Quotes by neuroscientists, psychiatrists, researchers, and people who’ve come forward, in spite of the stigma, to let you know that recovery is possible. If it’s happened to you or to someone you know and love, there is hope.
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You’ll find links to the sources of the quotes and more articles below:
Eleanor Longden
http://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head.html
Rufus May
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_May
Karl Menninger
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0711-menninger.html
Edward Knight
http://csipmh.rfmh.org/Knight_recovery.htm
Judi Chamberlin
http://voices-of-recovery-schizophrenia.blogspot.ca/2008/01/judi-chamberlin-developing-recovery.html
Dr. Daniel Fisher
http://www.power2u.org/articles/recovery/healing.html
Edwin Fuller Torrey and Frederick Frese
http://www.healthyplace.com/thought-disorders/schizophrenia-articles/beautiful-but-not-rare-recovery/
John Forbes Nash
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/peopleevents/e_recovery.html
Patricia E. Deegan
https://www.patdeegan.com/pat-deegan/lectures/conspiracy-of-hope
Nancy Coover Andreasen
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb00/schizophrenia.aspx
Ronald Bassman
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb00/schizophrenia.aspx
A Special Message for Families and Friends of
Someone Diagnosed as Having Schizophrenia
by Al Siebert, PhD
http://www.successfulschizophrenia.org/articles/message.html
New hope for people with schizophrenia
A growing number of psychologists say recovery is possible with psychosocial rehabilitation.
By PATRICK A. McGUIRE, Monitor Staff, February 2000
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb00/schizophrenia.aspx
Recovery and the Conspiracy of Hope
Presented at: “There’s a Person In Here”: The Sixth Annual Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand. Brisbane, Australia
Date: September 16, 1996
Presented by: Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D.
https://www.patdeegan.com/pat-deegan/lectures/conspiracy-of-hope
John Nash’s Genius Is Extraordinary. Recovering From Schizophrenia Is Anything But.
http://www.healthyplace.com/thought-disorders/schizophrenia-articles/beautiful-but-not-rare-recovery/
Biography Menninger
http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0711-menninger.html
A Workshop on the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Written by Jack Rosberg, Ph.D.
http://www.schizophreniarecovery.net/articles/workshop.htm
The terrifying ordeal of a brilliant student who started hearing voices and then fell into the abyss of insanity
By CLAIRE CAMPBELL
Last updated 07 February 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-512716/The-terrifying-ordeal-brilliant-student-started-hearing-voices-fell-abyss-insanity.html