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Larry Davidson - The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry: Lessons Learned - 9780470777633 - V9780470777633
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The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry: Lessons Learned

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Description for The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry: Lessons Learned Hardcover. The 'Recovery Movement' is an attempt to consider people with mental illnesses first and foremost as individuals. Governments and planning bodies have made commitments to develop mental health policy and services towards recovery as a treatment option. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MMH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 249 x 174 x 22. Weight in Grams: 668.
As the global psychiatric community enters a new era of transformation, this book explores lessons learned from previous efforts with the goal of “getting it right” this time. In response to the common refrain that we know about and ‘do’ recovery already, the authors set the recovery movement within the conceptual framework of major thinkers and achievers in the history of psychiatry, such as Philippe Pinel, Dorothea Dix, Adolf Meyer, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Franco Basaglia.

The book reaches beyond the usual boundaries of psychiatry to incorporate lessons from related fields, such as psychology, sociology, social welfare, philosophy, political ... Read more

In addition, the authors highlight the limitations of previous efforts to reform and transform mental health practice, such as the de-institutionalization movement begun in the 1950s, in the hope that the field will not have to repeat these same mistakes. Their thoughtful analysis and valuable advice will benefit people in recovery, their loved ones, the practitioners who serve them, and society at large.

Foreword by Fred Frese, Founder of the Community and State Hospital Section of the American Psychological Association and past president of the National Mental Health Consumers' Association

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470777633
SKU
V9780470777633
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Larry Davidson
Larry Davidson is Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center at Yale. His patient-oriented research includes recovery from serious mental illness, the development of qualitative and participatory research methods, community-based treatment of psychosis, the development and evaluation of innovative psycho-social interventions, and the promotion of collaborative relationships between people with serious mental illness and their healthcare providers. ... Read more

Reviews for The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry: Lessons Learned
"Overall, this book would be useful for students and practitioners who are familiar with the literature on recovery." (Mental Health Practice, 1 November 2011) "This is an important contribution from international leads, which offers the reader interested in recovery an awareness of its substantial ethical and political foundations and the need to sustain a civil rights perspective." (British Journal ... Read more

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