In the chapters that follow, you will find 14 narrative journeys, written by students, clinicians, teachers, and scientists from the mental health professions, broadly construed. The subject matter of each chapter is the author’s family or personal experience of mental illness. You must, of course, judge for yourself, but my guess is that you will have a wide range of emotional responses when reading these contributions. You will hear, for example, about the suicide of a psychologist’s mother when he was still an infant, along with the reverberations of that act over the ensuing decades
