Our Encounters with Madness

by Alec Grant (Editor), Fran Biley (Editor), Hannah Walker (Editor)

A collection of mental health service user, carer and psychiatric survivor narratives. Unusually, the narratives are unmediated hence there are no biomedical or psychotherapeutic commentaries to capture, tame or sanitise the words of these the experts by experience. Of interest to students of mental health, particularly those interested in first person experience.

253 pages, Paperback

First published April 11, 2014