Fountain House: Portraits of Lives Reclaimed from Mental Illness

by Mark Glickman and Mary Flannery

Book Overview

Fountain House This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156838128X
• ISBN13: 9781568381282
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Hazelden
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Give people with mental illness a chance to live

The purpose of the club is that there is no purpose. What? Yes, there are places, 250 clubs throughout the world, where persons with a mental illness can go where "we" can change from professional patients to human beings. Thats a tall order. I want to go somewhere where I do not have to suffer someones good intentions for me. So caretakers should not have good intentions? God forbid. In the clubhouses the members (ex-mental patients) do not need to be tinkered with. We need to be given a chance to experience choice. I work in the club and when I feel ready to work for pay, the club offers the oppurtunity. I can work outside for the same wage as my normal co-workers. These jobs are four hours a day for six months. With several of these I will have a resume and now the chance to work on my own becomes real. I do not attend work readiness classes, nor budgeting classes but I am immersed right on the job. I learn from my experiences. These are different from being on the expensive back wards of a mental institution.