Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health
Historical perspectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7799372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Blythe (0000-0001-7475-6589, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), corresponding author), Sarah Mark (0000-0002-1809-3036, Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 3-21 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09526951251392430 |
| OpenAlex | W4416368144 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Recovery and rehabilitation are highly charged terms in contemporary mental health, with their meanings and implications contested by professionals and survivors alike. A loose ‘recovery movement’ with radical reformist aims, which emerged across Britain and the United States in the later decades of the 20 th century, has, some argue, been co-opted by ‘neoliberal’ political and clinical interests. Most of these narratives begin with the emergence of the recovery movement as a result of service-user/peer activism in the 1970s: few consider the longer history of ideas and practices of recovery and rehabilitation. In turn, recovery and rehabilitation have been strangely marginal in the works of historians of psychiatry, madness, and mental health. This article traces some of the key literatures and concepts in relation to recovery and rehabilitation, and introduces this special issue of History of the Human Sciences , with contributions on Britain and the United States from the late 19 th century to the turn of the 21 st century
Recovery's Edge
From Asylum to Community
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
Psychiatry and social control in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
The opening of doors in British mental hospitals in the 1950s
How personality became treatable
The road to the asylum
The politics of recovery
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery
Material pathologies
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park
Making space for ‘THOSE Others
The Battles Over Addiction Treatment
Changes in the Asylum
The Female Malady? Men, Women and Madness in Nineteenth Century Britain
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |