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Madness made me : a memoir / Mary O'Hagan.

by O'Hagan, Mary (Mary Ann)

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O'Hagan, Mary (Mary Ann) -- Mental health.

Mentally ill -- New Zealand -- Biography.

Mental illness -- Treatment -- Evaluation.

Psychiatry -- Evaluation.

9780473279806 (pbk.)

262 pages ; 23 cm.

Subtitle from cover.

Becoming me -- The black box -- The spinning kaleidoscope -- A wound under siege -- The zooming turbojet -- Making friends with madness -- Rising from the ashes -- Psychiatric survivors -- The Soweto of the insane -- Global madness -- The unfinished revolution.

After her journey through madness Mary O'Hagan realized the mental health system and society did more harm than good. A myth-busting account of madness and our customary responses to madness through the lens of lived experience. The author's message is that madness is a profoundly disruptive but full human experience. Most people don't see it that way, from the experts who make up clever theories about brain disease, to the people down the road who have irrational fears about mad axe-murderers. A compelling book that uncovers widespread injustice, and ends with hope that people with mental distress will be treated with respect and humanity. New Zealander Mary O'Hagan is the developer of PeerZone - peer led workshops in mental health and addiction.

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