Britiske forskere: Hva er galt med recovery?

En postmoderne psykiatri

Pat Bracken er en irsk psykiater og filosof. Han har lansert begrepet postpsykiatri på recoveryorientert psykisk helsehjelp som anerkjenner mangfold og annethet. Hør ham i et foredrag han holdt ved Universitet i Glasgow i vinter (foredraget starter ca 02:55).
Hentet herfra.

Pat Deegan om recovery

Studie om stemmer og livshistorie

In 94% of cases, it was possible to clearly formulate the underlying emotional conflicts embodied by the voices (e.g., low self-worth, anger, shame and guilt). Representations for voice identity (e.g., disowned aspects of self, a family member, a past abuser) were formulated in 78% of cases. It is proposed that many individuals hear voices that make psychological sense in the context of life events, and that this information can be clinically applied in ways that serve personal recovery.

The origins of voices: links between life history and voice hearing in a survey of 100 cases
av Dirk Corstens og Eleanor Longden

Les også: 
Psykiatri: Om å høre stemmer av psykiater Dag Coucheron

Flo Bellamys reise

Two years ago I began the search to find who I was beneath all the labels and major tranquilisers. I was a revolving door psychiatric patient with a severe mental illness. Well, that’s what the system told me and I was fitting into that role well.

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Now, the voices are great friends and advisors. I would never want to get rid of them. I no longer identify with my previous role as a severely mentally ill psychiatric patient but a human being that is experiencing and surviving life in my own unique way.

Les Flo Bellamys bloggpost From psychiatric patient to human being: My journey in a nutshell.

Å skrive livsnarrativ

[P]eople are doomed to confirm their diagnosis regardless of how they react to the information they are given. If they accept the diagnosis, for instance, this constitutes their agreement, despite the fact that if they really do have the illness they are not supposed to be capable of having such awareness. Agreement also renders all of their other beliefs, ideas, and decisions suspect at best, as we still view schizophrenia as impairing their cognitive abilities and judgment. If, on the other hand, they deny the diagnosis, or refuse to accept it, this act can be used as evidence that the person lacks insight and therefore must have a mental illness. As a result, all of her beliefs, ideas, and decisions are similarly suspect, if not dismissed out of hand. Either way, the person is viewed as lacking the essential prerequisites for being a narrator of her own experience: awareness and insight.

Self and narrative in schizophrenia: time to author a new story

Will Hall snakker til den amerikanske psykiaterforeningen

Hørverdig foredrag av Will Hall: Will Hall speaks to the American Psychiatric Association!! (audio here) .

To alternativer til sykdomsmodellen

Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis

“In Rethinking Madness, Paris Williams writes of how science, history, and personal stories of recovery from madness all tell of how the medical model of schizophrenia/psychosis is horribly flawed and needs to be fundamentally rethought. In a clear manner, he lays out the evidence for a ‘paradigm shift’ in our thinking that, at its core, would offer people who experience madness both hope and the knowledge that robust recovery is possible, and, with the right support, quite common. And as the personal stories in his book reveal, for some, a bout of madness can be a transformative personal journey.”
Robert Whitaker

Dr. Paris Williams offers the very rare and powerful perspective of someone who has experienced psychosis from both sides--as a practicing psychologist and researcher, and as someone who has himself struggled with psychotic experiences.

Les utdrag av boka Rethinking Madness: Towards a Paradigm Shift in our Understanding and Treatment of Psychosis her.

Bruce Levine om recovery etter schizofrenidiagnose

"I have spent time with hundreds of treatment reform activists who were once diagnosed with schizophrenia but who have recovered without medication, and my experience is that they consider themselves lucky to have had family and/or friend support for their choice to resist psychiatric authorities. They tell me that overwhelming anxiety is often a trigger for relapse, and having family or friends with confidence in the possibility of recovery and in their treatment choices is a great anxiety reducer."

Anti-Authoritarians and Schizophrenia: Do Rebels Who Defy Treatment Do Better? http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/05/anti-authoritarians-and-schizophrenia-do-rebels-who-defy-treatment-do-better/

Norsk avdeling av Verdensorganisasjonen for psykososial rehabilitering

World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) er en organisasjon som jobber både faglig og politisk i mange land i verden. Den har alltid inkludert brukere og pårørende i sine arrangementer, og er opptatt av dagligliv, bolig, arbeid og levekår i tillegg til spørsmål knyttet til behandling og rehabilitering.

WAPR Norge arrangerer sin første fagsamling 6. juni 2012 i Bergen - der hovedforedragsholder blir den kjente psykologen Marianne Farkas fra Boston University. Hun vil snakke om internasjonale erfaringer med psykososial rehabilitering, særlig recoveryorientert praksis som hun har forsket mye på.

Det er Verdenskongress i Italia i november.

- Recovery is about changing our lives, not changing our biochemistry

Patricia Deegan PhD is a psychologist and researcher.
She was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.