"Scholar, journalist, and mental health advocate Phyllis Vine tells the story of the former psychiatric patients, families, and reform-minded clinicians who formed a patients' liberation movement that challenged medical authority and created the recovery model. Following the work of patient-activists, Vine argues that we must replace inhumane and outdated treatments and policies with services that expand beyond psychopharmacology, allowing a recovery journey that acknowledges meaningful relationships, activities, and self-direction. This definitive people's history of mental health care reform looks at fifty years of passinate activism, including the battles and successes waged by former patients whose vision and energy designed programs essential for community-based recovery." -- p. 4 of cover.
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