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Escape to Reality; Five Life Stories ... of Mental Illness and Real Recovery

by Dave Allen Lambert et al
£6.99   paperback  Norwich Mind (2004)

Escape to Reality; Five Life Stories ... of Mental Illness and Real Recovery by Dave Allen Lambert et al Five life stories from people who share experience mental illness and real recovery. The text has been written by author David Allen Lambert with the help & co-operation of Norwich Mind Resource Centre members and staff. A keen sense of narrative renders these five accounts into collaborative life stories - the details revealed are entirely sourced from the lives of each separate person and are told in the words of the individuals themselves.
 
Three long-term members of the Resource Centre open these five biographical reflections: Tony's bullied survival surrendering to care, Annie's journey from painful loss to living free, and Cecil Lawrence Symond's release from an unexpected life sentence. Nell Calvert, a Resource Centre member of staff, then reveals her fight to win back what was stolen in a game with very high stakes. The author himself rounds off the texts with a tale of love lost and self won. Their collective emotional bravery, as they dare to be real, bears witness to hope.

ISBN 13: 9780954741709 | ISBN 10: 0954741706