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Is there a science of recovery and does it matter?

INVITED COMMENTARY ON... RECOVERY AND THE MEDICAL MODEL

Frank Holloway is a consultant psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Croydon Integrated Adult Mental Health Service (Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX, UK. Email: f.holloway{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk). He is Chair of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His clinical and research interests include rehabilitation, mental health services and mental health law.

In this issue of APT Mountain & Shah seek to reconcile the currently fashionable ‘recovery’ paradigm of mental healthcare with the distinctly unfashionable ‘medical model’ of psychiatric practice. I argue that their article raises more questions than it answers – not least whether the recovery concept is amenable to empirical analysis.

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Recovery and the medical model

Deborah Mountain and Premal J. Shah
APT 2008 14: 241-244. [Abstract] [Full Text]