Barriers to Recovery from 'Psychosis': A Peer Investigation of Psychiatric Subjectivation

ISBN-13: 9781032158327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Prateeksha Sharma

Opis

This book inaugurates the field of Mad Studies in the Indian subcontinent investigating the barriers to recovery from the perspective of patients and caregivers.

Spis treści

1. Realities and Representations 2. Who Speaks for Whom and Why it Matters 3. Among Peers: The Place Where One is ‘Home’ 4. Benign Arm of Psychiatry and Birth of the Psychiatric Subject 5. Making the Transient Permanent - How Law Disables ‘Recovery’ 6. from Subject to Agent: What it Takes to ‘Recover’ 7. Possible Futures and Removing Barriers

O autorze

Prateeksha Sharma, psychotherapist-musicologist is the founder of Bright Side Family Counseling Center. Her counseling practice is informed both by her experiential perspectives and recovery research at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (Nalsar), Hyderbad. She works on interfaces between music, education, counseling, psychology and mental well-being among diverse demographics via advocacy, services, training and research.