Description
Personally Speaking Book
Personally Speaking is unique collection of personal stories from past and present leaders in Psychiatry. It invites readers to join them in contemplating what may be learned from difficult experiences in our lives and consider how this relates to our growth and maturation as people, and practitioners.
It arose from concern that our medical culture has often failed to emphasise the value of integrating our personal and professional experience, resulting in us living as divided selves. It acknowledges that learning to value and share personal experience needs care and skill but holds great potential to support more integrated and relational ways of training, learning and living.
The heart and soul of psychiatry are intimately concerned with the human endeavour to connect with and care for people in profound states of mental distress. At its best, psychiatry is based upon the offer of a respectful, compassionate and understanding relationship, in support of personal recovery.
To achieve this, Psychiatrists, in fact all doctors and healthcare workers, need safe opportunities to cultivate core human qualities such as care, kindness and compassion alongside a skilled application of theory and treatments, both are needed.
These intimate personal stories offer companionable support for re-visioning, rebalancing and, (re) humanising medical awareness through learning to value vulnerability, for the benefit of patients, services and practitioners alike.
‘Personally speaking’ is a warm invitation for you to join us in contemplating our lives and taking time to reflect upon the relationship between your life, experience, development and work.
Key messages
- Personal stories from leading psychiatrists illustrate how practitioners and patients are intimately connected by bonds of common humanity – ‘we are more alike than different’.
- The capacity of healthcare practitioners to offer person-centred care may depend as much as, or possibly more on their personal qualities than professional qualifications
- Personal and professional maturity are closely interwoven and arise from learning to value our vulnerability and integrate personal experience with professional training in support of compassion and relational care.
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Philip S –
Warm, respectful, and quietly powerful. It offers a rare look at what it means to care for people in distress, without being heavy or clinical. I’d recommend it to anyone who works with people.
Colin P –
I bought it out of curiosity and ended up highlighting pages. It’s a great mix of professional insight and real life experience, and it made me reflect on how I listen to others.
Susan R –
This book reminds you that mental health care is about people first. The stories are honest, compassionate, and easy to connect with, even if you are not from a medical background.
Emily Q –
A genuinely moving read. It’s thoughtful, human, and full of real moments that stay with you. I finished it feeling calmer and more understanding, both of myself and other people.