Fragile Revolution: Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Confront the Power of the Mental Health System

by Barbara Everett

Despite two centuries and three major reform movements, mental patients have remained on the outside of the mainstream of society, often living in poverty and violence. Today we are undergoing yet another period of reform and, in a historical first, ex-mental patients, now calling themselves consumers and psychiatric survivors, have been recruited in record numbers by the Ontario government to participate in the change process. A Fragile Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889203423
• ISBN13: 9780889203426
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"