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Madness of Our Lives: Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery

  • ISBN-13: 9781843100577
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By Penny Gray
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2006
  • Format: Paperback 204 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Psychotherapy [MMJT]
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What precipitates mental breakdown? How do people experience such extremes - and how do they see others' interpretations and interventions? Most important, how do people recover from these episodes and get their lives back? These are some of the questions addressed in this anthology of first-hand accounts of mental breakdown and recovery. Ten very different stories together shed light on what triggers mental breakdown, what it is like to be 'mad', whether treatment helps and how people reclaim themselves and their lives.Based on tape-recorded interviews with people who have been through a mental breakdown and come out the other side of it, To Hell and Back breaks the silence around mental distress and offers hope and optimism to mental health service users and their carers.
Foreword by Peter Campbell. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: Dealing with life stresses. 1. Eating a Mars bar. 2. Counselling was the turning point. 3 No easy answers. 4. My music saved my life. PART II: Women survivors of childhood abuse. 5. I was lucky in a way. 6. I'd always thought crying was a sin. 7. Oops, there goes the telly. PART III: Young men in crisis. 8. I'd rather it was a chapter I'd forgotten about. 9. Doing all right, considering. 10. It does teach you a bit about human nature. PART IV: An insider perspective. 11. Really enthusiastic about antidepressants. Postscript. The professional view. Conclusions and practical advice. References. Further Reading. Resources.
Since counselling is fundamentally about listening to clients, this book represents a refreshing return to first principles...We all need to be reminded to listen well and to wear our theory lightly. If we need a reminder that people are active self-healers and the best we may be able to do is to accompany them (and not get in the way), we could take this book as essential reading.
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