- 110 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families. By broadly drawing on salutary possibilities, it brings evidence of existing and emerging approaches to resolve mental distress.
The unique volume brings several practices and testimonies together that can support people's healing and recovery, focusing on the following key interventions:
- Different ways of looking at emotional suffering beyond psy-knowledge, which many doctors, social workers, disability scholars, legal or policy experts and psy-professionals advocate for
- The role of expressive arts employed by both professionals and peers
- Efficacy of peer engagement of a professional nature in India, the newest globally emerging phenomenon, often heralded as the future of mental health worldwide
Deftly interwoven with patient and peer narratives in jargon-free language, this one-of-a-kind book brings practices and choices that can facilitate healing and ways out of permanent psychiatric patient-hood. This volume may be of interest to psychiatric and other helping professionals, therapists, researchers, current patients, caregivers, service providers, social workers, non-profits, students of psychology, social work and disability studies, as well as legal and policy experts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The many ways people heal: The zigzag nature of recovery
- Part I Recovering life and the myriad ways to heal
- 2 Learning from mistakes: A path to autonomy
- 3 Restoring children’s mental health through empathic listening
- 4 Pride, prejudice, and diagnosis
- 5 Somatic practices: The body as a resource in the healing process
- 6 Can mental health professionals have alternative stories?
- Part II A brush with the peer
- 7 Building pathways of return: Stitching community rehabilitation together
- 8 Healing with words
- 9 A palette that mixes voices and colors
- 10 “I feel like a person now”: Negotiating twin challenges of peer and parental figures in peer therapy
- Bibliography