Description
Book SynopsisThis book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families. By broadly drawing on salutary possibilities, it brings evidence of existing and emerging approaches to resolve mental distress.
The unique volume brings several practices and testimonies together that can support peopleâs healing and recovery, focusing on the following key interventions:
- Different ways of looking at emotional suffering beyond psy-knowledge, which many doctors, social workers, disability scholars, legal or policy experts and psy-professionals advocate for
- The role of expressive arts employed by both professionals and peers
- Efficacy of peer engagement of a professional nature in India, the newest globally emerging phenomenon, often heralded as the future of mental health worldwide
Deftly interwoven with patient and peer narratives in jargo
