A fragile revolution :: consumers and psychiatric survivors confront the power of the mental health system /

Investigates the complex relationship between ex-mental patients, the government, the mental health system, and mental health professionals. It also explores how changes in policy have affected that relationship, creating new tensions and new opportunities. Using qualitative interviews with prominen...

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1. Verfasser: Everett, Barbara, 1949-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2000.
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Zusammenfassung:Investigates the complex relationship between ex-mental patients, the government, the mental health system, and mental health professionals. It also explores how changes in policy have affected that relationship, creating new tensions and new opportunities. Using qualitative interviews with prominent consumer and survivor activists, Everett examines how consumers and survivors define themselves, how they define mental illness, and how their personal experience has been turned into political action.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 251 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
ISBN:0585325901
9780585325903
0889203423
9780889203426
1280925299
9781280925290

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