My Mother's Skull Is Burning: A Story of Stories. (November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sørly, Rita; Karlsson, Bengt; Grant, Alec
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 25:Number 9/10(2019)
• Page Start: 1011
• Page End: 1021
• Publication Date: 2019-11
• Subjects: autoethnography -- ethnographies -- methodologies -- qualitative health research -- qualitative research -- narrative -- writing as method of inquiry; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800418787547
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Performing autoethnography is a dynamic and dialogic exercise, transgressing and exceeding traditional expectations of academic papers. In this freely spoken piece—of narratives, thoughts, poems, and reflections—you will meet three international mental health scholar-researchers seeking and deepening connection through friendship. The article began as a single story and developed, as stories often do, to become many stories. It is conversational, shifting discursively across many topics, including diagnosis, medication, mental health demedicalization and recovery, cultural colonization, language, narrative and human abuse, identity, human connection, being outside the academic mainstream, ethnicity, time, and transitions. It is a story of telling stories.