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Mental Health "Recovery” Study Working Group

Mental Health “Recovery”: Users And Refusers

Released: January, 2009

Summary: Mental Health “Recovery”: Users and Refusers is the final report of a study that asked the question: what do psychiatric survivors in Toronto think about mental health “recovery”? This research recognizes the emergence of “recovery” as the new “talk” of community mental health
services not just here but in the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. It addresses the fact that amidst a surge of “recovery” related research there are few critical voices especially from the people “recovery” promises to “heal” and “help.”

 

 

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.