Patte Randal, Josephine Stanton

Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000608786
• Artikelnr.: 63986325

Autorenporträt

Patte Randal, LRPC, MRCS, DPhil, has personal experience of recovery from psychosis. Her published research includes evaluation of a therapeutic intervention she developed for people with treatment refractory psychosis, and qualitative exploration of doctors' experience of mental health care. Retired from 30 years of clinical practice, she now promotes the implementation of 'The Gift Box', a collaborative resilience-building tool based on her 'Re-covery' model.

Josephine Stanton, MA, MBChB, FRANZCP, is a psychiatrist working with adolescents, children, mothers and babies and their families. Her research has included qualitative studies of mothers who have killed their children, experiences of doctors who have become patients of psychiatrists, and referrers and young people's experience of engaging with an acute inpatient unit.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Becoming Ourselves: Patte's Story (1951-1980, birth to 29)
1: Trust and Betrayal: The Divided Self
2: Medical School - Skeletons, Cadavers, Gray's Anatomy and Desensitisation
3: An Extreme State and a Sense of Pathway
4: Research and Metaphor: Medical Nemesis
5: Completing Medical School - Examining Reflexes
Josephine's Story (1954 - 1983, birth to 29)
6: Autonomy, Invulnerability, and a Commitment to Service
7: Losing Sight of Science and Walking Away From Love
8: Completing Medical School. Training to be Superhuman and Joining the Medical Club
Part 2 Becoming Doctors and Choosing Psychiatry: Patte's Story 1980-1995 (ages 29-44)
9: The Pleasant Smell of Aftershave and the Imagined Relief of Not Existing
10: Worse than a Nuclear Winter
11: Trust Betrayed: Confronting the Devil
12: Evolving from Atheism - A Spiritual Emergency
13: Defining the Essence of Psychiatry
Josephine's Story 1985-1995 (ages 31 to 41)
14: After Africa - Rekindling Passion for Medicine and Love
15: Feeling Lost in Psychiatry and Found in Mothering
16: Beginning to Find my Place in Psychiatry
17: Jumping Through Hoops and Becoming a Patient
Part 3 Learning from Experience: Patte's Story 1996 to 2020 (ages 45-69)
18: A Herculean Task - 'Hope and a Future'
19: Something Wrong on the Inside - The Paradox
20: Finding my Voice ... And Losing It Again
21: Side Effects, Spirituality, and Finding My Niche
22: Disruption in Meaning-Making: The Last Extreme State
23: Lighting a Candle for Justice
24: Ways of Making Sense
25: The Re-covery Model
26: Living the Experience of Now - My Life Beyond Psychiatry
Josephine's Story 1998 to present day (ages 44-65)
27: Becoming a Psychiatrist - A Pathway of Impossible Jobs
28: My Alternative Training - Pathway to Becoming the Psychiatrist I want to be
29: Against All Odds: Maintaining My Personal and Professional Identity
Patte's Story
30: Creative Energy and 'The Gift Box'
Epilogue: It's About Time.