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A fragile revolution : consumers and psychiatric survivors confront the power of the mental health system / Barbara Everett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Everett, Barbara, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ex-mental patients--Ontario--Political activity.
- Ex-mental patients.
- Mental health planning--Ontario--Citizen participation.
- Mental health planning.
- Mental health policy--Ontario.
- Mental health policy.
- Genre:
- Libros electronicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Investigates the complex relationship between ex-mental patients, the government, the mental health system, and mental health professionals. It also explores how changes in policy have affected that relationship, creating new tensions and new opportunities. Using qualitative interviews with prominent consumer and survivor activists, Everett examines how consumers and survivors define themselves, how they define mental illness, and how their personal experience has been turned into political action.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-92529-9
- 9786610925292
- 0-88920-814-X
- 0-585-32590-1
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