Voices of Experience: Narratives of Mental Health Survivors

Voices of Experience contains a wide range of storieswritten by mental health survivors. The narratives illustrate howsurvivors have developed self-management techniques and strategiesfor living which, together, offer a guide to anybody strugglingwith 21 st century life. * Explores a wide variety of mental distress experiences,underpinned by many different explanations and beliefs * Narrative has been central to the recovery approach and thisbook presents stories of recovery as well as an appraisal of theconcept * Challenges simplistic explanations of recovery and offers acritical angle to our understanding of what it means to experiencemental health problems * Offers guidance for mental health workers and professionalswithin the context of current mental health policies in the UK