Surviving mental illness : stress, coping, and adaptation

Title
  1. Surviving mental illness : stress, coping, and adaptation / Agnes B. Hatfield, Harriet P. Lefley ; foreword by John S. Strauss.
Published by
  1. New York : Guilford Press, [1993]
  2. ©1993
Author
  1. Hatfield, Agnes B.

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Additional authors
  1. Lefley, Harriet P.
Description
  1. xiii, 206 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Social psychiatry
  2. Adjustment (Psychology)
  3. Chronically ill > Attitudes
  4. Mentally ill > Attitudes
  5. Mental illness
Contents
  1. The personal side of mental illness -- A conceptual basis for understanding patients' behavior : the case of schizophrenia -- Disturbances in the sense of self -- Disturbances in cognition -- Disturbances in emotions, relationships, and behaviors -- Cruising the cosmos, part three: Psychosis and hospitalization-- a consumer's personal recollection / Frederick J. Frese, III -- Patients' perceptions of families -- Patients' perceptions of professionals and the service provider system -- Community acceptance and self-perception -- The interpersonal environment-- a consumer's personal recollection / Esso Leete -- Events leading to recovery -- Developing an acceptable identity and new purposes in life -- Learning to manage the illness and avoid relapse -- Life on the ledge : my recovery from a major mental illness-- a consumer's personal recollection / Daniel Link -- Summary, conclusions, and implications.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.