We've Been Too Patient
Subtitle: Voices from Radical Mental Health - Stories and Research Challenging the Bio-Medical Model
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781623173616
Subjects: Health
Description: "Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy, involuntary hospitalization, traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: 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."--Provided by the publisher.