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RECOVERY IS REAL CONTINUED
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..Philippe Pinel wrote his “Treaties, Traite’ me’dico-philosophique surl’alie’nation mentale” and stated that mental illness occurred because “of the shocks of life—disappointed love, business failures, and the blows of poverty” (Whitaker, 2002). Moral Treatment was based upon the kind treatment of people. They were given good food, time to work in the gardens, space, and treated to music through artists that were often brought into the hospitals in which they received care. Additionally, libraries and poetry were seen as highly therapeutic for people (Whitaker, 2002).
In those days people recovered from mental illness at rates of 60-80%. It might seem that somehow the illness has changed over the years to one that cannot be expected to be cured. However, Courtenay Harding and many others studied the rate of recovery among people with schizophrenia (Harding, 1987; Bleuler, 1972; Huber, 1975; Ciompi & Muller, 1976; Tsuang, 1979; Ogawa, 1987; DeSisto, 1995) and in all these studies from around the world, the findings were the same, people recover from mental illness at a rate of 59% to 69%. Even a diagnosis of Schizophrenia is something that people can recover from. So there is lots of reason to hope.
Hope is a vital part of the recovery process. In fact, Lori Ashcraft, Ph.D. (2008) said in a speech in New Zealand, that our job as people providing services and support to individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses, was not so much to treat them, but rather to “inspire hope that things could get better, that things would improve, and they would be able to live a full and satisfying life.”
Recovery Innovations has identified “Five Recovery Pathways.” These pathways are things that the people we serve have identified as helpful to them in the process of recovery. The “Recovery Pathways (Ashcraft & Johnson, 2005)” are HOPE, CHOICE, EMPOWERMENT, RECOVERY CULTURE, and SPIRITUALITY/MEANING & PURPOSE.
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