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I walked through the garden alone,While the dew was still on the rosesAnd the voice I hear, falling on my ear,The son of God discloses.And he walks with me,And he talks with me,And he tells me I am his own,And the joys we share, as we tarry there,None other has ever, known.
This issue revisits madness from a 360-degree perspective, considering the epistemic and hermeneutic implications for the understanding and care of psychotic individuals with first-person, “lived experience” in mind. What might it look like if we moved, in Gail Hornstein’s formulation, beyond merely dialectical consideration of first-person accounts – where patient testimony is considered only in terms of how it comports with psychoanalytic or phenomenological theories – to a more open, egalitarian dialogue?