ISBN: 9780807013342 - fighting for recovery: an activists' history of mental health reform (12 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activismAn essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activismThis definitive people's history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not.In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients' liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible.Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing homelessness-proving there is still progress to be made.This is a book for youA friend or family member of someone with serious psychiatric diagnoses, to understand the history of mental health reformA person struggling with their own diagnoses, to learn how other patients have advocated for themselvesAn activist in the peer-services network: social workers, psychologists, and peer counselors, to advocate for change in the treatment of psychiatric patients at the institutional and individual levelsA policy maker, clinical psychologist, psychiatric resident, or scholar who wants to become familiar with the social histories of mental illness "Unfazed by the authority of psychiatry and a conventional wisdom discouraging their recovery, ex-patients created a social justice movement insisting on opportunities for recovery for people with a psychiatric diagnosis"-- Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activismThis definitive people's history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not.In Fighting for Recovery, professor and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists who formed a patients' liberation movement that challenged medical authority and proved to the world that recovery from mental illness is possible.Mental health discussions have become more common in everyday life, but there are still enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails and prisons or who are experiencing homelessnessproving there is still progress to be made.This is a book for youA friend or family member of someone with serious psychiatric diagnoses, to understand the history of mental health reformA person struggling with their own diagnoses, to learn how other patients have advocated for themselvesAn activist in the peer-services network: social workers, psychologists, and peer counselors, to advocate for change in the treatment of psychiatric patients at the institutional and individual levelsA policy maker, clinical psychologist, psychiatric resident, or scholar who wants to become familiar with the social histories of mental illness.…

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Zustand: New. Phyllis Vine&rsquos book, Families in Pain (Pantheon, 1982), was the first book to discuss family relationships of the mentally ill. As a tenured professor of American history at Sarah Lawrence College until 1989, she included courses in the .

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