Public mental health case study: learning (and teaching) from personal experience

Abstract

On 15 April 1989, Anne Eyre went to Sheffield to watch Liverpool contest an FA Cup semi‐final with Nottingham Forest. She was caught in a crush in which 96 people were killed. Although physically unhurt, she was traumatised by the event. Learning to ‘tell the story’ played an important part in her recovery. She now teaches others to understand and manage the traumatic impact of large‐scale disaster. Here, she tells the story of her recovery and subsequent work as an educator.

Citation

Eyre, A. (2009), "Public mental health case study: learning (and teaching) from personal experience", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729200900018