Schizophrenia is widely considered the most severe and disabling of the mental illnesses. Yet recent research has demonstrated that many people afflicted with the disorder are able to recover to a significant degree. Living Outside Mental Illness de…
As the global psychiatric community enters a new era of transformation, this book explores lessons learned from previous efforts with the goal of "getting it right" this time. In response to the common refrain that we know about and 'do' recovery al…
This book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by the U.S. President's 2003 New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and shows the reader what is entailed in making…
What would you do if you knew you would succeed, and nothing could hold you back?Would you pursue a dream that feels unattainable? Would you finally sign up for that master's program? Would you make a to-do list and actually follow through with it?G…
This book shows us how rather than abandoning psychology once he liberated phenomenology from the psychologism of the philosophy of arithmetic, Edmund Husserl remained concerned with the ways in which phenomenology held important implications for a…
"The presentation finally began. As the head recruiter started speaking, I began taking notes, attempting to document everything she said. Paying attention was difficult. After five minutes, I was laser sight focused on the presenters, taking down v…
