Ebook: Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies
Author: Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: PCCS Books Ltd
- Language: English
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Searching for a Rose Garden is an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores the toxicity of psychiatry and the co-option and corruption of survivor knowledge and practice by the mainstream. Chapters on survivor research and theory reveal the constant battle to establish and maintain a safe space for experiential knowledge within academia and beyond. Other chapters explore how survivor-developed projects and practices are cultivating a wealth of bright blooms in the most hostile of environments, providing an important vision for the future.
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