| Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing Contributor(s): Schellenberg, Susan (Author), Barnes, Rosemary (Author) |
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ISBN: 155458034X ISBN-13: 9781554580347 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Mental Health - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Medical | Neurology |
| Dewey: 616.800 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. Interwoven patient/doctor narratives explain conventional care, highlight critical steps in healing, and explore varied perspectives through conversations with experts in psychiatry, feminist approaches, art, storytelling, and business. The book also includes reproductions of Susan's mental health records and dream paintings. This book will be important for consumers of mental health care wishing to understand the conventional system and develop the best quality of life. Rich personal detail, critical perspective, clinical records, and art reproductions make the book engaging for a general audience and stimulating as a teaching resource in nursing, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and art therapy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schellenberg, Susan: - Artist and writer Susan Schellenberg began her career as a public nurse. In 1980, she committed to healing from a 1969 psychosis and ten-year course of anti-psychotic drugs and to keeping a visual-art and written record of her dreams and inner journey as her mind healed. Susan's Shedding Skins, dream art with text, is on permanent exhibit in the main lobby at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Barnes, Rosemary: -Psychologist Rosemary Barnes has worked at Toronto General and Women's College Hospitals and been affiliated with the University of Toronto, York University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She has published on suicide, HIV conditions, and residential schools, and has provided expert opinion in legal cases relating to lesbian/gay issues and trauma. She is currently in independent practice. |
