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25 unflinching stories and essays from the front linesof the radical mental health movement

Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy,involuntary hospitalization,traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are thestruggles of those labeled ?mentally ill.? While much has been written about the systemicproblems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those withpersonal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, likepeople of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternativesto the ?Mental Health Industrial Complex? and shifting the conversation frommental illness to mental health.

We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical

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      Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.
      Published 9 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9781623173616
      978-1623173616
      ISBN-10 1623173612
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      25 unflinching stories and essays from the front linesof the radical mental health movement

      Overmedication, police brutality, electroconvulsive therapy,involuntary hospitalization,traumas that lead to intense altered states and suicidal thoughts: these are thestruggles of those labeled ?mentally ill.? While much has been written about the systemicproblems of our mental-health care system, this book gives voice to those withpersonal experience of psychiatric miscare often excluded from the discussion, likepeople of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It is dedicated to finding working alternativesto the ?Mental Health Industrial Complex? and shifting the conversation frommental illness to mental health.

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