Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis: Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-Visioning Psychiatry

by Josephine Stanton and Patte Randal

This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry.

Underpinned by rigorous academic analysis using an evocative duo-ethnographic approach, the book explores the cultural and subcultural influences from childhood onwards - both traumatic and resilience-building...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367721902
• ISBN13: 9780367721909
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"