Searching for a rose garden : challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies / edited by Jasna Russo, Angela Sweeney.

England : PCCS Books, 2016.

viii, 261 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Setting the scene -- 1. Responses to a legacy of harm / Mary O'Hagan -- 2. Alternatives or a way of life? / Bhargavi Davar -- 3. The haunting can end: trauma-informed approaches in healing from abuse and adversity / Beth Filson -- 4. The role of survivor knowledge in creating alternatives to psychiatry / Peter Beresford -- 5. The co-optation of survivor knowledge: the danger of substituted values and voice / Darby Penney and Laura Prescott -- Survivor-produced knowledge -- 6. The transformative potential of survivor research / Angela Sweeney -- 7. Towards our own framework, or reclaiming madness part two / Jasna Russo -- 8. Whiteness in psychiatry: the madness of European misdiagnosis / Colin King -- 9. Deciding to be alive: self-injury and survival / Clare Shaw -- 10. Thinking (differently) about suicide / David Webb -- 11. Community Treatment Orders: once a rosy deinstitutional notion / Erick Fabris Survivor-controlled practice -- 12. Becoming part of each other's narratives: Intentional Peer Support / Shery Mead and Beth Filson -- 13. We did it our way: Women's Independent Alcohol Support / Patsy Staddon -- 14. Sexual violence in childhood: demarketing treatment options and strengthening our own agency / Zofia Rubinsztajn -- 15. The Personal Ombudsman: an example of supported decision making / Maths Jesperson -- 16. Kindred Minds: a personal perspective / Renuka Bhakta -- 17. The Sunrise Project: helping adults recover from psychiatric drugs / Terry Simpson Working in partnership -- 18. More voice, less ventriloquism: building a mental health recovery archive / Dolly Sen and Anna Sexton -- 19. Teaching (like) crazy in a mad-positive school: exploring the charms of recursion / Danielle Landry and Kathryn Church -- 20. Peer workers in the mental health system: a transformative or collusive experiment? / Celia Brown and Peter Stastny -- 21. Dilemmas of identity and power / Alison Faulkner -- 22. Is partnership a dirty word? / Cath Roper -- 23. Co-creating the ways we carry each other: reflections on being an ally and a double agent / Reima Ana Maglajlic -- The search goes on.