Bruce M.Z. Cohen 
Mental Health User Narratives [PDF ebook] 
New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

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Following extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or ‘narratives’) of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as drug-taking, spiritualism, alternative healing, sleep and watching television.

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Table of Content

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction Mental Illness and Psychiatry Narratives Crisis Intervention and Home Treatment Methods The User Narratives Descent into Illness and Psychiatric Intervention Recovery from Illness and Self-Coping Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

About the author

BRUCE COHEN is a Research Fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He has previously researched mental health communities in Teesside and Bradford, publishing articles in the
Psychiatric Bulletin and
Science, Discourse and Mind. He has been awarded Research Scholarships to work in Australia and Germany, and is currently researching migrant youth in Berlin.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 211 ● ISBN 9780230593961 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Age 02-99 years ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4970616 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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