Journeys Beyond the Frontier

"How much do you know about psychosis? How comfortable are you with hallucinations and delusions? How much do you trust our current medical model mental health system? Need a guidebook? Millions of people are having psychotic experiences. Millions more care about them and share their lives, homes, and communities. Nearly all of them are in the dark--confused, scared, and overwhelmed--unfortunately, usually including the mental health workers trying to help them. Over time, many will become helpless and hopeless. They need light shined on them, not on their biology and their illnesses, but on their experiences, their lives, and their recoveries. They need understanding and compassion. They need guidance. This book is the most sensitive and comprehensive guidebook for psychosis available today. It rebels against the pervasive, simplistic, illness-centered, medical model used in our mental health system, using hundreds of touching stories to describe in everyday language the understandings, the emotional strengths, and the practical tools we need" --