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Author Vine, Phyllis, 1945- author.

Title Fighting for recovery : an activists' history of mental health reform / Phyllis Vine.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3000206~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  362.20973 VIN    AVAILABLE
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Description xv, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-367) and index.
Contents Tear 'em down -- "Nothing about us without us" -- Building opportunities for community care -- Because of our sons -- A First Lady's law -- With blinders on -- Finding a strategic vision -- This is America's shame -- The gentlemen from Kentucky -- Dueling diagnoses -- The soul's frail dwelling house -- The clozapine story--risk-benefit or risky benefits -- Building a village -- Leadership in the service of peers -- Stand on cue -- The impracticalities of the situation -- A vintage year -- Recovery and wellness.
Summary "Unfazed by the authority of psychiatry and a conventional wisdom discouraging their recovery, ex-patients created a social justice movement insisting on opportunities for recovery for people with a psychiatric diagnosis"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Mental health policy -- United States -- History.
Mental health services -- United States -- History.
Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History.
Mentally ill -- Political activity -- United States.
Social movements -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780807079614 (hardcover)
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