Surviving Mental Illness: Stress, Coping, and Adaptation

Abstract

The Personal Side of Mental Illness. A Conceptual Basis for Understanding Patients' Behavior: The Case of Schizophrenia. HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE PSYCHOSIS. Disturbances of the Self. Disturbances in Cognition. Disturbances in Emotions, Relationships, and Behaviors. Cruising the Cosmos, Part Three: Psychosis and Hospitalization - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Frederick J. Frese, III, Ph.D.HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE THE INTERPERSONAL ENVIRONMENT. Patients' Perceptions of Families. Patients' Perceptions of Professional and the Service Provider System. Community Acceptance and Self-Perception. The Interpersonal Environment - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Esso Leete. HOW PATIENTS EXPERIENCE THE RECOVERY PROCESS. Events Leading to Recovery. Developing and Acceptable Identity and New Purposes in Life. Learning How to Manage the Illness and Avoid Relapse. Life on the Ledge: My Recovery from a Major Mental Illness - A Consumer's Personal Recollection, Daniel Link, M.S.W. LESSONS LEARNED FROM CONSUMERS. 15. Summary, Conclusions, and Implications. References. Index.