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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Institutionalizing Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity

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    Book SynopsisThe contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross-border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Within this wider context of ongoing fluidity, transition and diversity, qualitative research methodologies in psychology are rapidly evolving, featuring innovative ways to examine the dynamic interrelation of societal and psychological processes. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research sets the stage for cutting-edge debates on how innovative approaches in qualitative research in psychology can contribute to tackling current challenges in our society. The handbook depicts innovation in qualitative research in psychology with respect to methodological approaches like visual methods, arts-based research, discursive and narrative approaches, multimodal approaches, and pluralistic/mixed methodology approaches. It addresses a wide range of contemporaryTrade Review"This handbook does what it says on the tin, and more, giving voice to a diverse range of innovative approaches in qualitative research that engage with the experience of those we work with, while enacting that ethos in the structure of the book with critical reflection enabling readers to take their own position in the debates."Ian Parker, University of Manchester, UK"This Handbook is a welcome contribution to the field of qualitative research more broadly, and in Psychology specifically. The Handbook makes a strong case that innovation is timely and important, as personal and social lives shift alongside global – and increasingly complex – challenges. The diversity of contributors provides a valuable multiplicity of voices and perspectives on a broad range of innovations in qualitative research. Contributors are located from across more than 15 European countries; this includes junior and senior scholars and researchers from a variety of areas within Psychology. They apply innovative thinking to methods, methodologies, and theories, across a raft of contemporary issues. As a whole the Handbook provides insight, provokes thought, and encourages beneficial debate and dialogue on what innovation is and what it means for qualitative research in Psychology in a way that will extend the field and appeal to a wide audience."Professor Antonia Lyons, Director, Centre for Addiction Research, University of AucklandTable of ContentsFOREWORDKenneth GergenPART I. SETTING THE SCENE: QUALITATIVE PSCYHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Innovation in qualitative psychological research: Tackling methodological and societal challenges Eleftheria Tseliou, Brendan Gough, Carolin Demuth and Eugenie Georgaca Diversity with a purpose: Reflections on qualitative psychology research Carla Willig The line as a root metaphor for qualitative psychology Svend Brinkmann part II. Innovation in the process of inquiry: Method-focused contributions EDITOR: Eleftheria Tseliou Performative social science Günter Mey Dramatization: Cultural and psychological foundations of performative methodologies Shuangshuang Xu and Luca Tateo Combining narrative inquiry and Foucaultian discourse analysis: Narrative-discursive analysis Marco Gemignani and Viv Burr Sociopsychodrama as a qualitative research method Vedrana Mirković and Jana Damjanov Analytical pluralism: An application to the exploration of adult attachment Deborah Bailey-Rodriguez and Nollaig Frost Children’s drawings as data in psychology: Replicating William Stern’s 1905 study on the Land of Plenty Andrea Kleeberg-Niepage and Johanna Degen Disentangling meaning in hard to understand data through expanding the Listening Guide Franziska Müller, Sasmita Rosari, Jessica Höhn, Marie-Luise Springmann, and