Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Preface , Preface , Introduction , Outside in: A Stance Towards Theory , Psychiatric diagnosis and its dilemmas , Missing the point: the shy story of disappointment , Dancing between discourses , Constructing Alternative Positions , Coming to reasonable terms with our histories: narrative ideas, memory, and mental health , “Where the hell is everybody?” Leanna’s resistance to armed robbery and negative social responses , Psychiatry, emotion, and the family: from expressed emotion to dialogical selves , Inside Out: An Appreciation of Practice , Space In Tight Corners: Practice-Based Examples , Open dialogues mobilise the resources of the family and the patient , Narrative psychiatry , Family needs, family solutions: developing family therapy in adult mental health services , The significance of dialogue to wellbeing: learning from social constructionist couple therapy , Privileging the Voice of the Client and Therapist , Narrative therapy with children of parents experiencing mental health difficulties , Hearing Voices: creating theatre from stories told by mental health service users , Beyond the spoken word , Voices from the frontline: “keeping on keeping on”—what matters to staff working in adult mental health services? , Afterword , Afterword
Sue McNab
"Sue McNab and Karen Partridge are to be congratulated for
assembling this book about creative positions in adult mental
health. Each contribution uniquely brings alive in vivid and moving
ways the importance of this book, demonstrating how making and
taking creative positions can open up multiple opportunities to
make a difference that is practically relevant for all those
involved in adult mental health. This is one of those books that
may well transcend professional and service boundaries and be on
the reading lists of all disciplines and be a source of
encouragement to people using professional services."--John B.
Burnham, systemic family therapist and author of "Family Therapy:
First Steps Towards a Systemic Approach"
"This collection is a wonderful array of multi-cultural
contributors who shape and form the many systemic therapeutic
possibilities and innovations in the context of international
mental health services. Such diversity is to be celebrated as the
main focus of the work is in the public services. The hope, coupled
with the artistic and ethical brushstrokes outlined throughout, is
indeed heartening in a time of manufactured austerity with its
designed cut-backs, contraction, and the predominance of diagnosis
with 'results driven' practices at the expense of creative and
effective treatments. Thank goodness for the bravery of this book,
its editors, and writers in their creative yet critical
positionings, and for those vibrant (and sometimes rightly angry)
marginal voices."--Imelda McCarthy, PhD, systemic therapist,
supervisor, writer, and presenter
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