| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Nothing changes and no one gets better -- Becoming a professional helper -- What is mental illness? -- Help for the patients -- Nothing changes and no one gets better -- Control battles -- Who's in charge of the staff? -- Helpless and hopeless -- From insanity to mental illness to psychiatric disability -- Insanity -- Mental illness -- Anti-psychiatric thought and feminist criticism -- Therapeutic community -- Deinstitutionalization -- Psychiatric disability -- Power and protest -- Power inequity and oppression -- Dominance -- For your own good -- Power as protest -- Agency -- Power as a contractual relationship -- New social movements -- Personal empowerment and social action -- When things go wrong -- A new power contract? -- Partnership -- Another group of partners -- Making of policy -- Forgotten partners -- A special bond -- Telling stories -- Four stories -- Sadly mistaken -- A special bond -- Personal becomes political -- Them -- Invisibility -- They hate emotion -- It's just a job -- They are abusive -- But they're more like us than they think -- System -- Us -- Getting involved -- Is this a social movement -- Consumer? Survivor? Consumer/survivor? Or just a person? -- When some of "us" joined "them" -- Ontario Psychiatric Survivors Alliance -- Partnership -- Threat and the promise of partnership -- Problems with partnership -- Personal costs -- Feeling used -- If it's not partnership, what is it? -- Will mental health reform work? |
| Summary |
Investigates the complex relationship between ex-mental patients, the government, the mental health system, and mental health professionals. It also explores how changes in policy have affected that relationship, creating new tensions and new opportunities. Using qualitative interviews with prominent consumer and survivor activists, Everett examines how consumers and survivors define themselves, how they define mental illness, and how their personal experience has been turned into political action. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ex-mental patients -- Political activity -- Ontario.
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Ex-mental patients. |
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Political participation. |
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Ontario. |
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Mental health planning -- Ontario -- Citizen participation.
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Mental health planning. |
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Mental health policy -- Ontario.
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Mental health policy. |
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Mental Health Services. |
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Health Care Reform. |
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Health Policy. |
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Patient Participation. |
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Patient-Centered Care. |
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Ontario. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Everett, Barbara, 1949- Fragile revolution. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2000 0889203423 |
| ISBN |
0585325901 (electronic book) |
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9780585325903 (electronic book) |
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0889203423 |
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9780889203426 |
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1280925299 |
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9781280925290 |
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