Psychological Recovery

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This book offers a succinct model of recovery from serious mentalillness, synthesizing stories of lived experience to provide aframework for clinical work and research in the field ofrecovery. * Places the process of recovery within the context ofnormal human growth and development * Compares and contrasts concepts of recovery frommental illness with the literature on grief, loss and trauma * Situates recovery within the growing field of positivepsychology - focusing on the active, hopeful process * Describes a consumer-oriented, stage-based model ofpsychological recovery which is unique in its focus onintrapersonal processes

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"This is an exciting and important book that is sure to stimulate dialogue and debate within the rapidly growing international recovery movement." (TMCnet.com, 5 December 2011) This book addresses an international challenge in relation torecovery: how to bring empirical investigation to theconsumer-developed understanding of recovery. The authors rise tothis challenge superbly. They rightly position recovery as arisingfrom the lived experience of people who use mental health services,and then develop an empirically-based understanding of the stagesand processes of recovery. This empirical work has beeninternationally influential and the detailed description will be ofwide interest. The authors then contextualise their work within thefield of positive psychology and well-being research -areaswhich will directly inform the evolution of mental health servicesin the 21st Century. I recommend this book, and hope itis widely read. --Mike Slade, Researcher(researchintorecovery.com) and Author of 'Personal Recoveryand Mental Illness' This book begins by examining the history of schizophrenia, anddiscerning the roots of pessimism in its outlook. The authors thenintroduce the concept of recovery, and their own model of itsprocess, which is via a series of stages, which they show can bemeasured and used in treatment. One great value of a work such asthis is that it injects factors that are often lacking in treatmentenvironments, and sometimes in the minds of service providers,namely hope and optimism. As such, this book will be, or should be,of interest to all those who work with people with serious mentalillnesses. --Tom Trauer, Professor, Department ofPsychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia This is an exciting and important book that is sure to stimulatedialogue and debate within the rapidly growing internationalrecovery movement. Based on years of interviews of, andconversations with, people with first-hand experiences of recoveryconducted by leading recovery researchers in Australia, this bookoffers the beginning of a road map for the recovery journey thatwill be found useful by people with serious mental illnesses, theirloved ones, and mental health practitioners alike. --Larry Davidson, Professor of Psychiatry,Yale University
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