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title	:	A Fragile Revolution : Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Confront the Power of the Mental Health System
author	:	Everett, Barbara.
publisher	:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0889203423
print isbn13	:	9780889203426
ebook isbn13	:	9780585325903
language	:	English
subject	Ex-mental patients--Ontario--Political activity, Mental health planning--Ontario--Citizen participation, Mental health policy--Ontario.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	RA790.7.C3.E934 2000eb
ddc	:	362.2/09713
subject	:	Ex-mental patients--Ontario--Political activity, Mental health planning--Ontario--Citizen participation, Mental health policy--Ontario.

Page iii A Fragile Revolution Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Confront the Power of the Mental Health System Barbara Everett

Page iv This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Everett, Barbara, 1949 A fragile revolution : consumers and psychiatric survivors confront the power of the mental health system Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88920-342-3 I. Ex-mental patientsOntarioPolitical activity. 2. Health care reform OntarioCitizen participation. 3. Mental health planningOntario Citizen participation. 4. Mental health policyOntario. I. Title. RA790.7.C3E934 2000 362.2'09713 C99-932342-3 2000 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 Cover art: Playtime, a monoprint by Gloria Kagawa, reproduced courtesy of the artist. (View this and other works at http://www.gloriakagawa.com .) Cover design by Leslie Macredie Printed in Canada All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any meansgraphic, electronic or mechanicalwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. Any request for photocopying, recording, taping or reproducing in information storage and retrieval systems of any part of this book shall be directed in writing to the Canadian Reprography Collective, 214 King Street West, Suite 312, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3S6.

Page v To my dear son, Matthew Ferguson

Page vii Contents Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 The Research Questions 3 A Word about Methodology 4 Some Caveats 6 Chapter 1. Nothing Changes and No One Gets Better 7 Becoming a Professional Helper 8 What is Mental Illness? 9 Help for the Patients 14 Nothing Changes and No One Gets Better 16 Control Battles 17 Who's in Charge of the Staff? 20 Helpless and Hopeless 21 In Conclusion 22 2. From Insanity to Mental Illness to Psychiatric Disability 23

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