Institutional Rubber Stamps
There are small museums, all over the world, detailing the history of asylums. Throughout the...
The First Slave Admitted to the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum
In the 1990s, I did a lot of primary source research about the history of mental health care in...
Peer Staff as Disruptive Innovators
There is a tension at the heart of our work as peer staff. It is the tension between Love and...
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....
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. Our 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.
