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by Daniel Fisher, MD PhD and Judi Chamberlin

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Now Available!
PACE/Recovery Reader
by Daniel Fisher, MD PhD, Tom Langan, and Laurie Ahern, Eds.

This selection of articles will be a resource to create a "future when everyone labeled with mental illness can recover," as called for in the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report. These readings dispel the false and damaging belief that people labeled with mental illness need to lead lives of endless desperation and broken dreams.


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PACE: A Recovery Guide
by Laurie Ahern, Eds. and Daniel Fisher, MD PhD

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Now available in Japanese (pdf) Translation by: RACA - Recovery Alternative Change Association

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" We envision a future when everyone
with a mental illness will recover"
--New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2003--


Catherine  Penney and Dan Fisher Discuss Recovering From Schizophrenia.  Click photo for full storyCatherine Penney and Dan Fisher Discuss Recovering From Schizophreniza 

"Psychiatrist to Discuss Recovery"
Hartford Courant Article, April 6, 2005

Recovery Through Empowerment
An Interview with Dr. Fisher published online by Medscape, January 20, 2005 

Evidence That People Recover in Published Research and Other Articles 

Principles of Recovery (video)
Implementation of Peer Support Programs (video), Handout (pdf)  Dr. Fisher’s Presentations at a Conference for VA and non-VA Clinicians and Administrators, October 28-30, 2004

Free SAMHSA Training Series on Mental Health Self-Direction Web-casts

The National Empowerment Center announces that Alternatives 2005, the national mental health conference organized by and for mental health consumers and survivors, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix, Arizona from October 26 to 30, 2005.


Thank you to all who submitted Alternatives Conference Proposals. The proposals are being reviewed by the Advisory Board. Notification of accepted Workshop and Institute proposals
will be sent by May 12, 2005.
 

White House New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
“We envision a future when everyone with a mental illness will recover...”

Dan Fisher addressed the Northern Ireland Mental Health Commission November, 2004

Creating a Recovery Culture in the VA (pdf)
Dr. Fisher presented to the Senior Management Conference of the VA , August 19, 2004, in Wash., DC.  

Dan Fisher addressed the Irish Republic Mental Health Commission, November, 2003 

How Consumer/Survivors can Lead the Transformation of Today’s Institutionally-based System into Tomorrow’s Recovery-based System, Judi Chamberlin and Dan Fisher, Consumer Initiatives Summit Conference, March, 2004.  

Recovery Through Recognition of the History of Consumers and Survivors


IN THE NEWS

Judi Chamberlin debates E. Fuller Torrey, MD  on Involuntary Treatment

State Mental Health Commissioners Say Seclusion and Restraint are Safety Interventions, Not Treatment Interventions
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Recovery is real and this
website is filled with practical information that will help you recover if
you have been labeled
with a mental illness

A good place to start are the following articles:

Open the door to meet members of the Recovery Consortium

Open the Door to meet the members of the Recovery Consortium.

NEC's proposed characteristics of a person who has recovered from mental illness
(revised 2/1/05)

 

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