L'histoire de la réforme de la santé mentale par des activistes

Fighting for Recovery: An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform

Phyllis Vine

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press (September 27, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807079614

This 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.