Recovery's edge : an ethnography of mental health care and moral agency / Neely Laurenzo Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Neely Laurenzo, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community mental health services--United States.

Community mental health services.

Community mental health services--Social aspects--United States.

People with mental disabilities--Rehabilitation--United States.

People with mental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting "recovery" rather than churning out long-term, "chronic" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental health clinic run, in part, by people who are themselves "in recovery" from mental illness. In this provocative narrative, Neely Myers sweeps us up in her own journey through three years of ethnographic research at this unusual site, providing a nuanced account of different approaches to mental health care. Recovery's Edge critically examines the high bar we set for people in recovery through intimate stories of people struggling to find meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and independent living. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Orientation

No direction home

Step one : take your medication

Step two : self-advocate

Step three : work for intimacy

Recovery's edge

Over the edge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8265-0377-2

0-8265-2081-2

OCLC:

933251458