Recovery
Dan’s healing and recovery tree
I see a tree whose roots are in the soil of our common ground, our shared humanity. Presently, many of us are living in a spiritually barren land, where hate poisons the soil of
Meds Alone Couldn’t Bring Robert Back
Experts like to debate the effectiveness of new drugs, but they overlook a key element of recovery. When my brother Robert arrived at Bronx Psychiatric Center in 1998, Dr. Alvin Pam, chief of psychology, told
We’ve Been Misled by the Drug Industry
I have recovered from schizophrenia. If that statement surprises you -- if you think schizophrenia is a lifelong brain disease that cannot be escaped -- you have been misled by a cultural misapprehension that needlessly
Healing and recovery are real
By Daniel B. Fisher We who have recovered from mental illness know from our personal experience that recovery is real. We know that recovery is more than remission with a brooding disease hidden in our
Optimizing Medication in the Service of Recovery: Is There a Path for Reducing Over-Utilization of Psychiatric Medications?
By Neil Falk, Daniel B. Fisher, and Will Hall Introduction There was a time when mines in the United States produced ores to go into blast furnaces to produce steel to go to
Intentional Recovery Planning Presentation – Alternatives 2006
World views are an individual’s highly personal way of looking at almost everything about life, the world and human beings. Each person’s world views hold the sacred essence of her or his unique being. (Shery