Stephen Madigan's paper highlights his relational interview meetings with 'Tom’, professional practices of the in patient psychiatric ward, expert knowledge, the notion of chronic identities, disciplinary discourse, and his fascination with developing therapeutic letter writing campaigns inside the psychiatric institution.
This VSNT paper by Stephen Madigan looks at the relationship between the relational ideas of narrative theory and practices when engaging with persons living on psychiatric wards who professionals have named with destabilizing chronic identities.
The paper brings together the relational politic of narrative theory and practice considerations when working with persons living on psychiatric wards who have been professionally named and captured within destabilizing chronic identities. The paper features an example of therapeutic letter writing campaigns.