Author: Leah Rokeach LCSW
These days, people are talking about recovery from mental illness. This is a great step forward. What does recovery mean? There are many perceptions and definitions of recovery. When we look at the recovery literature, we see that it has been variously used to mean an approach, a model, a philosophy, a paradigm, a movement, a vision and skeptically, a myth. This understandably creates ambiguity and confusion. William Anthony M.D. Director of the Boston Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, states that in the last several decades, several sources of data have converged to demonstrate that people with severe mental illness are achieving higher roles of functioning, subjective well- being, and adjustment than had previously been considered, and that severe mental illnesses are not universally deteriorative.
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