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Stopovers on my way home from Mars
A journey into the psychiatric survivor movement in the USA, Britain and the Netherlands.
"My madness took me places I had never been. One dark night the long polished corridor turned into a glowing ramp and the ladies' dormitory at the end of it became my private spaceship bound for Mars.
Mars was incomprehensible. No-one else had seen it through my telescope. There were no maps or signposts there. No one else was with me to point the way. So I turned back..."
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From taking snapshots to making movies
This paper is about my search for the communication of human experience. It describes my mistaken attempt at conventional ‘snapshot’ research into the experience of psychiatric survivors.
It then features an alternative consciousness - challenging and action ‘movie’ proposal featuring the actors in mental illness system and directed by survivors.
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From the boarding house to the boardroom
A conversation with New Zealand’s first Consumer Advisors 1990
This interview took place late in 1990, several months after the Central District Manager of the Auckland Area Health Board funded the employment of two half time consumer advisors, through Psychiatrict Survivors – a central Auckland peer support and advocacy organisation.
The consumer advisors were employed and supervised by Psychiatric Survivors and provided advice and advocacy on behalf of consumers in central Auckland to the Area Health Board.
They were the first consumers in New Zealand to be employed or funded by the statutory mental health services to provide advice or advocacy to management.
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Other downloads
Recovery Competencies, 2001:
Destination Recovery
Recovery Series – stories (4), 2000:
Recovery Maori.pdf
Recovery Family.pdf
Recovery Pasific.pdf
Recovery Forensic.pdf
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