Companions on a Journey: An exploration of an alternative community mental health project
This journal describes the work of a group of people centred around the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide has been creating an alternative Community Mental Health Project in an attempt to meet more adequately the needs of people with psychiatric diagnoses who are considered 'chronically' and mentally ill. This edition describes this project, not in the sense of offering solutions or prescriptive ways of working, but in order to share experiences and learnings. Within the project, people who experience 'voices and visions' (often referred to as the auditory and visual hallucinations of schizophrenia) work together with community support workers to expose the tactics and effects of these 'voices and visions'; to honour and build upon individuals' knowledges and skills; to create ever-widening communities of reflection and support; and to question collaboratively the dominant ways of understanding and living in this culture. 'Companions on a Journey' describes ways of working in solidarity and partnership on issues of mental health that are enriching, challenging and fulfilling for all who are involved.
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