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Searching for a Rose Garden Challenging Psychiatry Fostering Mad Studies edited by Jasna Russo

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Searching for a Rose Garden Challenging Psychiatry Fostering Mad Studies edited by Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney

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.

Product Specifications

Editors: Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney

Publisher: PCCS Books

Language: English

ISBN: 9781910919231

Format: Paperback

Length: 296 pages

Size: 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm

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