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. Many generalize psychiatric survivors and consumers as being the same, however the distinction is notable for accuracy. To say that a psychiatric survivor has consumed mental health services, is not the same as saying that services were willing sought.

The independent living movement

Howard Gelding or Howie The Harp was one of the original pioneers in mental health recovery. While his concepts and ideas spear-headed the concepts of peer-support and the drop-in center etc. There is still no mention of Mr. Gelding in psychology.

The psychiatric survivor movement

The beginning of a formal movement is often attributed to Howie the Harp, and the formation of the Insane Liberation Front in Portland, Oregon in 1969. The psychiatric survivor movement is a loose coalition of people feeling betrayed by psychiatry have come together to promote legal and treatment alternatives as members of the psychiatric survivors movement. Psychiatric survivors greatly reject the psychiatric doctrine. Anti-psychiatry groups such as MindFreedom International and the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry have also played important roles in the psychiatric survivors movement. According to members of the psychiatric survivors movement, some people considered mentally ill, and subsequently mistreated by certain psychiatrists or by psychiatric doctrine in general, do not benefit from the services offered or forced upon them. According to the movement, many respond with outrage to a system which judges them to be mentally ill, because they consider there to be a value bias within psychiatry that over-rates the judgment of psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and the legal oversight of the mental health system. According to the movement, many also view interventions made in the name of help to be coercive and inherently violent in nature. Sally Clay...

The family advocacy movement

the family advocacy movement begins with NAMI or The National Alliance on Mental Illness was founded in 1979 as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, is a nation-wide American advocacy group, representing families and people affected by serious Mental disorders as a non-profit grass roots organization. NAMI's mission is to provide support, education, advocacy, and research for people and their families living with mental illness through various public education and awareness activities.

The consumer movement

The Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement, also known as the User/Survivor Movement, refers to a diverse association of individuals (and organizations representing them) who are currently "consumers" (clients) of mental health services, or who consider themselves "survivors" of mental health services, or who simply identify as "ex-patients". The movement is associated with campaigning for improved mental health services, and particularly for greater empowerment and choice. Common themes are "talking back to the power of psychiatry", rights protection and advocacy, and self-determination. While activists in this movement may share a collective identity, they can be seen as enacting their concerns along a continuum from conservative to radical, according to their position in relation to psychiatric treatment and their relative levels of resistance and patienthood.