Recent Writings
In 2024 I left the street medicine team and retired from clinical work. However, I am still regularly involved with trainings and workshops, with supervision and mentoring the next generation, and with advocacy especially for recovery-based mental health services.
My Personal Transformation is about my personal experiences as I transformed into a recovery-based psychiatrist. The most complete piece is the “Rehabilitation Psychiatry” paper. Even though I’d never heard of recovery when I wrote it, I was well on my way. Read Articles Here >>
Creating a Recovery Vision is where I’m coming to terms with the concepts around recovery and putting them together so that I understood why what we were doing was working. It contains the heart of my work, the “A Road to Recovery.” It’s my “signature” lecture and contains most of my best stories. We’ve sold or given away hundreds of copies of it as a small book. It’s even been translated into Japanese. In my opinion, its “Kubler-Ross style” four stages of recovery formulation is still my major contribution to making recovery understandable. If you’re going to skip around, you probably want to start with it. This Chapter also contains articles where I’m trying to demystify recovery and make it more accessible to typical professional audiences. Read Articles Here >>
Applying Recovery to Daily Challenges is a whole variety of writings applying my understanding of recovery to challenges in my daily work. In my view, for a model to be useful, it should be able to lead us to successful approaches to challenges we didn’t anticipate when we put together the model. The recovery model hasn’t let me down yet. You get the most papers on issues that focus on what I worked on, most notably substance abuse, homelessness, and psychiatrists. Read Articles Here >>