As a mental health professional who struggles to practice within a culture and mental health services in which the dominant discourses revolve around the medical model, it is immensely refreshing to read a range of voices from across several professional disciplines (e.g. philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, history and literature) that are keen to understand mental distress in a different and more holistic way. Actually, it is refreshing, simply, to read of an attempt to create spaces to think and 'reflect in an atmosphere of genuine enquiry and dialogue' (Morgan p1). This commitment to thinking and dialogue in a spirit of openness and exploration made a significant impact on me. Rachel Freeth, Psychiatrist, Ipnosis No 33, 2008.