Mechthild Kiegelmann Researchers’ triangulation in interviews analyses: Inter-subjectivity as an asset for the production of original interpretative ideas An illustration with a French research on intimate partner violence experience Leìa Restivo, Solveig Lelaurain and Theìmis Apostolidis REFLECTION From Epistemology and Integrating Multiple Methods to Performing Social Science Reflections on Section 1 "Innovation in the Process of Inquiry: Method-focused Contributions" Uwe Flick PART III: Innovative participant-centered health and mental health projects EDITOR: Eugenie Georgaca How can incorporating participant-generated photographs with interviews enhance interpretative phenomenological accounts about living with chronic illness? 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Willamson, Periklis Papaloukas, Nicholas Shaw, Emily Print and Kerry Quincey Body mapping the experience of fibromyalgia syndrome Maja Smrdu & Laura Jereb Creative phenomenology within health and social care research: Bridging the gap between experience and expression William Day, Shioma-Lei Craythorne, Tiago Moutela, Katharine Slade, and Gemma Heath Alliance ruptures and repairs as a discursive process: A Conversation Analysis perspective Peter Muntigl & Adam Horvath Tracking change in group psychotherapy: Systematic methodological steps to record the development of clients’ inner voices Maria Viou, & Eugenie Georgaca Inner and outer dialogue in couple therapy: The potential of Stimulated Recall Interviews Virpi-Liisa Kykyri, Jarl Wahlström, & Jaakko Seikkula REFLECTION New ways of looking, new things to see: Invited Reflection on Part III Jonathan A Smith PART IV: Innovative COMMUNITY-FOCUSED PROJECTS EDITOR: Brendan Gough Working with, not on unemployed people: How to explore subjective unemployment experiences in the affective economy Sabina Pultz Using Innovative Qualitative Research Methods in Vulnerable Populations: Image-Based Research as Culturally Sensitive Alessandro Pepe and Loredana Addimando Asset Mapping Towards Community Development: Exploring Home-Based Care Services in Cairo, Egypt Yomna M. El-Taweel and Irene Strasser From capturing social issues to art production and community mobilization: A participatory multimodal study of life in Eleusis Issari, P., Karydi, E., Georgaca, E., Koliouli, F., Skali, D., Papadopoulos, N., El Raheb, K., Ioannidis, Y., Kalabratsidou, V., Diamantides, P., Stergiou, M., Gkiokas, P. and Vassilakou, V. Systems thinking, rhizomes, and community-based qualitative research: An introduction to Nomadic Thematic Analysis Alexios Brailas and Konstantinos Papachristopoulos REFLECTION Innovative community-focused projects: critical reflection Rebecca Lawthom PART V: Thinking innovatively about societal issues EDITOR: Carolin Demuth Beyond procedural ethics: four levels of research ethics in qualitative research Laure Kloetzer Collaborative practice research: Inequality in school as an example Charlotte Højholt Applying discursive methodologies to understanding hate speech on social media platforms Simon Goodman, Abigail Locke, Mick Finlay and Rosemary Lobban Toilet talk: (Trans)Gendered negotiation of public spaces John Somers, Shani Burke, Philippa Carr and Mirko Demasi Accessing ambivalences of the (feminist) self?! Advancing psychosocial analyses at the intersection of explicit and implicit knowledge by using the documentary method Katharina Hametner, Natalie Rodax and Sandra Reisch Learning Pluralism and Researching Pluralistically: Pluralistic Qualitative Research as a model for teaching and learning qualitative research in psychology Sarah Foley, Nollaig Frost and Maria Dempsey REFLECTION Methods in Society: Constrained Pluralism Jan Valsiner CLOSING Innovative qualitative psychological research in light of pressing methodological, societal and health challenges – looking ahead Carolin Demuth, Eugenie Georgaca, Brendan Gough and Eleftheria Tseliou

