Majse Lind

This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be a?ected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying, or practicing in mental health professions will ?nd a wealth of humanizing ?rst-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will ?nd a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving toward intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.

This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be a?ected by mental illness while also being a resource for personal recovery. Those researching, studying, or practicing in mental health professions will ?nd a wealth of humanizing ?rst-person perspectives on mental illness that foster perspective-taking and aid patient-centered treatment and study. Researchers of narrative psychology will ?nd a unique set of life stories synthesized with existing literature on identity and recovery. Moving toward intervention, the authors include a 'guide for narrative repair' with the aim of healing narrative identity damage and fostering growth of adaptive narrative identity.

Denne bog handler om kommunikation med omtanke og bevidst nærvær og henvender sig til studerende på professionsuddannelser, der uddanner sig til at arbejde i menneskeorienterede organisationer. Målet med bogen er at klæde de studerende på, så de i deres praktik og videre arbejde kan påtage sig det ansvar, der følger med rollen som professionel samtalepartner. Socialarbejdere arbejder i forskellige organisationer med forskellige målsætninger. Derfor er bogens kapitler og teoretiske perspektiver forskellige. Man kan sige, at bogen er en buket af bud på, hvilke overvejelser man som professionel må gøre sig i mødet med borgeren. I den første del af bogen er fokus rettet imod forskellige samtalepraksisser, fx digitale professionelle samtaler, narrative samtaler og livshistorier. Det vises også i et kapitel om samarbejdet med borgeren, hvordan der kan arbejdes med menneskers forskelligheder, når målet er det gode liv. I sidste del vises det bl.a. ved hjælp af forskellige cases, hvilken rolle anerkendelse, projektion og empati spiller i den professionelle samtale.