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Tables of Contents for A Fragile Revolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
2
The research questions
3
1
A word about methodology
4
2
Some caveats
6
1
Nothing changes and no one gets better
7
16
Becoming a professional helper
8
1
What is mental illness?
9
5
Help for the patients
14
2
Nothing changes and no one gets better
16
1
Control battles
17
3
Who's in charge of the staff?
20
1
Helpless and hopeless
21
1
In conclusion
22
1
From insanity to mental illness to psychiatric disability
23
18
Insanity
23
5
Mental illness
28
4
Anti-psychiatric thought and feminist criticism
32
3
The therapeutic community
35
2
Deinstitutionalization
37
2
Psychiatric disability
39
1
In conclusion
40
1
Power and protest
41
22
Power inequity and oppression
43
6
Dominance
43
3
For your own good
46
3
Power as protest
49
11
Agency
49
3
Power as a contractual relationship
52
1
New social movements
53
5
Personal empowerment and social action
58
2
When things go wrong
60
1
In conclusion
60
3
A New power contract?
63
16
Partnership
64
2
Another group of partners
66
4
The making of policy
70
5
The forgotten partners
75
3
In conclusion
78
1
A special bond
79
30
Telling stories
79
3
Four stories
82
11
Sadly mistaken
93
3
A special bond
96
3
The personal becomes political
99
8
In conclusion
107
2
Them
109
26
Invisibility
110
2
They hate emotion
112
4
It's just a job
116
3
They are abusive
119
4
But they're more like us than they think
123
2
The system
125
8
In conclusion
133
2
Us
135
28
Getting involved
136
5
Is this a social movement
141
3
Consumer? Survivor? Consumer/survivor? Or just a person?
144
8
When some of ``us'' joined ``them''
152
4
The Ontario Psychiatric Survivors Alliance
156
5
In conclusion
161
2
Partnership
163
22
The threat and the promise of partnership
164
1
The problems with partnership
165
5
The personal costs
170
2
Feeling used
172
3
If it's not partnership, what is it?
175
4
Will mental health reform work?
179
5
In conclusion
184
1
What do consumers and survivors believe in?
185
20
It's a chicken or egg thing
187
7
What needs to change?
194
3
What are consumers and survivors going to do about it?
197
2
Disability rights
199
4
In conclusion
203
2
Final thoughts and understandings
205
14
So, what's it all about?
209
1
A legacy of violence
210
2
The power of powerless people
212
3
The powerlessness of powerful people
215
1
Things change and people get better
216
1
A political identity in search of a future
217
1
In conclusion
218
1
Postscript
219
8
Appendix I. Research methodology
227
8
Sample selection
227
1
A global view of the respondents
228
2
Data collection techniques and sources
230
1
Data analysis
231
4
References
235
14
Index
249