03159nam 2200745Ia 450 991015522360332120200520144314.01-299-31342-61-55458-130-310.51644/9781554581306(CKB)2430000000002810(EBL)685883(OCoLC)456149048(SSID)ssj0000478148(PQKBManifestationID)11269755(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478148(PQKBWorkID)10418976(PQKB)10123227(CaPaEBR)425592(CaBNvSL)slc00222358(MiAaPQ)EBC3262355(MdBmJHUP)muse14259(MiAaPQ)EBC685883(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/psd181(PPN)242835694(DE-B1597)667336(DE-B1597)9781554581306(EXLCZ)99243000000000281020080422d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCommitted to the sane asylum narratives on mental wellness and healing /Susan Schellenberg, Rosemary Barnes1st ed.Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc20091 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55458-034-X Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Normal Beginnings; 2 Protests; 3 Towards Healing; 4 Strengthening through Structure, Healing through Art; 5 Conversations on Mental Health Care; 6 Conversations on Story, Art, and Healing; 7 War and Peace; 8 An Eye to Delight; Appendix I: Susan Schellenberg's Art and Text; Appendix II: Clinical Records and Glossary; The colour plates In Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing, artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, and psychologist Rosemary Barnes relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art therapy. Patient and doctor each describe personal decisions about the mental health system and the creative life possibilities that emerged when mind, body, and spirit were committed to well-being and healing. <Mental illnessTreatmentArt therapyNarrative therapyArtistsCanadaBiographyMentally illCanadaBiographyPsychologistsCanadaBiographyMental illnessTreatment.Art therapy.Narrative therapy.ArtistsMentally illPsychologists616.80092Schellenberg Susan1934-935362Barnes Rosemary Ann1755215MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155223603321Committed to the sane asylum4191919UNINA