The Theory of Recovery Psychology/The Recovery Model/The Recovery Movement

The Recovery Movement

The recovery movement as it is refered to in this textbook means a multitude of social co-existing movements that occurred simultaneously. Often referred to as the C/S/X movement, meaning consumer/survivor/Ex-patient movement. The term consumer has a connotation of descriptive of a person with pro-psychiatric views, where as the term survivor short psychiatric survivor, has a connotation of anti-psychiatric views. The term consumer is meant in the term it is used in economics and politics, with the essence of the term stakeholder which implies empowerment.