Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies

This edited collection introduces and explores radical alternatives to mainstream psychiatric practices that build on the knowledge of people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric treatment. Crucially, these are not alternatives developed by professionals; they are innovative, survivor-led and survivor-run grassroots approaches. The contributors describe their origins, how they were developed, the challenges they faced, and continue to face, and the politics that inspired and continue to inform them. This is an international showcase of pioneering practice for radical thinkers, mad activists, mad researchers and mad experts.