Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery - Hardcover

Cohen, Bruce M.Z.

 
9781403945365: Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Dr Bruce M Z Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His books include Being Cultural (2012), Psychiatric Hegemony: A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness (2016) and the Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health (2017).

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