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Closing Thoughts: The Power of Narrative
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents a commentary from the editor on the key issues found in these contributions and in providing my own personal perspective on the value of disclosure of mental ...
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Memories of Parental Decompensation
Theodore P. Beauchaine
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 8 describes the contributor’s his childhood, in which he, his twin sister, and their older brother coped with their mother’s descent into chronic schizophrenia. ...
Weeping Mother
Jarralynne Agee
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 9 explores the depression of the contributor’s mother, the poverty in which the family found itself for many years, and the impact of these early experiences on the contributor’s ...
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My Story Is One of Loss
Laura B. Mason
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 1 describes the disintegration of the contributor’s family in the wake of the forms of mental illness displayed, in turn, by each of her three older sisters. ...
In My Voice: Speaking Out About Mental Health and Stigma
Jeffrey Liew
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 5 explores the struggles of the contributor’s family as immigrants, compounded by his mother’s increasingly severe depression, and the stigma they encountered in their neighbourhood. ...
He Just Can’t Help It: My Struggle With My Father’s Struggle With Bipolar Disorder
Esme A. Londahl-Shaller
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 12 documents the life of the contributor’s father, which includes history of psychiatric treatments and hospitalizations, an unorthodox style, a propensity for “too much” in the way ...
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The Legacy of Loss: Depression As a Family Affair
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 14 presents a multigenerational account of the contributor’s family, featuring her mother’s descent into severe, agitated depression and her father’s drinking and poor coping. In ...
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Performing Human
Janet Lucas
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 13 explores the dilemmas experienced by victims of severe abuse in “closed” family systems, and provides a portrayal of the kinds of violence and neglect the contributor experienced ...
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Introduction
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents an introduction to this title as a whole. It discusses the approach that the title takes, and highlights the core themes that the individual narrative chapters ...
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Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Stephen P. Hinshaw (ed.)
In this title, mental health professionals and scientists, ranging from newly trained individuals to seasoned clinicians and researchers, tell their own and their families’ stories of ...
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Reverberations
Peter E. Nathan
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 11 explores the death of the contributor’s mother from suicide when the contributor was 1 year old. It discusses depression that had permeated his mother’s life, as well as a ...
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Finding My Mind
Ruth C. White
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 2 explores the confusion, denial, and terror accompanying the realization that the contributor’s life’s predominant style—brilliance, lightning-quick turnaround of ideas and ...
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A Field Agent in Our Midst
Tara S. Peris
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 3 recounts the deterioration of the contributor’s mother from the time that the contributor was young until her early teen years, at which time her mother departed suddenly for ...
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Laura’s Story: Making Sense of and Deriving Meaning From Her Life With Mental Illness
Elizabeth B. Owens
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 4 discusses the experiences and eventual death of the contributor’s sister from years of substance and alcohol abuse, eating disorder, and depression. ...
Columbus Day, 1994: A New World
Kay S. Browne
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 6 discusses the contributor’s medical, psychiatric, and pediatric training, which left her unprepared for the events, several decades later, of her 19-year-old son’s psychosis and ...
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The Meaning of Mental Health (and Other Lessons Learned)
Marc S. Atkins
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 7 explores the contributor’s difficult experiences in college, including auditory hallucination while on his small-college campus during the turbulent era of Vietnam War protests. ...
The Game With No Rules: A Sibling Confronts Mental Illness
Jessica L. Borelli
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 10 documents the contributor’s brothers’ chronic struggles with extreme acting-out behavior, shutdown moods, and a range of psychiatric diagnoses (including severe ADHD/ODD, and ...
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