Abstract
Over the years, there has been an authentic eruption of personal narratives of mental illnesses. These narratives are not entirely new phenomenon; they can be traced to the fifteenth century (Barlow & Durand, 2004). This case study explores “The stepladder to the impossible”; a first-hand account by Peter Chadwick detailing his 1979 schizoaffective psychotic crisis. Chadwick described how psychosis invaded him following a severe life stress and maltreatment as a terror of his own ‘dark night of the soul’ (Chadwick, 1993). Chadwick has had no relapse since 1979 episodes and stressed that those who have been diagnosed schizophrenic can still live meaningful lives (Chadwick et al., 2009; Chadwick, 2007; Chadwick, 2012; McManus & Carson, 2012).
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