International award winning documentary filmmaker, Emma Goude, is emerging from behind the camera to tell her own story. Her first memoir 'My Beautiful Psychosis' changes the perception of psychosis as a debilitating illness. Her own experience is that psychosis holds within it the potential for transformation. She hopes that sharing her story will inspire others, improve attitudes and ultimately contribute to a better system of psychiatric care.

It was reading 'The Stormy Search For The Self' by Christina and Stanislov Grof that helped Emma reframe her experiences. Emma went on to help found the Spiritual Crisis Network in the UK and volunteered on its email support line for people in crisis. 

As a filmmaker, Emma Goude was commissioned by Consultant Psychiatrist Dr. Russell Razzaque to film Open Dialogue training that is being introduced into the NHS. It is a radical new system of care that developed in Finland. It sees any form of mental distress as a sign of a break down in social relationships and so seeks to rebuild these.

Emma Goude has been part of an international movement for change in the mental health services for the past fifteen years. She is currently living in Buenos Aires where she is following her passion for dancing tango.