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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The Voice Hearer -- chapter 2 Beyond Belief -- chapter 3 The Network -- chapter 4 Mavericks in Maastricht -- chapter 5 Who's Crazy Now? -- chapter 6 Freedom Center -- chapter 7 Prisoner Abuse -- chapter 8 He Might Be Houdini -- chapter 9 Field Notes -- chapter 10 Peter, Who Comes From Jesus -- chapter 11 Philosophy of a Lunatic -- chapter 12 Whitsbury House -- chapter 13 Experts by Experience -- chapter 14 Secrets and Hostages -- chapter 15 Train Tracks -- chapter 16 Free Speech -- chapter 17 Trauma and Testimony -- chapter 18 Displaced Persons -- chapter 19 The Mental Market -- chapter 20 Hunger Strikers -- chapter 21 The Late Quartets -- chapter 22 Hidden in Plain Sight -- chapter 23 Visions Wrapped in Riddles -- chapter 24 Written on the Body -- chapter 25 The Wound Does the Healing -- chapter 26 Finding What Works and What Doesn't |
| Summary |
"In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other psychiatric patients have managed to get their stories out, or to publish them on their own. Today, in a vibrant network of peer-advocacy groups all over the world, those with firsthand experience of emotional distress are working together to unravel the mysteries of madness and to help one another recover. Agnes's Jacket tells their story, focusing especially on the Hearing Voices Network (HVN), an international collaboration of professionals, people with lived experience, and their families and friends who have been working to develop an alternative approach to coping with voices, visions, and other extreme states that is empowering and useful and does not start from the assumption that such people have a chronic illness. A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric conditions and the experiences of those who suffer. Hornstein's work helps us to bridge that gulf, guiding us through the inner lives of those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, depression, and paranoia, and emerging with nothing less than a new model for understanding one another and ourselves."--Provided by publisher |
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Mentally ill -- Institutional care
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Mental illness -- Alternative treatment.
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Mental illness -- Philosophy
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Psychiatry.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Schizophrenia.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Group.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Mental illness -- Alternative treatment
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Mental illness -- Philosophy
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Mentally ill -- Institutional care
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Psychiatry
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315083728 |
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1315083728 |
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