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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Based on a travelling photo-text exhibit produced by the non-profit Family Diversity Project, this book features posed but casual portraits and candid first-person accounts of mentally ill people and their families. Beard and Gillespie (both licensed clinical social workers) present 44 families from a wide range of racial, educational, geographic and class backgrounds, as "mental illness knows no boundaries." Portraitist Kaeser's simple black-and-white photographs show the families involved, but are not stirring enough to catch the interest of casual browsers; much more revealing are the interviews. All the subjects here identify themselves as mentally ill, but the words they use to describe their conditions run from the clinical to the vernacular; some "consider worlds like `nuts' and `crazy' to be just as offensive as racial epithets; others use these words with a sense of humor." Some methods for coping with mental illness may come as a surprise, as one schizophrenic woman says, "When I told my mother about my voices, she said, `Just listen to them.' So I would listen to them until they would go away."
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The companion to a traveling photo-text exhibit mounted by the nonprofit agency Family Diversity Projects, this handsome album aims to dispel myths about mental illness and the accompanying stigma. Social workers Beard (retired) and Gillespie (codirector, Family Diversity Projects) compiled the stories of 44 self-selected families whose lives have been changed by mental illness, with Kaeser supplying the fine duotone photos. A range of disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression), ethnic groups, geographic regions, ages, and income levels are represented, and a brief introduction educates the reader about psychiatric disorders. Each story typically includes a narrative by the patient as well as sibling or parental views of the illness. Most of the clearly written essays reflect the view that mental illness is a chemically based brain disorder and that with medication and the support of families and mental health professionals, one can live happily. Each story is surprisingly original and moving, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss's tale of a boy and his impaired uncle is particularly poignant. The book concludes with a useful resource guide. The result is a well-conceived volume that should serve as a unique tool for raising public awareness, though its somewhat specialized and discursive nature probably makes it an optional purchase for most public libraries. [This book is published in conjunction with Family Diversity Projects.-Ed.]-Antoinette Brinkman, M.L.S., Evansville, I.
--Antoinette Brinkman, M.L.S., Evansville, IN
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Based on a travelling photo-text exhibit produced by the non-profit Family Diversity Project, this book features posed but casual portraits and candid first-person accounts of mentally ill people and their families. Beard and Gillespie (both licensed clinical social workers) present 44 families from a wide range of racial, educational, geographic and class backgrounds, as "mental illness knows no boundaries." Portraitist Kaeser's simple black-and-white photographs show the families involved, but are not stirring enough to catch the interest of casual browsers; much more revealing are the interviews. All the subjects here identify themselves as mentally ill, but the words they use to describe their conditions run from the clinical to the vernacular; some "consider worlds like `nuts' and `crazy' to be just as offensive as racial epithets; others use these words with a sense of humor." Some methods for coping with mental illness may come as a surprise, as one schizophrenic woman says, "When I told my mother about my voices, she said, `Just listen to them.' So I would listen to them until they would go away."
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The companion to a traveling photo-text exhibit mounted by the nonprofit agency Family Diversity Projects, this handsome album aims to dispel myths about mental illness and the accompanying stigma. Social workers Beard (retired) and Gillespie (codirector, Family Diversity Projects) compiled the stories of 44 self-selected families whose lives have been changed by mental illness, with Kaeser supplying the fine duotone photos. A range of disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression), ethnic groups, geographic regions, ages, and income levels are represented, and a brief introduction educates the reader about psychiatric disorders. Each story typically includes a narrative by the patient as well as sibling or parental views of the illness. Most of the clearly written essays reflect the view that mental illness is a chemically based brain disorder and that with medication and the support of families and mental health professionals, one can live happily. Each story is surprisingly original and moving, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss's tale of a boy and his impaired uncle is particularly poignant. The book concludes with a useful resource guide. The result is a well-conceived volume that should serve as a unique tool for raising public awareness, though its somewhat specialized and discursive nature probably makes it an optional purchase for most public libraries. [This book is published in conjunction with Family Diversity Projects.-Ed.]-Antoinette Brinkman, M.L.S., Evansville, I.
--Antoinette Brinkman, M.L.S., Evansville, IN
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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