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies Volume 2

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Assessment of Responsible Innovation

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  • Taylor & Francis Managing Creativity

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  • Taylor & Francis Writing the Self and Transforming Knowledge in International Relations

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Networks and Travel Behaviour

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  • Taylor & Francis Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology

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  • Taylor & Francis Translation and the Sustainable Development Goals

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd A Visual Approach to the Study of Religious Orders

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing and Conducting Research in Social Science Health and Social Care

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  • Taylor & Francis Critical and Cultural Interactionism

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Sport Physical Activity and AntiColonial Autoethnography

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Killer Data

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  • Taylor & Francis Innovation Research in Technology and Engineering Management

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd On Sacks

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Keeping Races in Their Places

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Racism on Campus

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  • Taylor & Francis Racism on Campus

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Keeping Races in Their Places

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Creative ArtsBased Research in Aged Care

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  • Taylor & Francis ReReading Ishis Story

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    Book SynopsisRereading Ishiâs Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeberâs 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.The heart of the analysis involves a five-play cycle, built around Gerald Vizenorâs trickster-survivance model. It gives Ishi a voice he never had in Kroeberâs book and imagines an Ishi who was not the happy warrior in Kroeberâs book. The author follows the story line in Kroeberâs book, focusing on key events as recounted by Alfred Kroeber and his associates Saxton Pope and Thomas Waterman. Chapter 1 tells Ishiâs story in his own words; Chapter 2 retells Ishiâs capture narrative, which includes the recording of his story of the wood ducks; Chapter 3 builds on stories told about Ishi by Zumwalt Jr.; Chapter 4 criticizes Kroeber and associates for making Ishi return to his homeland, asking him to âplayâ Indian; and Chapter 5 takes up his death and the recovery ofTable of ContentsPart One Chapter 1. You Can Call Me Ishi: The Story of a Trickster Chapter 2. Ishi and the Wood Ducks, Part 2, or Ishi, the Assimilated Indian Chapter 3. Ishi the Happy Warrior in Golden Gate Park Chapter 4. Ishi in the Wilderness: Anatomy of a Life and a Death (1861-1916) Chapter 5. Ishi’s Brain: The Trickster’s Revenge; Part Two Chapter 6. Ishi’s Ethics Chapter 7. Ishi Comes Home

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  • Taylor & Francis ReReading Ishis Story

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook of Critical Education Research

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Marketing Research

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

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  • Taylor & Francis Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary AuschwitzOswiecim

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary AuschwitzOswiecim

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    Book SynopsisThis book presents an innovative theoretical and empirical approach to the present attributions of meaning to the past. Based on the author's fieldwork in the contemporary Polish town of Oswiecim Auschwitz, in German it observes the manner in which residents remember and narrate the past of their town, drawing on theoretical perspectives from the work of figures such as George Herbert Mead and Erving Goffman. With attention to narratives concerning pre-war CatholicJewish coexistence, wartime Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and post-war Communist Poland, the author explores the complementary, fluid and contradictory nature of meaning-making processes in various contemporary interactional contexts, both online and offline. As such, it will appeal to social scientists with interests in memory studies, the Holocaust and interactional sociology.Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Synchronic, Interactional Approach to Collective Memory 2. A Critique of Memory Studies’ Epistemologie s 3. Collective Memory and the Self: Towards an Epistemology of ‘Dividuals’ 4. Interactional Memory Methods 5. The Politization of Auschwitz/Oświęcim since 1944: Memory Politics in Poland and Beyond 6. Including or Excluding Jews? An Analysis of Context-Dependent Othering in Auschwitz/Oświęcim 7. Ethnifying Agency: Inhabitants of Auschwitz/Oświęcim Narrating 1939–1945 8. Renegotiating Auschwitz: Attribution of Meaning to Spatial Realms in Auschwitz/Oświęcim 9. Conclusion

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Categorical and Nonparametric Data Analysis

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  • Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Researching in the Former Soviet Union

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd EvidenceBased Policing

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    Book SynopsisWhat is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate students and a hands-on guide for police officers wanting to know how to put principles into practice. It serves as a gentle introduction to the terminology, ideas, and scientific methods associated with evidence-based policy, and outlines some of the existing policing applications. A couple of introductory chapters summarize evidence-based policy and its goals and origins. The core of the book eases the reader through a range of practical chapters that answer questions many people have about evidence-based practice in policing. What does good science look like? How do I find reliable research? How do I evaluate research? What is a hypothesis? How do randomized experiments work? These chapters not only provide a practical guide to reading and using existing research, but also a roadmap for readers wanting to start their own research pTrade ReviewEvidence-based policing must engage a wider audience, including students and police officers new to the subject. Jerry Ratcliffe’s accessible and practical book is an ideal introduction. It not only shows why EBP is so important, but also how to do policing with better evidence for better results. If every police officer could master the content of this book, the world would be a safer place. Lawrence W. Sherman, Cambridge University and Honorary President, Society for Evidence-Based PolicingAs a police practitioner who understands the complexity of evidence-based policing, I highly recommend Jerry’s new book which breaks it down into manageable bite-size chunks. With simple figures, insightful callouts, flowcharts, and short, easy-to-read chapters, this is the perfect guide to this emerging paradigm.Renée Mitchell, Police Sergeant (Sacramento PD retd.) and President of the American Society of Evidence-Based PolicingPolice leaders who are interested in understanding the knowledge base of their profession need this book. It helps executives make smart, informed decisions about new plans, programs, and initiatives they may be considering. It also gives leaders the information necessary to collaborate with academics on research projects that will benefit their agencies and the profession.John Hall, Deputy Inspector, New York City Police Department and NIJ LEADS scholarThis book breaks down and practically explains evidence-based policing. Not only is it a useful guide for police officers wanting to understand if their strategies, tactics, or policies are having the desired impact, it should be used by researchers wanting to work with police to better understand evidence-based policing. Mike Newman, Detective Inspector, Queensland Police Service, AustraliaTable of Contents1. What is evidence-based policing? 2. What are the origins of evidence-based policy? 3. What does good science look like? 4. What is the scientific method? 5. How do you identify a specific problem? 6. How do you find reliable research? 7. How do you evaluate policy research? 8. How do you develop a hypothesis and research question? 9. What are some core research concepts? 10. How do you make research methodology choices? 11. How do randomized experiments work? 12. How do you design a powerful experiment? 13. How do you know if an intervention is significant? 14. Where do you publish results? 15. What are the challenges with evidence-based policing? 16. What is next for evidence-based policing?

