
Committed to the Sane Asylum
Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Committed to the Sane Asylum
Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
About this book
In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing.
Interwoven patient/doctor narratives explain conventional care, highlight critical steps in healing, and explore varied perspectives through conversations with experts in psychiatry, feminist approaches, art, storytelling, and business. The book also includes reproductions of Susan's mental health records and dream paintings.
This book will be important for consumers of mental health care wishing to understand the conventional system and develop the best quality of life. Rich personal detail, critical perspective, clinical records, and art reproductions make the book engaging for a general audience and stimulating as a teaching resource in nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and art therapy.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Normal Beginnings
- 2 Protests
- 3 Towards Healing
- 4 Strengthening through Structure, Healing through Art
- 5 Conversations on Mental Health Care
- 6 Conversations on Story, Art, and Healing
- 7 War and Peace
- 8 An Eye to Delight
- Appendix I: Susan Schellenberg’s Art and Text
- Appendix II: Clinical Records and Glossary
- The colour plates