Soteria Network Titles
This page includes titles of interest to those within the Soteria Network. You may also be interested in our range of titles published by ‘The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis’ which are all sold at 20% off the retail price and can be found here: ISPS book series
A Straight Talking Introduction to Emotional Wellbeing
Our Price: $26.27 (with free UK delivery)
This book is a revised and retitled second edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Being a Mental Health Service User (2010). This updated second edition offers a cohesive basis for collective change to the individualising and medicalising of ‘mental health’.
They Died Waiting: The Crisis in Mental Health – Stories of Loss and Stories of Hope
Our Price: $38.90 (with free UK delivery)
This stunningly beautiful book is a collection of lived experience accounts, by bereaved relatives, service-users, carers, practitioners, and activists. Each chapter begins with a colour plate of a memorial heart made by the contributors. They Died Waiting speaks into a void and makes a valuable contribution to health and social care knowledge. It shines a light on some whispered lives, whispered deaths, and whispered organisational behaviours.
They Died Waiting will appeal to anyone interested in mental health or bereavement. Within the contributor’s chapters, They Died Waiting exposes insensitive and unsafe practice, the brutal processes that bereaved relatives experience, and the empty ‘lessons learnt’ rhetoric. Nevertheless, the narratives are bursting with integrity, values, compassion, love, and hope.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis (2nd Edition)
Our Price: $23.33 (with free UK delivery)
This book is about choice. It is about demystifying one of the most influential myths of our age and giving people the information to make up their own minds. It opens up hope and new ways forward for anyone who has been given a diagnostic label.
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Heavy Light
Our Price: $19.44 (with free UK delivery)
Partly a tribute to those who looked after Horatio, from family and friends to strangers and professionals, and partly an investigation into how we understand and treat acute crises of mental health, Heavy Light’s beauty, power and compassion illuminate a fundamental part of human experience. It asks urgent questions about mental health that affect each and every one of us.
A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs: The truth about how they work and how to come off them
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In an era when more people are taking psychiatric drugs than ever before, Joanna Moncrieff’s explosive book challenges the claims for their mythical powers.
He Died Waiting: Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services
Our Price: $44.74 (with free UK delivery)
Caroline’s eldest son, Tim, had bipolar disorder. The mental health services he encountered were chaotic, inaccessible, and unsafe. Tim never seemed to be the right kind of ill to get the help he needed. Like many other people with mental illness, he joined an endless waiting list. He died waiting for an appointment.
A Straight Talking Introduction To The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative To Psychiatric Diagnosis
Our Price: $27.22 (with free UK delivery)
The PTMF offers all of us the tools to create new, hopeful narratives about the reasons for our distress that are not based on psychiatric diagnosis and to find ways forward as individuals, families, social groups and whole societies.
The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self
Our Price: $31.12 (with free UK delivery)
This workbook is a step-by-step guide to CFT, in which the chapters build your understanding of yourself, the skills that give rise to a compassionate mind, and ways to work with whatever difficulties you’re struggling with in life. The exercises, prompts and case stories in this book provide an understandable and practical way to develop compassion.
Art Therapy for Psychosis
Our Price: $41.82 (with free UK delivery)
Art Therapy for Psychosis presents innovative theoretical and clinical approaches to psychosis that have developed in the work of expert clinicians from around the world. It draws on insights that have emerged from decades of clinical practice to explain why and how specialised forms of art therapy constitute a particularly appropriate psychotherapeutic approach to psychosis.
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Our Price: $21.39 (with free UK delivery)
The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma – which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.
Lifesaving Poems
Our Price: $21.39 (with free UK delivery)
Inspired by a remark of Seamus Heaney, Lifesaving Poems began life as notebook, then a blog. How many poems, Heaney wondered, was it possible to recall responding to, over a lifetime? Was it ten, he asked, twenty, fifty, a hundred, or more?
Lifesaving Poems is a way of trying to answer that question.
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis: Working with the Hard to Reach
Our Price: $73.93 (with free UK delivery)
Innovations in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis positions psychological formulation as a key organising principle for the delivery of care within multidisciplinary teams. The interventions described all have the common theme of supporting recovery and achieving goals that are of primary importance to the service user which targets interventions on broader obstacles to recovery.
Psychiatry in Context: Experience, Meaning & Communities
Our Price: $46.68 (with free UK delivery)
This book examines the central role of contexts in understanding psychosis and distress. The contexts in which we all exist, historical, cultural, social, political, economic and interpersonal, shape and give meaning to our lives for good or for bad.
Cracked: Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good
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Controversial, powerful and shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry.
Young People Hearing Voices: What You Need to Know and What You Can Do
Our Price: $36.95 (with free UK delivery)
Young People Hearing Voices is a unique, innovative book providing support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices.
Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Psychosis (2nd Edition)
Our Price: $66.92 (with free UK delivery)
It brings together thirty-seven contributors from ten countries and a wide range of scientific disciplines. It provides an evidence-based, optimistic antidote to the pessimism of biological psychiatry. Models of Madness will be essential reading for all involved in mental health, including service users, family members, service managers, policy makers, nurses, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychoanalysts, social workers, occupational therapists, art therapists.
Madness Contested, power and practice
Our Price: $42.79 (with free UK delivery)
Jacqui Dillon co-wrote a chapter in this book entitled ‘Recovery, Discovery and Revolution: The work of intervoice and the hearing voices movement’. The book as a whole contests how both society and Mental Health Services conceptualise and respond to madness.
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
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Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix “chemical imbalances” in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startled—and dismayed—to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.
Psychology In The Real World: Community- Based Groupwork
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“Psychology in the Real World” describes groups, courses and projects that psychologist Guy Holmes has been involved in over the past decade.
The Compassionate Mind
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Professor Paul Gilbert explores how our minds have developed to be highly sensitive and quick to react to perceived threats and how this fast-acting threat-response system can be a source of anxiety, depression and aggression.
Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery
Our Price: $42.79 (with free UK delivery)
This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life.
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
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Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow.
This is Madness Too: A critical look at psychiatry and the future of mental health services
Our Price: $28.22 (with free UK delivery)
This is Madness examines the past, present and possible future of the British mental health system. In this volume, users of services, professionals and academics come together to explore the roles and practices of the mental health service, its place within society and the experiences of those in the system.
This Is Madness: A Critical Look At Psychiatry And The Future Of Mental Health Services
Our Price: $32.11 (with free UK delivery)
A comprehensive critique of the contemporary British psychiatric system, This is Madness is a breath of fresh air. In turn critical, strident, scholarly, personal, moving and ultimately hopeful, it brings together the views of professionals and users. It is an attempt to develop a more effective, respectful and humane mental health system.