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd ANOVA and Mixed Models

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    ANOVA and Mixed Models: A Short Introduction Using R provides both the practitioner and researcher a compact introduction to the analysis of data from the most popular experimental designs. Based on knowledge from an introductory course on probability and statistics, the theoretical foundations of the most important models are introduced. The focus is on an intuitive understanding of the theory, common pitfalls in practice, and the application of the methods in R. From data visualization and model fitting, up to the interpretation of the corresponding output, the whole workflow is presented using R. The book does not only cover standard ANOVA models, but also models for more advanced designs and mixed models, which are common in many practical applications.Features Accessible to readers with a basic background in probability and statistics Covers fundamental concepts of experimen

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  • Taylor & Francis Making Space for Bi Identities

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Space for Bi Identities

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    Book SynopsisHow do bi+ people navigate identity, gender, and relationships in a biphobic society? This book explores this question to show how to better include and incorporate bi+ people in research, policy, and the everyday.You can expect this book to explore how bi+ people experience the gender binary, healthcare, sex, flirting, media representation, and research. It soon becomes clear that bi+ people have different needs and experiences than heterosexual, lesbian, and gay people, and so need specific inclusion measures. Further, the research explores bi+ people's nuanced approaches to understanding gender, sexuality, sex, and flirting.This book will be of interest to anyone, whether bi+, a student, a researcher, a policymaker, or a health worker, looking to develop their understanding of bi+ identities and needs. It will also be of relevance to people interested in a broad range of topics, including sexuality, gender, feminism, trans and non binary identities, LGBTQ+Table of ContentsIntroduction: Finding the starting pointSection One: Living in a Hostile Society1. Bi+ Identities in Society2. Academic Interpretations of Bi+ Identities3. Bi+ Representation in Academic Scholarship4. Method to the MadnessSection Two: Bi+ Identities and LanguageSection Two Introduction5. Figuring It Out: Monosexist Internal Narratives6. Letting It Fly: Monosexism and Homophobia in Disclosure and Community7. Living Your Life: Navigating Monosexism and HomophobiaSection Two Conclusion: Bi+ People as Sexual RenegadesSection Three: Gender and SexualitySection Three Introduction8. Embodied Sexualities: Seeking Pleasure, Performing Desirability9. Following the Script, Doing the Dance: Expectations in Gendered RelationshipsSection Three Conclusion: Bi+ Overburdened Romantic PossibilitiesSection Four: Bi+ Identity, Embodiment, and GenderSection Four Introduction10. Twisting the Cistem: Cis People and Gender Performance11. Smashing the Cistem: Trans and Non Binary People and Gender Performance12. Bi+ Identities and Gender IdentitiesSection Four Conclusion: Bi+ People as Gender AmbivalentConclusion: Towards a Bi+ Future

