Excerpt from an important review of an important book

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"Psychiatry is in an era of change not only in terms of new scientific models of mental health but also in values-based models of psychiatric service. Our nation's first two commissions on mental health were appointed by President Kennedy in 1963 and by President Carter in 1978. The third commission, the New Freedom Commission appointed by George W. Bush, sets a vision for recovery in its budget-neutral document, Achieving the Promise"

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"If recovery is a scientific model, then more review could have been invested not only in those areas of the field where recovery easily informs our understanding of illness and outcome but also in areas where recovery has challenges in explaining service provision and certain other phenomena. If recovery is a values-based model, then additional attention to the ethics of recovery or the complex issues of how recovery is balanced by public and personal safety would have helped".


Reference:

Jabbarpour, Yad. M. (Book review) Psychiatr Serv 58:1128, August 2007 American Psychiatric Association

Book Reviewed
Recovery From Severe Mental Illnesses: Research Evidence and Implications for Practice, Volumes 1 and 2
edited by Larry Davidson, Courtenay Harding, and LeRoy Spaniol; Boston, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 2005, 511 pages and 448 pages, $49.95 each, softcover