -- methods Mental Health Services Mentally Ill Persons -- psychology Narration Physician-Patient Relations art therapy. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. Physician and patient Narrative medicine Mental health services Art therapy Artists Mental health Mental illness -- Treatment Mentally ill Narrative therapy Psychologists Canada Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Barnes, Rosemary Ann ISBN 9781554581306 1554581303 1299313426 9781299313422

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