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Consumer Articles on Recovery
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Consumer-Survivor Essays, Speeches, Poems, Books |
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Loose Thread is a very well put
together "journal is for all those who have passed through the doors of
psychiatry and have a story to tell." |
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A Poem by
Dorothy W. Dundas |
Mania as Spiritual
Emergency, a personal account by Edward Whitney, MD, Psychiatric
Services, December 1998 Vol. 49 No. 12 |
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Why I am not a Consumer by David
Romprey |
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The Need for Choice in the Mental
Health System,
By Denise Fletcher |
hearing voices by Morgan W. Brown |
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Forced vs. Voluntary Treatment, by
Denise Fletcher |
Psychiatric Survivor by Denise
Fletcher |
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Freedom by Irit
Shimrat |
Stigma is Social Death by Deborah
Reidy (1993) |
Julie Leibrich
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Making Space,
Spirituality and Mental Health, The Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial
Lecture World Assembly for Mental Health Vancouver, July 2001 and
Part I of a two-part invited presentation at the National Conference on
Spirituality and Mental Health Melbourne, 29 &30 March 2004.
- Standing Still:
Spirituality and Sense, Part II of a two-part invited presentation
at the National Conference on Spirituality and Mental Health Melbourne,
29 &30 March 2004.
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Professional Perspectives Regarding
the Merit of the Role of the Consumer Specialist and the Responsibility
Group, By Randy Starr |
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How Drugs
Destroyed Psychiatry, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D. |
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A Successful Reintegration into
the Community: One NGRI Acquittee's Story By Randy Starr |
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Sandwich Therapy, by Pat Risser |
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Rae Says: an
interview with Rae Unzickerby Lucy Gwin |
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The Criteria of What Works and for Whom Part I
by Sue Poole |
Absolute Care,
by Sue Poole |
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The Criteria of
What Works and for Whom Part II by Sue Poole |
Testimony of Leonard
Roy Frank |
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I'm Med Free, But Some People Don't Want to Be by
Reece Sanders |
Walking the Shamans Path: Not Schizophrenia, But Acute Sensitive
by Odette Nightsky |
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Notes on the 10th Triptych
Convention, "Two Sides of Psychosis" by Mira DeVries |
Five Lobe Circus, by Alan Cabal,
www.nypress.com, May 18, 2004 |
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Poems by Kim Gianos, Supermom |
Theory for the Liberation of
the Psychiatrically Labeled by Allan Hunter |
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See CineMania: Erasing the Stigma, by David Gonzalez |
The Diagnosis Myth, by Eric Shapiro |
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Felicia |
The Usual Things by Kalevi Rinne |
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Unhinged Mind by Bill
Nordahl |
Poems by Martin Felker |
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Peer Support: A
Theoretical Perspective by Mead, Shery, M.S.W., Hilton, David, M.A.,
Curtis, Laurie, M.A. (PDF)
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The Client Voice
from Pat Risser's Website
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Who
is Pat Risser?
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We've Been Misled by the Drug Industry,
By Daniel B. Fisher
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It’s
Time For a New Paradigm, by Sylvia Caras, PhD |
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The Myriad Works of Paul
William Engholm |
The Mentally Ill of America: "A People in Bondage"
by Tom Barresi
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I am an Eagle by Nils
Riis. |
PsychoMuses by Bill
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1st Person
is a magazine devoted to giving accounts, opinion and artwork from the
perspectives of people who have had mental health conditions, rather than
from the professional point of view
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To Be a
Mental Patient, a poem by Rae Unzicker |
The
Trouble with Pact: Questioning the Increasing Use of Assertive Community Treatment
Teams in Community Mental Health, by Patricial Spindel and Jo Anne Nugent.
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Treatment at Westborough State Hospital |
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CHOICES - Consumers Having Ownership In
Creating Effective Services.
by Jim Gottstein
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The Peer/Self-Advocacy Training
Manual |
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The Fountain House in
Manhattan is dedicated to the recovery of men and women with mental illness by providing
opportunities for members to live, work, and learn, while contributing their talents
through a community of mutual support. |
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The Power of One: Positive Affirmations
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A Light to Brighten The Path
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"The prevalence of abuse histories in the mental
health system" from the National Association of Consumer/Survivor
Mental Health Administrators which represents state mental health department senior managers
who are current or former recipients of mental health services.
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| Three articles by Les Mitchell, New
Zealand Consumer Advisor: |
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Good Enough For Rhoda
Torrey,
Good Enough For Me? by Vicki Fox Wieselthier |
Personal experiences with our Paid Friends.
By Scot L. Wheat |
From
Privileges to Rights: People Labeled with Psychiatric Disabilities Speak for
Themselves |
| Through the Eyes of
a Stranger by Micheal G. Spennato |
Breakin' Trail |
| Jails: A Less Restrictive Alternative? |
Steven Honig: I Found My Place |
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Hoppin on the Bandwagon
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The Saucers Have Landed |
| A Letter to My Psychiatrist |
Intake, Intook, Taken In |
| A Consumer Member's Report on Alaska Mental Health
Board Issues by Jim Gottstein |
A Story of My Mental Illness |
| National
Research and Training Center |
The Schizoaffective Coaster by Brian Benson |
| Meeting Reports |
Consumer Reports |
| API 2000: Time to Reconsider? by Jim
Gottstein
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