The following analysis addresses relationships between suffering and the self. It
emphasizes subjects' stories of experiencing chronic illness and their relationship to the …

Aim. The aim of this study was to increase and deepen the understanding of how psychiatric
patients in conversations with nurses narrate their experience of suffering. Methods. Data …

Background: Textbooks are central for the education of professionals in the health field and
a resource for practitioners already in the field. Objectives: This article focuses on how 12 …

The voices of people with lived experience of emotional distress, mental differences, and/or
psychiatric treatment are often excluded from traditional psychiatric research and literature …

Researchers need to stand amidst traumatized people to learn from them to begin to
understand the meaning of their suffering. Distance is lessened and listening intensified as …

Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science explores overlapping layers
of voices and stories that convey the social relations of psychiatric survivor participation …

Abstract Nahi Alon and Haim Omer claim that narratives in therapy and in popular beliefs
illuminate the historical-cultural sources of influence on current ideologies and practices …

How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the words conjure up
images from television and newspapers of seemingly random, meaningless violence. It is …

I am honored to invite readers into this extraordinary book. As colleague, student, and/or
teacher of many of the authors brought together in this collection, I have been surprised and …