Chapter 1. Introduction
Robert Hurst, Heather Harrison, Andrew Voyce and Jerome Carson
Chapter 2. Recovery Journeys in Mental Health
Jerome Carson
Chapter 3. CHIME
Robert Hurst
Chapter 4. Creativity and Recovery
Robert Hurst
Chapter 5. What Has Brought Us Here?
Robert Hurst, Andrew Voyce and Jerome Carson
Chapter 6. StoryTeller: Jo Mullen
Jo Mullen and Robert Hurst
Chapter 7. StoryTeller: Michelle McNary
Michelle McNary and Robert Hurst
Chapter 8. StoryTeller: Peter Bullimore
Peter Bullimore and Robert Hurst
Chapter 9. StoryTeller: ANON
ANON and Robert Hurst
Chapter 10. StoryTeller: Anna Sexton
Anna Sexton and Robert Hurst
Chapter 11. Andrews Story
Andrew Voyce
Chapter 12. A New Model of Creativity In Recovery and C-CHIME
Robert Hurst
Chapter 13. Conclusions
Robert Hurst, Andrew Voyce and Jerome Carson
This book presents the importance of the role of creativity, particularly everyday creativity, in the lives of people on a mental health recovery journey.?
This fascinating text achieves its intention of providing an accessible and informed perspective on the relationship between creativity and mental health recovery. The content is evocative and challenging and seeks to arouse the reader to explore their own relationship with creativity, whilst enabling the storytellers narrative to explore how creativity has influenced their recovery. The authors mutual respect for one anothers lived experience is evident and provides a unique perspective.
--Annette Feakes, Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton