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This book showcases and celebrates the writings of Peter Campbell, an activist, writer, educator, and a veteran survivor of the mental health system, conveying the variety and vitality of Campbell's accomplishments across the years from 1967 to 2022.
List of contents
Part 1: IN AND OUT THE BIN, 1967-85 1.00a Introduction 1.00b '
IN & OUT THE BIN' (1983-85): synopsis. 1.1. 'First Taste' 1.2 'Cambridge -The Golden Land' 1.3 'Breakdowns and Shakedowns' 1.4 'Life on the Inside' 1.5 'Therapeutica -Chinks in the Armour' 1.6 'Drugs: The Many-Headed Guard Dog'
PART 2: HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER, 1983-2000 2.00 Introduction 2.01 Letters to
Open Mind magazine (1983-85) 2.02 '
We're Not Mad, We're Angry' (1986) 2.03 'Bleak Reading on Judgement Day' (1986) 2.04 Cartoons by Niall, 'Melvin Menz' 2.05 '
Madness Café' [abridged] 2.06 '
Nutter's Diary' [2 sections, abridged] 2.07 '
Hotel Galactica' [abridged] 2.08 'Typing Error' (c 1986) 2.09 'Losing & Regaining Control' (1986) 2.10 'Self-advocacy: Working Together for Change' (1990) 2.11 'The Needs of people in crisis' (1990) 2.12 'Spiritual crisis' (1993) 2.13 'The Last Communication' (1993) 2.14 'Valuing Psychosis: A Personal View' (1994) 2.15 'Service-user's perspective on the care prog approach' (1995) 2.16 'Through the Revolving Door' (1999) 2.17 'Back to Cambridge' (
Testimony 2000) 2.18 'The Experience of Seclusion' (
Testimony 2000) 2.19 'Being on Section' (
Testimony 2000) 2.20 'At the Richmond Fellowship' (
Testimony 2000) 2.21 'Alternative Therapies' (
Testimony 2000) 2.22 'Working with Children' (
Testimony 2000)
PART 3: A QUEST FOR LIBERATION, 2000-2022 3.00 Introduction 3.01 'Coming Out of the Closet'(
Testimony 2000) 3.02 'Control in the community' (2000) 3.03 'Surviving Social Inclusion' (c 2000) 3.04 'Discharged' (
Testimony 2000) 3.05. 'A Barren Experience' (a crisis admission) by 'Niall' (2001) 3.06 'It's Not the Real You' (2001) 3.07. 'An Outline History of Mental Health Advocacy' (2004) 3.08
Testimony interview (2005): Napsbury 3.09
Testimony interview (2005): experience of ECT 3.10.
Testimony interview (2005): experience of psychiatric medication 3.11. 'The Survivor Movement in the 1980s' (2006) 3.12. 'Seclusion: The Bigger Picture' (2007) 3.13. Personal account of seclusion (n/d) 3.14. 'People with Mental Health Problems Don't Know What is Good for Them' (n/d) 3.15. 'Speaking for Ourselves' (2022)
Part 4: BIG RED AND AFTERWORDS 4.00 BIG RED Afterwords 4.01 The Editors 4.02. Sarah Carr 4.03. Colin King 4.04 Acknowledgements 4.05 Resources 4.06 Index
About the author
Peter Barham is a psychologist and historian of mental health. He has been working, writing, and engaging critically, in the mental health field for more than fifty years.
Peter Beresford OBE is Visiting Professor at the University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national disabled people's and service users' organization and network.
Ker Wallwork is the project archivist for the Peter Campbell Legacy Project, hosted by the Bishopsgate Institute, where Peter Campbell's extensive archives compiled over more than four decades have been donated.
