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From the Ashes of Experience: Reflections of Madness, Survival and Growth

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This book contains chapters written by mental health consumer/survivors, edited and discussed by distinguished advocates in the field of psychiatric nursing. All of the survivors eloquently describe their personal experience with madness and with institutional treatment sometimes more damaging that the madness itself. They present experiences of madness from the inside, the meaning these experiences hold for them, and the various and individual journeys each has taken in recovery and personal growth. Readers will find here descriptions of spiritual aspects of madness as well as accounts of recovery from madness through the "peer principle" of helping ourselves and others. Chapters were written by psychiatric survivors from Great Britain, the United States, and Australia. Authors from the United States include Kate Millett, Judi Chamberlin, Dan Fisher, and Sally Clay (myself).