Behind the Rhetoric
Mental Health Recovery in Ontario
Published on 29. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-55266-417-9 (ISBN)
Description
Recovery has taken the mental health world by storm. In clinics, hospitals, community organizations and governments across North America and Europe, recovery rhetoric is everywhere. Its message of hope is catchy, its promise of wellness long overdue and its claims (somewhat) substantiated. But where did this new vision for mental health come from and what does it really mean for a system long unbalanced? Focusing on Ontario's mental health communities, the book is the first to take a critical look at recovery's talk and texts. Using Foucault's analyses of discourse, it is also the first to go behind recovery's rhetoric of hope and responsibility, re-theorizing mental health recovery in Canada.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight
198 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55266-417-9 (9781552664179)
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Person
Jennifer (Jen) Poole (she/her) is a white settler from England living in Tkaronto, the traditional territory of the the Petun, the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabeg, the Metis, and the Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish with One Spoon wampum, the Williams Treaties, and Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. Poole is a long-time community peer supporter and full professor in the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University. With a love of teaching/learning and a life shaped by madness and grief, Jen's work is concerned with sanism(s), loss, pedagogies, and interrupting colonialism and white supremacy.
Content
: Introduction
: Research, Writing and Rhetoric on Recovery
: Making the Familiar Strange: Turning to Foucault to Re-think Recovery
: Sifting through the Results: Behind the Rhetoric of Hope
: But Doesn't Everyone Love Recovery? Disagreements and Debates
: Back to Foucault: Re-theorizing Recovery
: Conclusions
: Bibliography
: Research, Writing and Rhetoric on Recovery
: Making the Familiar Strange: Turning to Foucault to Re-think Recovery
: Sifting through the Results: Behind the Rhetoric of Hope
: But Doesn't Everyone Love Recovery? Disagreements and Debates
: Back to Foucault: Re-theorizing Recovery
: Conclusions
: Bibliography