The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry (eBook)

Larry Davidson is Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center at Yale. His patient-oriented research includes recovery from serious mental illness, the development of qualitative and participatory research methods, community-based treatment of psychosis, the development and evaluation of innovative psycho-social interventions, and the promotion of collaborative relationships between people with serious mental illness and their healthcare providers. He received the President's Award, United States Psychosocial Rehabilitation Association, New York Chapter, in 2007 and the Franco Basaglia Memorial Scholarship, Fondazione Basaglia, Rome, Italy, in 2008. Jaak Rakfeldt is Professor of Social Work at the Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT, USA. John Strauss is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

1.1 What is the recovery movement in psychiatry?

1.2 Rationale for the book

1.3 From traitement moral to moral treatment

1.4 Reciprocity in community-based care

1.5 The everyday and interpersonal context of recovery

1.6 Closing the hospital

1.7 The rights and responsibilities of citizenship

1.8 Agency as a basis for transformation

1.9 Why these figures and not others?

1.10 Conclusion

2 FromTraitement Moral to Moral Treatment

2.1 The birth of psychiatry as a medical speciality

2.2 Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptise Pussin

2.3 Traitement moral

2.4 Pinel's psychological interventions

2.5 The Retreat at York

2.6 Moral treatment or moral management?

2.7 From treatment to education

2.8 Re-shaping character

2.9 The demise of moral treatment

2.10 Summary of lessons learned

3 Reciprocity in Community-based Care

3.1 The advocacy of dorothea dix

3.2 The legacy of dorothea dix

3.3 Jane Addams' community alternative

3.4 A series of unfortunate, but influential, events

3.5 The founding of the first american'settlement'

3.6 Forty years at hull-house

3.7 Distilling the active ingredients

3.8 Interventions with individuals

3.9 Interventions with collectives

3.10 Applications to mental health

3.11 Summary of lessons learned

4 The Everyday and Interpersonal Context of Recovery

4.1 The birth of psychiatry as a community-based practice

4.2 Beyond the illness paradigm (by John Strauss, part 1)

4.3 Growing up inside meyer's 'common sense'psychiatry (by John Strauss, part 2)

4.4 Subjectivity and the person (by John Strauss, part 3)

4.5 Blending science and art in a human science (by JohnStrauss, part 4)

4.6 From a psychiatry based in death to a psychiatry based inlife

4.7 Problems in everyday living and their resolution

4.8 Opportunity and occupation

4.9 The interpersonal context of recovery

4.10 Summary of lessons learned

5 Closing the Hospital

5.1 The failure of the asylum

5.2 Erving Goffman and the presentation of self

5.3 The hospital as 'total institution'

5.4 Franco Basaglia and the Italian mental health reformmovement

5.5 De-institutionalization the Italian way

5.6 Bracketing the illness

5.7 'Freedom is therapeutic'

5.8 Avoiding the re-creation of the asylum in the community

5.9 Social inclusion

5.10 Summary of lessons learned

6 The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship

6.1 Recovery as a civil rights movement

6.2 The incomplete world of Martin Luther King, Jnr

6.3 Can rights be given?

6.4 Recovery delayed is recovery denied

6.5 Colour blindness and capitalism

6.6 The complete subject of Gilles Deleuze

6.7 Oedipus and anti-oedipus

6.8 Schizophrenic speech and Watergate

6.9 Community inclusion vs community integration

6.10 Summary of lessons learned

7 Agency as the Basis for Transformation

7.1 The need for a new conceptual framework

7.2 Beyond de-institutionalization and community tenure

7.3 Rights and recovery

7.4 The capabilities approach of Amartya Sen

7.5 Applying a capabilities approach to the work oftransformation

7.6 Human agency and mediation: the work of Lev Vygotsky

7.7 Action theory, the zone of proximal development andscaffolding

7.8 Applying activity analysis: the case of fossilizedbehaviour

7.9 Applying activity analysis: using the zone of proximaldevelopment

7.10 Summary of lessons learned

8 Conclusion

References

Index

"Overall, this book would be useful for students and practitioners
who are familiar with the literature on recovery." (Mental Health
Practice, 1 November 2011)

"This is an important contribution from international leads,
which offers the reader interested in recovery an awareness of its
substantial ethical and political foundations and the need to
sustain a civil rights perspective." (British Journal of
Psychiatry, 2011)

"Just as Tuke and the late 18th century reformers
were bold in their vision of moral treatment, we need to be bold
about recovery. Davidson et al. provide some of the conceptual and
political framework for that vision, and it is these aspects of
their book that will help practitioners build recovery focused
mental health services." (Metapsychology, February
2011)"This book should be required reading for any young
professional entering the mental health field. Education in the
history of the development of applied psychology will often give
the reader a self-satisfied glow. We know so much more now than in
the days of insulin shock therapy, hydrotherapy, and
psychoanalysis. The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry:
Lessons Learned drives home the point that we can learn as much
from the successes of our predecessors as we can from their
mistakes". (American Psychological Association, 17 November
2010)

"This book is a wonderful contribution to the literature
attempting to untangle the web of what recovery truly means to
individuals and how care can continue to evolve to meet the
fundamental rights of human beings with serious mental illnesses."
(Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, Summer 2010)"However
the book is not limited to the study of psychiatry- it illustrates
how psychiatry has been influenced by other disciplines such as
philosophy, sociology, psychology, political theory, and civil
rights. This is the major strength of this book." (British
Journal of Wellbeing, September 2010)