Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis: Reflections on Trauma, Use

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Part 1 Becoming Ourselves: Patte¿s Story (1951-1980, birth to 29); 1: Trust and Betrayal: The Divided Self; 2: Medical School ¿ Skeletons, Cadavers, Gray¿s Anatomy and Desensitisation; 3: An Extreme State and a Sense of Pathway; 4: Research and Metaphor: Medical Nemesis; 5: Completing Medical School ¿ Examining Reflexes; Josephine¿s Story (1954 ¿ 1983, birth to 29); 6: Autonomy, Invulnerability, and a Commitment to Service; 7: Losing Sight of Science and Walking Away From Love; 8: Completing Medical School. Training to be Superhuman and Joining the Medical Club; Part 2 Becoming Doctors and Choosing Psychiatry: Patte¿s Story 1980-1995 (ages 29-44); 9: The Pleasant Smell of Aftershave and the Imagined Relief of Not Existing; 10: Worse than a Nuclear Winter; 11: Trust Betrayed: Confronting the Devil; 12: Evolving from Atheism ¿ A Spiritual Emergency; 13: Defining the Essence of Psychiatry; Josephine¿s Story 1985-1995 (ages 31 to 41); 14: After Africa ¿ Rekindling Passion for Medicine and Love; 15: Feeling Lost in Psychiatry and Found in Mothering; 16: Beginning to Find my Place in Psychiatry; 17: Jumping Through Hoops and Becoming a Patient; Part 3 Learning from Experience: Patte¿s Story 1996 to 2020 (ages 45-69); 18: A Herculean Task ¿ `Hope and a Future¿; 19: Something Wrong on the Inside ¿ The Paradox; 20: Finding my Voice ¿ And Losing It Again; 21: Side Effects, Spirituality, and Finding My Niche; 22: Disruption in Meaning-Making: The Last Extreme State; 23: Lighting a Candle for Justice; 24: Ways of Making Sense; 25: The Re-covery Model; 26: Living the Experience of Now ¿ My Life Beyond Psychiatry; Josephine¿s Story 1998 to present day (ages 44-65); 27: Becoming a Psychiatrist ¿ A Pathway of Impossible Jobs; 28: My Alternative Training ¿ Pathway to Becoming the Psychiatrist I want to be; 29: Against All Odds: Maintaining My Personal and Professional Identity; Patte¿s Story; 30: Creative Energy and `The Gift Box¿; Epilogue: It¿s About Time.