Emancipatory Technologies
I created CommonGround to amplify people's voice in the 15-minute psychiatric medication...
Loneliness: A Call to Generosity
Like many people, I experienced periods of intense loneliness during my recovery after being...
Howie the Harp
I just finished filming recovery videos in New York City last week. We shot about 36 videos of...
The Promise and Peril of EMRs
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are evolving rapidly and in the U.S. the federal stimulus is...
Courage and Recovery
When I talk about my recovery, people sometimes tell me I must have a lot of courage. However, if...
The Politics of Memory
I created the Politics of Memory for consumers/survivors who are, or who would like to be,...
Strengths Based Care & Recovery
When I was still a teenager, I was admitted for a second time to a psychiatric institution....
From Numbers to Names
Here is a 15-minute documentary about state hospital cemetery restoration. It's called, From...
Personal Medicine and the Healer Within
Imagine that you have a broken leg. You go to the hospital and a doctor sets the broken bone and...
Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Movement and Shared Decision Making
Some people argue that shared decision making is not consistent with the principles of choice and...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
