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Even as mental-health discussions become more common in everyday life, the enormous numbers of people with psychiatric illness in jails, prisons, or experiencing homelessness suggest there is still a major disconnect between knowing what needs to be done for people with psychiatric challenges and doing it. Fighting for Recovery demands that we dismantle programs built on flawed and outdated assumptions and provide services that broaden the focus of treatment beyond psychopharmacology, allowing for a recovery journey. Fighting for Recovery tells the history of the former psychiatric patients, families, and courageous activists within government and psychiatry who rebelled against inhumane and outdated treatments and policies. Research confirmed in time what the activists had long maintained: ex-patients helping one another to resume successful community living was the most successful model. Taken together, the accumulation of three thousand scientific studies led a surgeon general to conclude that recovery was possible. Despite these advances, there is still much crucial to be done in the mental healthcare reform space, and Fighting for Recovery examines the movement continuing to present day--an essential history that will prove to listeners just how essential mental-health activism is to every person in this country, whether you have a current psychiatric diagnosis or not.