The Trainers:
Sybil Ah-mane
Sybil is a highly accomplished documentary film maker specialising in the area of mental health issues.
She trained as a psychiatric nurse and continues to work in the field.
I had been training as a psychiatric nurse for two and a half years when I had my first hospital admission. I was placed on a section and was forced to stay there for two and a half months.
The following year I was admitted, again for two and a half months, but on this occasion I was placed on section three of the mental health act and diagnosed as manic-depressive.
Two years later I studied for a degree in Cultural studies where I produced an eight minute video on the subject of mental health. The project gave me the opportunity to talk about my experiences with people that could empathise.
I found the process of film making to be therapeutic and refreshing. It was at this point that the idea of Learning From Psychosis was brought to light.
Jan and I realised that we could use our experiences in a positive way by sharing our knowledge with others working in the field.
Since then I have completed an MA course in television documentary film making and produced and directed a fifteen minute film entitled 'Four Other Stories' which now forms part of the training package.
I have continued to work for Tulip mental health group as a project worker through-out my studies.
[
Sign the Learning from Psychosis guestbook / notice
board ] - [ Read
the L.F.P. guestbook ]
[ GuestBook by TheGuestBook.com ]
