The Reality of Recovery in Personality Disorder

A highly readable account of an innovative, person-centred, community-based approach to recovery from personality disorder, this book presents new and better ways of supporting people through the process. Documented experiences and first-hand accounts from The Haven Project prove the success of the project's method.

Drawing on the experience of The Haven Project, this book maps the journey of recovery for people diagnosed with personality disorder. Based on a service-user focused research study on work at The Haven, this book looks at the project''s responses to shortcomings in the care and treatment of people diagnosed with personality disorder, a group that suffers from significant social exclusion. The author presents a whole-service approach to helping people recover from this diagnosis, and examines efforts to reverse social exclusion. With first-hand accounts from service users providing insights into the need for community-based care, the book proves that hospitalisation is not a prerequisite for the treatment of personality disorders. Presenting a new way forward for the treatment of people diagnosed with personality disorder, this book is essential reading for a wide range of mental health professionals, especially front-line workers, managers, service commissioners, personality disorder researchers, as well as people diagnosed with personality disorder and their family members.