Mental Health User Narratives: New Perspectives on Illness and Recovery

Cohen, Bruce M.Z.

Following extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as drug-taking, spiritualism, alternative healing, sleep and watching television.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349522972

DOI: 10.1057/9780230593961

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 211