Marjorie Lloyd is interested in survivor stories of people who have experienced mental illness and their careers. On Worldwide Story Work, she writes:
My research is on how to involve people more in their mental health care and consequent empowerment. There are few survivor stories in mental health, and so I keep finding myself drawn toward survivors of the holocaust and the slave trade, which leads me into the anti-psychiatry arena. However, my aim is to discover in these stories what keeps people going in the face of uncertainty and adversity rather than the horrors that they have experienced. I am familiar with Arthur Kleinman’s Illness Narratives, Georgina Wakefield and Arthur Frank’s work, but would appreciate any help in finding more survivor stories to support my narrative on service-user involvement.
I will add contact info for Marjorie when I have it. In the meantime, e-mail me if you’re interested in contributing.