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9780191754791

Recovery of People with Mental Illness Philosophical and Related Perspectives

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    9780191754791

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  • Copyright: 2013-02-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents


Preface: background and overview, Abraham Rudnick
About the authors
Overview of Chapter 1
1. Introduction, Abraham Rudnick
Section 1: First person accounts in relation to recovery
2. Life beyond psychiatry, Wilma Boevink
3. A wellness approach to mental health recovery, Margaret Swarbrick
4. Families and patients with mental illness - on the recovery road, Eliahu Shamir
Section 2: Historical, epistemological and metaphysical aspects of recovery of people with mental illness
5. Benevolence and discipline: the concept of recovery in early 19th century moral treatment, Louis C. Charland
6. The epistemological basis of personal recovery, Mike Slade
7. Contrasting conceptualizations of recovery imply distinct research methodology, Kenneth Gill
8. Cultural contexts and constructions of recovery, Ademola Adeponle, Rob Whitley, and Laurence J. Kirmayer
9. Recovery and hope in relation to schizophrenia, Beate Schrank, Johannes Wally, and Burghart Schmidt
10. Recovery, narrative theory and generative madness, Bradley Lewis
11. From being subjected to being a subject: recovery in relation to schizophrenia, Paul Lysaker and John Lysaker
Section 3: Justice and other ethical aspects of recovery of people with mental illness
12. Some social science antinomies and their implications for the recovery-oriented approach to mental illness and psychiatric rehabilitation, Shlomo Kravetz and Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon
13. Recovery and the partitioning of scientific authority in psychiatry, Douglas Porter and Peter Zachar
14. Being ill and getting better: recovery and accounts of disorder, Rachel Cooper
15. Is recovery a model?, Tim Thornton
16. Considering recovery as a process: or, life is not an outcome, Larry Davidson
17. Recovery and stigma: issues of social justice, Elizabeth Flanagan, Dror Ben Zeev, and Patrick Corrigan
18. Recovery and advocacy: contextualising justice in relation to recovery from mental illness in East Asia, Marcus Yu-Lung Chiu
19. Ethical and related practical issues faced by recovery-oriented mental health care providers: a risk-benefit analysis, Abraham Rudnick

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