Thursday, February 2, 2012

Insight

From the Recovery to Practice newsletter comes this article by Dr. Gina Duncan, a Georgia-based psychiatrist. 

She argues for a possibilities-based focus to the interactions between mental health professionals and their consumers.

In it she writes, in part
As providers, we all too often focus on the complete eradication of symptoms, to the point of excluding other elements of well-being. But it is critical to remember recovery can occur in the illness, not just from the illness—something both the person and the practitioner should know.