Voices from the Ground Up: The Use of Narrative in Understanding Recovery from Serious Mental Illness

Empowering Settings and Voices for Social Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Salem, Deborah ^a  

^a TMI Research Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Julian Rappaport; Mental illness; Narrative approach; Schizophrenics anonymous; Social science research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380576.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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