Edited by Dr. Abraham Rudnick
It is only in the past 20 years that the concept of "recovery" from mental health has been more widely considered and researched. Before then, it was generally considered that "stability" was the best that anyone suffering from a mental disorder could hope for. But now it is recognised that,
throughout their mental illness, many patients develop new beliefs, feelings, values, attitudes, and ways of dealing with their disorder. The notion of recovery from mental illness is thus rapidly being accepted and is inserting more hope into mainstream psychiatry and other parts of the mental
health care system around the world. Yet, in spite of conceptual and other challenges that this notion raises, including a variety of interpretations, there is scarcely any systematic philosophical discussion of it.
This book is unique in addressing philosophical issues - including
conceptual challenges and opportunities - raised by the notion of recovery of people with mental illness. Such recovery - particularly in relation to serious mental illness such as schizophrenia - is often not about cure and can mean different things to different people. For example, it can mean
symptom alleviation, ability to work, or the striving toward mental well-being (with or without symptoms). The book addresses these different meanings and their philosophical grounds, bringing to the fore perspectives of people with mental illness and their families as well as perspectives of
philosophers, mental health care providers and researchers, among others.
The important new work will contribute to further research, reflective practice and policy making in relation to the recovery of people with mental illness. It is essential reading for philosophers of health,
psychiatrists, and other mental care providers, as well as policy makers.
Abraham Rudnick: Preface: Background and Overview
About the authors
Overview of Chapter 1
1. Abraham Rudnick: Introduction
Section 1: First Person Accounts in Relation to Recovery
2. Wilma Boevink: Life Beyond Psychiatry
3. Margaret Swarbrick: A Wellness
Approach to Mental Health Recovery
4. Eli Shamir: Families and Patients with Mental Illness - on the recovery road
Section 2: Historical, Epistemological and Metaphysical Aspects of Recovery of People with Mental Illness
5. Louis Charland: Benevolence and Discipline: the
concept of recovery in early 19th century moral treatment
6. Mike Slade: The Epistemological Basis of Personal Recovery
7. Kenneth Gill: Contrasting Conceptualizations of Recovery Imply Distinct Research Methodology
8. Ademole Adeponle, Robert Whitley, and Laurence J. Kirmayer:
Cultural Contexts and Constructions of Recovery
9. Beate Schranck, Johannes Wally, and Burghart Schmidt: Recovery and Hope in Relation to Schizophrenia
10. Bradley Lewis: Recovery, Narrative Theory and Generative Madness
11. Paul Lysaker and John Lysaker: From Being Subjected to Being
a Subject: recovery in relation to schizophrenia
Section 3: Justice and Other Ethical Aspects of Recovery of People with Mental Illness
12. Shlomo Kravetz, and Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon: Some Social Science Antinomies and Their Implications for the Recovery-Oriented Approach to Mental
Illness and Psychiatric Rehabilitation
13. Peter Zachar and Douglas Porter: Recovery and the Partitioning of Authority in Psychiatry
14. Rachel Cooper: Being Ill and Getting Better: recovery and accounts of disorder
15. Tim Thornton: Recovery, Model, Values and Narrative
Understanding
16. Larry Davidson: Considering Recovery as a Process: or, life is not an outcome
17. Elizabeth Flanagan, Dror Ben-Zeev, and Patrick Corrigan: Recovery and Stigma: issues of social justice
18. Marcus Chiu: Recovery and Advocacy: contextualising justice in relation to
recovery from mental illness in East Asia
19. Abraham Rudnick: Ethical and Related Practical Issues Faced by Recovery-Oriented Mental Health Care Providers
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Dr. Abraham (Rami) Rudnick, BMedSc, MD, MPsych, PhD, CPRP, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist and a philosopher who conducts research, teaches, practices clinically and leads mental health care services in Canada. His particular expertise is in bioethics and in psychiatric rehabilitation, especially in
relation to people with serious mental illness such as schizophrenia. In his work, he addresses philosophical aspects of health and its correlates and recovery of people with mental illness.
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