Living with mental illness
Subtitle: mental health professionals share their personal and family experiences
By: edited by Stephen P. Hinshaw.
Contributors: Hinshaw, Stephen P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195320268
Subjects: Mental health personnel -- Mental health; Mental health personnel -- Family relationships; Mental health personnel -- Biography; Mentally ill -- Family relationships; Mental Disorders -- Personal Narratives; Family Relations -- Personal Narratives
Genres: Biography.; Personal Narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: My story is one of loss / Laura B. Mason; title: Finding my mind / Ruth White; title: A field agent in our midst / Tara Peris; title: Laura's story: making sense of and deriving meaning from her life with mental illness / Elizabeth B. Owens; title: In my voice: speaking out about mental health and stigma / Jeffrey Liew; title: Columbus Day, 1994: a new world / Kay S. Browne; title: The meaning of mental health (and other lessons learned) / Marc S. Atkins; title: Memories of parental decompensation / Theodore P. Beauchaine; title: Weeping mother / Jarralynne Agee; title: The game with no rules: a sibling confronts mental illness / Jessica Borelli; title: Reverberations / Peter E. Nathan; title: "He just can't help it": my struggle with my father's struggle with bipolar disorder / Esme A. Londahl-Shaller; title: Performing human / Janet Lucas; title: The legacy of loss: depression as a family affair / Carolyn Zahn-Waxler.