Redesigning Mental Illness: Reformers

Apr 24, 2012

Reformers

Our most powerful mental health reformers were ordinary people.

Dorothea Dix taught poor and neglected children.

Clifford W. Beers wrote about his own experiences as an inmate in a psychiatric asylum.

Who will be today's reformers?

2 comments:

Phoenix Tattoo said...: We are!

I love your site and dedication to healing. Very inspiring. I also find it pretty kismet that we both started our blogs in April of 2012...; January 8, 2013 at 12:22 PM
Phoenix Tattoo said...: We are!

Love the site and your dedication to healing.

Strange side note: we both started our blogs in April of 2012...; January 8, 2013 at 12:23 PM

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About Paul Komarek

Paul Komarek is an author and consultant with a comeback story. After bipolar disorder wiped out his legal career, Paul rebuilt his life around his strengths as a writer, teacher and policy expert. He works on tough social issues, including criminal justice reform, education of children with disabilities, violence prevention, addiction treatment, and health care for the poor. Paul’s book Defying Mental Illness, Finding Recovery with Community Resources and Family Support (ISBN 978-1494786441) is the first book for general audiences to focus on mental health recovery, not how to have your disease. He is working on two blog projects. Redesigning Mental Illness focuses on what ordinary people can do to fundamentally change how mental illness plays out in America. Grassroots Educator focuses on teachers in community settings, the ones who never issue report cards.