Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them
personal narrative
People with psychosis can heal by rebuilding their life stories
The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves
Maps of Meaning: Story and Metastory
Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
My Story, Our Future: a storytelling project about living with psychosis
“There was not a single ‘typical’ story that emerged. Instead we found people navigating through their lives in a variety of ways. People talked about specific challenges, individual skills, abilities and strengths, and held different hopes and aspirations for the…
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Mapping Our Madness: The Hero’s Journey as A Therapeutic Approach
In Psychosis and Spirituality: Consolidating the New Paradigm , Chapter 18 is authored by Janice Hartley and called “Mapping Our Madness: The Hero’s Journey as A Therapeutic Approach”. She writes: “… The Hero’s Journey approach suggests that although someone may be ‘out of touch’ with consensus reality,…
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NEON (Narrative Experiences Online)
NEON (Narrative Experiences Online) is a large-scale research study running from 2017-2022. It looks at whether having online access to people’s stories of personal recovery from mental ill-health can help people experiencing psychosis and other mental health challenges with their…
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Social Connectedness & the Future of Compassionate Mental Health
From a blog post by Dr. Charlie Heriot-Maitland on the Compassionate Mental Health website: “Our brains are naturally very good at adapting and responding to our environments. That is, after all, how we’ve survived (in an evolutionary sense), but these built-in adaptive processes…
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A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis
