Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy (Paperback)

by Richard Warner (Author)
Key Phrases: social recovery rates, social psychiatry revolution, outcome from schizophrenia, Third World, United States, New York (more...)

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As a resource base of evidence to support the principles and practice of recovery, get this book and use it. - Catherine Jackson in Mental Health Today, May 2004

The book is not just about an American viewpoint. NHS expenditure on schizophrenia is examined, and the author has collaborated with many others, including a British university specialist... it is something of a how to book for mental health professionals, but also an everything you wanted to know book for the general reader. - Bel Crawford, Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2004

Product Description
How do political, economic, and labor market forces shape social responses to the mentally ill, and influence the onset and course of one of the most common forms of mental illness? In this revised and updated third edition, Dr. Warner analyzes the latest research and tells us whether conditions and outcome for people with schizophrenia are getting better or worse.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415212677
• ISBN-13: 978-0415212670
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #980,680 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A neglected contribution, December 7, 1999

By	Richard Lichtman "rlichtman" (The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy (Paperback)

(I have not yet read the second edition of this book but it is reasonable to assume that it is an updated version of the first edition, which is the book I am referring to.) This is an extraordinary book which reviews the entired field of social structure and mental illness. (In fact my only objection to the book is the title, which suggests a far narrower field than is actually covered in the work.) Warner seems to have read all the relevant literature and has the distinct advantage of being able to place studies of mental health in a social, historical and cross-cultural context. His analysis is thorough and creative and he makes a very persuasive case that the predominant causes of mental illness, including schizophrenia, are more deeply rooted in the social system than the myopic, insulated views of most psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists can envision. His arguments against the "social drift" hypothesis and other self serving illusions of contemporary psychotherapeutica reaserch are extremely important. His willingness to incorporate insights from a variety of social thinker, including Marx (yet, that Marx) give the book a deep analyitic resonance. It is not accidental that this book is not widely known for it does not fit easily into the reified bioligical accounts of mental illness that have been playing havoc with the field for the last 25 years or so.