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From the Ashes of Experience: Reflections on Madness, Survival and Growth [Paperback]

Phil Barker (Author), Peter Campbell (Author), Ben Davidson (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (1 July 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1861561202
ISBN-13: 978-1861561206
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 60,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #32 in Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > Nursing > Psychiatric
- #43 in Books > Science & Nature > Medicine > Medical Sciences A-Z > Mental Health Services

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It could be argued that a more sensitive appreciation of the total reality of the "madness experience", an appreciation of the interior perceptions, feelings, thoughts and experience, and the exterior reactions based on them, is the single most important development that could improve the quality of life of the diagnosed mentally ill. This book aims to offer just that, presenting a number of personal experiences and providing an alternative to the received wisdom that "mental illness" is an affliction which all "patients" could avoid if they could.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Experience of Madness, 17 May 2000

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This book contains chapters written by mental health consumer/survivors, edited and discussed by distinguished advocates in the field of psychiatric nursing. All of the survivors eloquently describe their personal experience with madness and with institutional treatment sometimes more damaging that the madness itself. They present experiences of madness from the inside, the meaning these experiences hold for them, and the various and individual journeys each has taken in recovery and personal growth. Readers will find here descriptions of spiritual aspects of madness as well as accounts of recovery from madness through the "peer principle" of helping ourselves and others. Chapters were written by psychiatric survivors from Great Britain, the United States, and Australia. Authors from the United States include Kate Millett, Judi Chamberlin, Dan Fisher, and Sally Clay (myself).

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