When madness is intolerable for sufferers, how do professional carers remain sane? This book explores the effects of the psychotic patient's suffering on carers and the culture of psychiatric services. Suffering Insanity is arranged as three essays that delve into the complexities of psychiatric care and the challenges faced by both patients and caregivers.
Key Features
- Staff Stress in Psychiatric Services: Examines the personal resilience required from carers amidst the impact of madness.
- Nature of Psychosis: Provides a systematic review of the psychotic experience that patients attempt to evade while carers confront daily.
- Impact on Psychiatric Services: Discusses how the configuration of services can lead to harmful effects on care provision.
- Holistic Care Perspective: Argues for a systemic understanding of care that includes both staff and patients.
Additional Information
Suffering Insanity makes a powerful argument for considering care in the psychiatric services as a whole system that includes staff as well as patients; all need attention and understanding in order to deliver care in as humane a way as possible. All those working in the psychiatric services, both in large and small agencies and institutions, will appreciate that closer examination of the actual psychology and interrelations of staff, as well as patients, is essential and urgent.
