This book draws on the accounts of people who have faced the challenge of life with a mental health problem, in order to propose that the guiding principle of m

A comprehensive account of the multiple ways that people with mental health conditions are marginalised and disadvantaged in our society.

Focuses on a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations towards new priorities of supporting the patient.

The concept of recovery in mental health represents the radical shift from the reductive ideas of disease and cure to a holistic understanding of the individual

People with serious mental illness no longer spend years of their lives in psychiatric institutions. In developed countries, there has been a major shift in the