A practical and inspiring self-help guide to encourage anyone feeling apprehensive or uncomfortable about starting a conversation to step into their power, talk about their mental health and help them to support themselves as well as others in the same situation.
This book presents a diverse collection of essays, artworks and personal testimony exploring connections between mental health and the social constructs, political conditions, and technologies that that structure our lives. It features contributions from a broad range of artists, researchers, clinicians and mental health activists.
In examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, Mental health service users in research considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance.