Searching for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the co-option and corruption of survivor knowledge and practice by the mainstream. Chapters on survivor research and theory reveal the constant battle to establish and maintain a safe space for experiential knowledge within academia and beyond. Other chapters explore how survivor-developed projects and practices are cultivating a wealth of bright blooms in the most hostile of environments, providing an important vision for the future. Referencing Joanne Greenberg’s book I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, this collection demonstrates the challenge, determination and successes of the authors in working towards a paradigm shift in the understanding of madness and distress. This landmark text is essential reading in the emerging field of Mad Studies. Download Brenda A LeFrançois foreword here Contents: Foreword by Brenda A. LeFrançois Introduction Setting the scene 1. Responses to a legacy of harm Mary O’Hagan 2. Alternatives or a way of life? Bhargavi Davar 3. The haunting can end: trauma-informed approaches in healing from abuse and adversity Beth Filson 4. The role of survivor knowledge in creating alternatives to psychiatry Peter Beresford 5. The co-optation of survivor knowledge: the danger of substituted values and voice Darby Penney and Laura Prescott Survivor-produced knowledge 6. The transformative potential of survivor research Angela Sweeney 7. Towards our own framework, or reclaiming madness part two Jasna Russo 8. Whiteness in psychiatry: the madness of European misdiagnosis Colin King 9. Deciding to be alive: self-injury and survival Clare Shaw 10. Thinking (differently) about suicide David Webb 11. Community Treatment Orders: once a rosy deinstitutional notion Erick Fabris Survivor-controlled practice 12. Becoming part of each other’s narratives: Intentional Peer Support Shery Mead and Beth Filson 13. We did it our way: Women’s Independent Alcohol Support Patsy Staddon 14. Sexual violence in childhood: demarketing treatment options and strengthening our own agency Zofia Rubinsztajn 15. The Personal Ombudsman: an example of supported decision making Maths Jesperson 16. Kindred Minds: a personal perspective Renuka Bhakta 17. The Sunrise Project: helping adults recover from psychiatric drugs Terry Simpson Working in partnership 18. More voice, less ventriloquism: building a mental health recovery archive Dolly Sen and Anna Sexton 19. Teaching (like) crazy in a mad-positive school: exploring the charms of recursion Danielle Landry and Kathryn Church 20. Peer workers in the mental health system: a transformative or collusive experiment? Celia Brown and Peter Stastny 21. Dilemmas of identity and power Alison Faulkner 22. Is partnership a dirty word? Cath Roper 23. Co-creating the ways we carry each other: reflections on being an ally and a double agent Reima Ana Maglajlic The search goes on
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