Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies

by Jasna Russo (Editor), Angela Sweeney (Editor)

This collection introduces and explores radical alternatives to mainstream psychiatric practices. Crucially, these are not alternatives developed by professionals; they are innovative, survivor-led and survivor-run grassroots approaches based on people who have direct experience of mental health issues and who have been through the mental health process themselves.

Genres: Nonfiction, Disability, Psychology, Mental Health, Politics, Disability Studies, Essays

200 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2016

Reviews

[Cian Aherne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life (and system) changing book. This is an incredible collection of writings that should be the first read by anyone entering into the field of mental health. Mind-bending, critical reflection, outside the box and motivating. The system needs changing, let’s do it!

[Lauren Zanders · Rating 4 out of 5]

I definitely skipped around a bit as all of the essays were not correlated but this was a very interesting read. It is beneficial to understand the other side of essentially everything I'm being taught. Definitely one to revisit and keep on my (future) office bookshelf.

[jaseanton_com · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great overview of debates around mental health.