Book
Androids DO Dream
Patient, Staff, Researcher
This book is a curated narrative drawn from spoken material originally shared as podcasts and videos, reshaped to follow how understanding changes across time and position.
“The aim is not completeness, but intelligibility.”
What this book is about
Androids DO Dream moves across three positions within the same mental health system: being detained and treated, later working on wards as staff, and eventually analysing care through research.
Rather than presenting a complete archive, the book prioritises clarity, hindsight, and ethical restraint—holding experience, practice, and analysis in the same frame.
Who this book is for (and not for)
- Readers interested in mental health systems from the inside
- Clinicians and students seeking reflective rather than clinical accounts
- Researchers concerned with credibility and interpretation
- Those seeking diagnostic guidance or treatment advice
- Readers expecting a full transcript archive
- Those wanting neat institutional conclusions
Inside the book
- Author’s Note
- Fifteen chapters drawn from spoken material
- Afterword on credibility, inference, and being read
Excerpt
“It didn’t feel like I was changing. It felt like the world was.”
From Chapter 1.