A License to Be Crazy

The author’s multivoiced perspectives as mother, holistic practitioner, therapist, and social justice activist will address and question some of her and others’ assumptions, beliefs, mistakes, and social constructions around madness. Rather than coming to a conclusive “answer” to the question “What...

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Main Author: Putnam, L. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Inc. 2019
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Summary:The author’s multivoiced perspectives as mother, holistic practitioner, therapist, and social justice activist will address and question some of her and others’ assumptions, beliefs, mistakes, and social constructions around madness. Rather than coming to a conclusive “answer” to the question “What is psychosis if it is not what the bio medical model of psychiatry says it is,” the author cautiously offers her gleanings and queries. These few bare questionable and questioning bones rattle to tell more of their story. © The Author(s) 2018.
ISBN:00221678 (ISSN)
DOI:10.1177/0022167818773914