title: Calculated risk-taking and other recovery processes for my psychiatric disability.
abstract: In his new book, Living Outside Mental Illness: Qualitative Studies of Recovery from Schizophrenia, Larry Davidson, PhD, has opened up a very important arena for consumers writing of their recoveries. While consumers have written of recovery as an experience, an attitude and a vision, they have not reported the actual processes of how they got there, according to Professor Davidson (Davidson, 2003). In this article, I would like to begin to bridge that gap Professor Davidson has pointed out by describing three methods and strategies that have been crucial for building a new life for myself in recovery.
authors.affiliation: Southwest Connecticut Mental Health System in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Rweingarten@snet.net
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weingarten
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001325:Autobiographies as Topic; D001364:Awareness; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D011936:Reality Testing; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012803:Sick Role; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications