The Emergence of the Recovery Movement - A Special E-Book Report

DUNDAS, Ontario - April 23, 2014 - PRLog -- Access to treatment for mental illness has become more challenging in the United States and Canada than it was 20, 30, or even 40 years ago. The number of acute care psychiatric beds continues to decline although the demand has remained largely unchanged. On the other hand, the number of individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses in our prison systems has grown dramatically.

Anti-psychiatry influences of civil libertarians, human rights activists and consumer survivors are making it increasingly difficult for individuals suffering from severe and persistent mental illness including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis to get the treatment they need. The opposition to involuntary hospitalization and treatment betrays a profound misunderstanding of civil rights when people experiencing psychosis, hallucinations and delusions are denied access to evidence-based treatment that will restore their autonomy and prevent further mental or physical deterioration, suffering and death.

Too many politicians in both the US and Canada fail to connect the dots between untreated mental illness and violent behavior. With acute-care psychiatric beds in short supply, the criminal justice system has become the surrogate mental health provider for people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder experiencing psychotic symptoms.

Lembi Buchanan explores the history of psychiatry and the recovery movement as well as mental health and the law in this concise 60 plus pages overview of some of the major issues facing mental health care today.

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The Emergence of the Recovery Movement is available on Kindle and Kobo for only $5.00