TY - BOOK AU - Basset,Thurstine AU - Stickley,Theo ED - Wiley InterScience (Online service) TI - Voices of experience: narratives of mental health survivors SN - 9780470970362 AV - RC464.A1 V653 2010 U1 - 362.196/8900922 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Chichester PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Mentally ill KW - Biography KW - Mentally Ill Persons KW - Adaptation, Psychological KW - Mental disorders KW - Survivors KW - Medicine KW - HEALTH & FITNESS KW - Diseases KW - Nervous System (incl. Brain) KW - bisacsh KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Social Scientists & Psychologists KW - fast KW - Autobiography KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The antidote to madness : crystallising out the real self / Peter Chadwick -- Poem : but what is the cause? / Libby Jackson -- Surviving the system / Peter Campbell -- Poem : they come and go / Dave St. Clair -- Poem : fixing dinner / Dave St. Clair -- Measuring the marigolds / Alison Faulkner -- Poem : the tears I cry / Mariyam Maule -- Coping strategies and fighting stigma / Joy Pope -- Poem : day by day / Libby Jackson -- Living with the dragon : the long road to self-management of bi-polar II / Peter Amsel -- Poem : in exile / Mariyam Maule -- Coping strategies / Ruth Dee -- Poem : puppeteer / Esta Smith -- What's it like having a nervous breakdown? : can you recover? / Laura Lea -- Poem : a journey beyond silence / Mariyam Maule -- The bridge of sighs and the bridge of love : a personal pilgrimage / Peter Gilbert -- Poem : have you ever felt lonely? / Dave St. Clair -- Poem : he saved my bacon / Dave St. Clair -- The holy spirit : healer, advocate, guide, and friend / Richard Lilly -- Poem : mist of tears / Brice Jones -- Capital writings / Thomas France [and others] -- Poems : nicely nicely nought / Martin Snape -- Feel easy-fit / Martin Snape -- The value of self-help/peer support / Sarah Collis, Caroline Bell, and Joan Cook -- Poem : the clear sky / Dave St. Clair -- A recovery approach in mental health services : transformation, tokenism or tyranny? / Premila Trivedi -- Poem : to what could have been / Mariyam Maule --. Stand to reason / Jonathan Naess -- Poem : I am / Libby Jackson -- Walking with dinosaurs / John Stuart Clark -- Poem : negatives and positives / Libby Jackson -- Poem : the heart of humankind / Mariyam Maule N2 - Voices of Experience contains a wide range of stories written by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate how survivors have developed self-management techniques and strategies for living which, together, offer a guide to anybody struggling with 21 st century life.: Explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences, underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs; Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and this book presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of the concept; Challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers a critical angle t UR - https://eresourcesptsl.ukm.remotexs.co/user/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470970362 ER -