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Myths, Madness and the Family - The Impact of Mental Illness on Families (Paperback)
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Myths, Madness and the Family - The Impact of Mental Illness on Families (Paperback)
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"David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues
entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.
The book provides us with a critical appraisal of the sociological
and psychological conceptual layers and the policy context
necessary for understanding these issues, all too often missing in
other books written about this subject... Through in-depth
interviews of forty carers, coached in a way which enables the
carers to talk in their own voice, we get the rare opportunity of
understanding the world of these carers...In letting the carers
speak Jones is enabling all of us to listen to them with the
respect they deserve... All of us - but especially mental health
professionals, policy makers and researchers - need to learn from
the methodology utilised in this study, and the content of the rich
experiential seam Jones exposes, as to how to listen better to
carers, and on which themes to focus in our working partnership
with users and carers." - Professor Shulamit Ramon, Anglia
Polytechnic University, Cambridge This book fills a gap in our
knowledge about the experiences of families of people suffering
from severe mental illness. Original research material is used to
support claims that families are struggling with complex feelings
such as loss, anger and shame. It is also argued that the ideas
families themselves hold about mental illness form an important
part of the cultural world in which mental illnesses are
understood. This stimulating book challenges many conventional
assumptions about family relationships by arguing that they have to
be understood in terms of 'myths' that bring a certain amount of
order to complex areas of emotional life. The author argues that
families if properly understood, can provide significant support
for people with severe mental illness.
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