What is it about?

This is a collection of autoethnographic accounts that explore and capture the experience of nursing staff and patients who have lived and worked in the field of mental disorder

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Why is it important?

The decision to use an autoethnographic research method is informed by several factors, including the wealth of knowledge of the authors, the limited number of such accounts, the inherent humanity of the subject matter, and the inevitable and unstoppable impact of the lived reality of mental illness in society. There are also fewer mental health nurses who were trained in the era of the ‘asylum attendant’. The editors felt that it was important to record some of the essence of this.

Perspectives

I hope that this autoethnographic account explains how my study of positive psychology highlights the rationale for developing and applying it further in the field of mental health nursing. There are still clear gaps in academic knowledge, and I hope this account might motivate others to take up the baton and continue to actively start their journey in improving the world further.

Mrs Jan Macfarlane
University of Bolton

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This page is a summary of: Autoethnography and mental health nursing, British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, November 2022, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjmh.2022.0035.
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