Section 2: Recovery
I chose to retire only from clinical psychiatry and not retire from giving trainings, workshops, consultations, supervision and mentoring primarily because I still believe that the Recovery Model is vastly better than the current model both for the people we serve and for our staff. Since I have a lifetime of recovery conceptualizations, stories, and strategies, I feel I should continue to actively promote recovery. The three long articles “The Recovery Model”, “The Mental Health Story That None of Us Know, But We So Badly Need”, and “Recovery Based Psychiatry” are some of my most complete, “mature”, writings about recovery.
Medications with Meaning:
Becoming Effective with Medications and People with Psychosis (2020) Excerpts from my book that focus on medications and psychosis.
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The Recovery Model (2021)
written with Charlene Sunkel (Global Mental Health Peer Network) This is my most comprehensive, multidimensional, international writing about recovery, and although long, provides a true overview of the Recovery Model. It was published as a psychiatric textbook chapter in 2024.
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Perspectives From an Aging Revolutionary (2024) Why has the recovery revolution struggled and is there hope moving forwards anyway?
Recovery Promotion Top 10 List (2024) Common obstacles to promoting and sustaining recovery and “10 audacious, strategic attacks” to overcome them
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The Mental Health Story That None of Us Know, But We So Badly Need (2024)
Enough of the deinstitutionalization and medical model narratives that are wrong and holding us back. Here’s a long description of why they’re wrong, how they’re holding us back, and what to do instead.
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Recovery Based Psychiatry (2024)
A strong practical clinical overview for psychiatrists and other prescribers including both a description of the Recovery Model and recovery programs and how they can benefit people as well as how to change prescribing practices to fit in with these programs and promote recovery as a psychiatrist.
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Suicide Prevention in Recovery Practice (2025)
A set of suicide prevention strategies that emerge from applying the three recovery transformations (person-centered, client-driven, and strengths-based) including a triage based on motivational interviewing stages.