The individualization and medicalization of the emotional distress of those given psychiatric diagnoses deny the social, political, and economic context in which the presenting behaviours arose and leads away from making changes to society. Some people who are psychiatrically labelled join in groups for solidarity in the face of being stigmatized. In these groups the members can resist the disempowerment and helplessness learned in the psychiatric system. With co-researchers from a self-help group this study gives expression to the usually silenced voices of psychiatrized people. Feminist and standpoint theories, co-cultural and living systems theories form a framework for this narrative study. A structural narrative method is used ...
Background: According to Slade’s Personal Recovery Framework, mental health recovery involves develo...
This research is based on the premise that mental health recovery is an unique and individual journe...
The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one...
The individualization and medicalization of the emotional distress of those given psychiatric diagn...
Findings from a research study conducted with this group suggest that recovery is a process - a life...
The psychiatric survivor movement is an international political movement dedicated to fighting for h...
Although there is evidence of both clinical and personal recovery from distressing voices, the proce...
Following a rise in people 'speaking out' about their recovery and thus challenging traditional psyc...
Objective: The resource group method for people with severe mental illness might provide a useful fr...
Discourses of recovery and resilience have risen to positions of dominance in the mental health fiel...
Objective: The resource group method intends to promote patients' agency and self-management and to ...
Objective: The resource group method intends to promote patients' agency and self-management and to ...
In this paper we describe the contemporary importance of the recovery approach in mental health serv...
The meaning of recovery from serious mental illness (SMI) has evolved over time. Whereas it was not ...
This paper examines the correspondence, manuscripts, and speeches of ex-mental patient activists. I ...
Background: According to Slade’s Personal Recovery Framework, mental health recovery involves develo...
This research is based on the premise that mental health recovery is an unique and individual journe...
The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one...
The individualization and medicalization of the emotional distress of those given psychiatric diagn...
Findings from a research study conducted with this group suggest that recovery is a process - a life...
The psychiatric survivor movement is an international political movement dedicated to fighting for h...
Although there is evidence of both clinical and personal recovery from distressing voices, the proce...
Following a rise in people 'speaking out' about their recovery and thus challenging traditional psyc...
Objective: The resource group method for people with severe mental illness might provide a useful fr...
Discourses of recovery and resilience have risen to positions of dominance in the mental health fiel...
Objective: The resource group method intends to promote patients' agency and self-management and to ...
Objective: The resource group method intends to promote patients' agency and self-management and to ...
In this paper we describe the contemporary importance of the recovery approach in mental health serv...
The meaning of recovery from serious mental illness (SMI) has evolved over time. Whereas it was not ...
This paper examines the correspondence, manuscripts, and speeches of ex-mental patient activists. I ...
Background: According to Slade’s Personal Recovery Framework, mental health recovery involves develo...
This research is based on the premise that mental health recovery is an unique and individual journe...
The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one...