Main description:

* The volume provides evidences of recovery and studies barriers to recovery from psychosis
* Is a first book on mad studies by a single author
* It offers interdisciplinary research-based insights to trigger discussions about issues around schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or mental health.
* Will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of psychology, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, mad studies and disability studies across UK and US. It will also be useful for academicians, psych professionals, mental health professionals, counsellors, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and those interested in mad studies.

Contents:

1. Realities and Representations 2. Who Speaks for Whom and Why it Matters 3. Among Peers: The Place Where One is 'Home' 4. Benign Arm of Psychiatry and Birth of the Psychiatric Subject 5. Making the Transient Permanent - How Law Disables 'Recovery' 6. from Subject to Agent: What it Takes to 'Recover' 7. Possible Futures and Removing Barriers