Recovery from Mental Illness: From Social Control to the Bio-, through the Psycho-, toward the Social Essence of Recoverydoi:10.4103/wsp.wsp_18_23MENTAL healthMEDICAL careSOCIAL psychiatrySOCIAL controlMEDICAL personnelBasu, DebasishGupta, Nitin...
“I’ll always have mental health problems so I’ll never recover.”“I don’t believe I had an illness but recovery implies I did have one.”“I don’t see my madness as undesirable, so what is it I need to recover from?”. “To recover means to cover up again, but I don’t...
Book review. Recovery in mental illness: broadening our understanding of wellness Canadian Journal of Community Mental HealthNelson G
The Impact of Illness Identity on Recovery from Severe Mental Illness The impact of the experience and diagnosis of mental illness on one's identity has long been recognized; however, little is known about the impact of illne... PT Yanos,D Roe,PH Lysaker - 《Am J Psychiatr Rehabil》 被引...
BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: Recovery from mental illness is an individual process characterized by regaining a positive sense of self and developing a new meaning. Knowledge concerning differences between male and female recovery processes is, however, limited. The objective of this study ...
In this informative and inspiring book the author narrates the stories of 12 patients whom he treated during their recovery from serious mental illness. These narratives reveal their common struggles: misdiagnosis, dual-diagnosis, impeded access to medication, medication-adherence issues, homelessness,...
A man named Reggie, mellow but focused, stands before a magnetic white board and, marker in hand, prompts the group: What is relapse? And: if you know the harmful, injurious consequences of ingesting a drink or drug, and you do it anyway, does that constitute mental illness? And: if ...
The two narratives led to the design of a model for mental illness trajectory (MMIT), where in order to find recovery, individuals go through a process of recreating their social self, adopting more positive coping strategies, to move from hostage to survivor. The MMIT demonstrates the transform...
The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived influence of family on recovery from severe mental illness. 54 semi-structured interviews were conducted with a diverse sample of people with severe mental illness living in Montreal. Results indicated that family both facilitated and impeded re...
This communication deals with three real histories obtained through interviews to people suffering a mental illness that obtained a non-protected job. Method. The three histories together with a sample study about the Agustín Serrate Foundation program provides the field work used for the later ...