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd HigherOrder Growth Curves and Mixture Modeling with Mplus

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Working with Time in Qualitative Research

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  • Taylor & Francis Building in Research and Evaluation Human inquiry for living systems

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Police Organization and Wellbeing

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    Book SynopsisBased on the study of a police organization in England, this book explores the role of social relations in the ways that people construct, mobilize, consume, and reconstruct meaning about wellbeing. Wellbeing is a powerful, institutionalized concept in police organizations across England and Wales. With the emergence of numerous policies, strategies, and practices that both explicitly and implicitly address wellbeing in the workplace, the concept has come to feature prominently. Wellbeing is addressed as an issue that needs to be understood intersubjectively by attending to the underlying social issues that shape how it is promoted or denied.After a theoretical exploration of police culture and wellbeing, the book traverses ethnographic data and captures insights from individuals across the organization's hierarchy. It explores what individuals perceive wellbeing to mean and how they make sense of the concept. The book reveals discernible ideological-laden tensions across the

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  • Taylor & Francis Researching Disability Sport

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis

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    Book SynopsisThis book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry.Underpinned by rigorous academic analysis using an evocative duo-ethnographic approach, the book explores the cultural and subcultural influences from childhood onwards both traumatic and resilience-building that have shaped their lives. Both authors reflect on strategies they learned early in life for dealing with challenges, each managing to function at a high level while avoiding awareness of their vulnerability. They reflect on the potential dangers of using their expertise and position of power in psychiatry simply to diagnose mental illness and prescribe medication. The differences and similarities in the authors' stories provide a productive tension highlighting the complexities of this paradigm shift that is happening in psychiaTrade ReviewA big takeaway from this book is the inequitable clash of world views when a person with lived experience of mental distress enters the sanctum of mainstream psychiatry. As a psychiatric registrar Patte Randal used her lived experience to foster connection, meaning and hope while many of her colleagues were steeped in psychiatric pessimism, biological reductionism, risk management and the use of force. Patte paid a heavy price but persisted for decades and triumphed with recovery affirming approaches that, unlike much of mainstream psychiatry, honour the etymology of her profession as ‘healers of the soul’.Mary O’Hagan: Former Mental Health Commissioner; Author ‘Madness Made Me’This book is remarkable for its scope, its honesty and directness. Dr. Randal’s life covers so many different perspectives on psychosis and extreme experiences. She has built on Laing’s recognition of finding meaning and the value of human contact for people with psychosis. Through her personal adventures and academic research she has inspired others, including her co-author and interviewer Dr. Stanton, and also built a teaching resource in this complex field. Dr.Stanton describes her own journey and helps link us to other positive developments in psychiatric therapy. If life is a "gigantic cosmic jig-saw puzzle" then this inspiring book may help you find solutions.Nick Argyle (MRCPsych; FRANZCP) Psychiatrist in Australasia working with refugees: Formerly Clinical Director Auckland District Health Board."This book contains the stories of two remarkable women doctors. Their courage and commitment to all they serve, and themselves, shines out of every page. I have been privileged to work alongside them both over many years and I have witnessed their dedication to challenging the traditional practice of psychiatry to be more humanistic and healing. I have learnt more from Patte than from any professional development I have ever attended. They have both walked the walk and have been punished for not submitting to the dominant discourse. Nevertheless, they have persisted and this book is a tribute to their determination and perseverance; as is 'The Gift Box', which I believe is a valuable resource for any service that is genuinely interested in promoting growth and self-development."Debbie Antcliff (FRANZCP) Retired Psychiatrist: Formerly Clinical Director Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre; Director of Area