Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness

<p>Quality social interaction can be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. Based on in-depth interviews with clients with severe mental illness this volume explores which structures of interaction encourage growth for people with severe mental illness and which trigger psychological damage. It focuses specifically on how structures of social interaction can promote or harm psychological growth and how interaction dynamics affect the psychological well-being of individuals with severe mental illness.</p>