Sommer R, Clifford J S, Norcross J C
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis 95616-8686, USA.
Am J Psychiatry. 1998 Sep;155(9):1261-4. doi: 10.1176/ajp.155.9.1261.
This article brings to the present earlier bibliographies of books written by former mental patients. These books provide an inside view of mental disorder that can be useful in teaching, public education, theory, and research, and they have played a catalyzing role in mental health reform and in theory development.
The authors list seven anthologies and 48 autobiographies of former patients published since 1980 and introduce a classification system intended to increase the research value of this important archive.
Recent books of this genre show more individuals with a mood disorder and more therapists and more women as authors.
The research potential of these books suggests the value of an electronic database for classifying and retrieving the information they contain.
本文介绍了早期由曾经的精神病患者撰写的书籍书目。这些书籍提供了对精神障碍的内部视角,在教学、公众教育、理论和研究方面可能有用,并且它们在心理健康改革和理论发展中发挥了催化作用。
作者列出了自1980年以来出版的七本选集和48本曾经患者的自传,并引入了一个分类系统,旨在提高这一重要档案的研究价值。
这类近期书籍显示出更多患有情绪障碍的个体、更多治疗师以及更多女性作为作者。
这些书籍的研究潜力表明建立一个电子数据库来分类和检索其中所含信息的价值。