Mental Health Services Auckland District Health Board "Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis" provides readers with a unique perspective on paths to recovery. The authors bring out the knowledge and insight that come both from personal experience with psychosis and from professional careers as doctors working in psychiatry. Their exploration of psychosis and extreme states makes for an evocative read."Robert Whitaker author of Anatomy of an Epidemic'The beautiful story-telling stands out in this honest, rich and moving dual account of psychosis viewed from the inside and the outside. Written by two women doctors, trained in psychiatry, this unique evocative book provides a window into a deeply personal experience, and enriches the literature in this complex field.Patrick McGorry Executive Director Orygen Youth Health Research Centre and Professor of Youth Mental Health at University of Melbourne'In this lucidly written dual autobiography, two women, each of gifts and understanding, explore their personal experience of the conceptual fault line that runs through the theory and practice of psychiatry - the fault line dividing lived experience and objective clinical science, mind and soma, faith and scepticism, the numinous and the mundane, compassion and dispassion. They trace their stumbles along this line, their agonies, their triumphant successes and attendant dangers. I played a minor part in the saga of Patte - evidently not on the side of the angels - and recall the hard problems posed for her senior colleagues in doing her justice. I recommend this book to trainees and teachers in psychiatry. Let them read, and consider how they straddle the fault line.JJ Wright. Honorary Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland School of Medicine.This moving and thought-provoking book is built around the autobiographical accounts of two women doctors who trained as psychiatrists - Patte Randal and Josephine Stanton - and describes their journeys through the profession and as human beings navigating the vicissitudes, challenges, and traumas of life. Crucially, one of the women, Patte, has experienced psychosis herself and through that experience has come to see it as a spiritual emergency, a view that contrasts starkly with the medical reductionist approach of many of her colleagues in mainstream psychiatry. This perspective has enabled her to develop a more human and holistic way of approaching people who are experiencing a psychotic crisis. Readers will appreciate this book’s openness and honesty. It testifies to the importance of being with and learning from people who have lived experience of mental illness and offers an uplifting, positive vision of the way that psychiatry can be practiced in the future.’Richard P Bentall, Professor of Psychology; Author of ‘Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature‘ and ‘Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail’Table of ContentsPart 1 Becoming Ourselves: Patte’s Story (1951-1980, birth to 29); 1: Trust and Betrayal: The Divided Self; 2: Medical School – Skeletons, Cadavers, Gray’s Anatomy and Desensitisation; 3: An Extreme State and a Sense of Pathway; 4: Research and Metaphor: Medical Nemesis; 5: Completing Medical School – Examining Reflexes; Josephine’s Story (1954 – 1983, birth to 29); 6: Autonomy, Invulnerability, and a Commitment to Service; 7: Losing Sight of Science and Walking Away From Love; 8: Completing Medical School. Training to be Superhuman and Joining the Medical Club; Part 2 Becoming Doctors and Choosing Psychiatry: Patte’s Story 1980-1995 (ages 29-44); 9: The Pleasant Smell of Aftershave and the Imagined Relief of Not Existing; 10: Worse than a Nuclear Winter; 11: Trust Betrayed: Confronting the Devil; 12: Evolving from Atheism – A Spiritual Emergency; 13: Defining the Essence of Psychiatry; Josephine’s Story 1985-1995 (ages 31 to 41); 14: After Africa – Rekindling Passion for Medicine and Love; 15: Feeling Lost in Psychiatry and Found in Mothering; 16: Beginning to Find my Place in Psychiatry; 17: Jumping Through Hoops and Becoming a Patient; Part 3 Learning from Experience: Patte’s Story 1996 to 2020 (ages 45-69); 18: A Herculean Task – ‘Hope and a Future’; 19: Something Wrong on the Inside – The Paradox; 20: Finding my Voice … And Losing It Again; 21: Side Effects, Spirituality, and Finding My Niche; 22: Disruption in Meaning-Making: The Last Extreme State; 23: Lighting a Candle for Justice; 24: Ways of Making Sense; 25: The Re-covery Model; 26: Living the Experience of Now – My Life Beyond Psychiatry; Josephine’s Story 1998 to present day (ages 44-65); 27: Becoming a Psychiatrist – A Pathway of Impossible Jobs; 28: My Alternative Training – Pathway to Becoming the Psychiatrist I want to be; 29: Against All Odds: Maintaining My Personal and Professional Identity; Patte’s Story; 30: Creative Energy and ‘The Gift Box’; Epilogue: It’s About Time.

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