num_pages: 264
description: 25 unflinching stories and essays from the front lines of the radical mental health movement Overmedication police brutality electroconvulsive therapy involuntary hospitalization traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal these are the struggles of those labeled mentally ill. While much has been written about the systemic problems of our mental-health care system this book gives voice to those with personal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion like people of color and LGBTQ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternatives to the Mental Health Industrial Complex and shifting the conversation from mental illness to mental health.
language: English
title: We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health--Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model
publisher: North Atlantic Books