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By Jansa Russo,Angela Sweeney

looking for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that's unhelpful approximately sanestream understandings of and responses to psychological misery. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the co-option and corruption of survivor wisdom and perform by means of the mainstream. Chapters on survivor learn and idea display the consistent conflict to set up and keep a secure area for experiential wisdom inside academia and past. different chapters discover how survivor-developed initiatives and practices are cultivating a wealth of shiny blooms within the so much antagonistic of environments, supplying a tremendous imaginative and prescient for the long run. Referencing Joanne Greenberg’s book I by no means Promised you a Rose backyard, this assortment demonstrates the problem, selection and successes of the authors in practising a paradigm shift within the knowing of insanity and misery. This landmark textual content is vital examining within the rising box of Mad Studies.

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