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An Empowerment
Model of Recovery From Severe Mental Illness:
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An Expert
Interview With Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD
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Editor's Note: Randall White, MD,
interviewed Daniel B. Fisher, MD,
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PhD, Executive
Director of the National Empowerment Center in
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Lawrence,
Massachusetts.
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Medscape:
In your publication "Personal Assistance in Community
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Existence: A
Recovery Guide," you write that the recovery model
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emphasizes that
emotional distress is a temporary disruption in
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life.[1] Can you
elaborate?
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Dr. Fisher:
The most important finding in our research is that
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people who have
shown significant or complete recovery from
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severe mental
illness - - by that I mean schizophrenia, bipolar
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disorder, or
schizoaffective disorder -- have cited hope as an
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extraordinarily
important component in their recovery. Part of the
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recovery was
being around people who saw their condition as not
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permanent, a
condition from which they could take increasing
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control of their
life and reestablish a place in society.
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