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RECOVERY’S

EDGE

an ethnography of

and moral agency

mental health care

Neely Laurenzo Myers

“Choice, moral agency, empowerment, ‘patient-centered’ care,

user-run services, peer staff, recoveries! All so easily envisioned

on paper, in mental health policies, and at conferences. As

Myers shows us, doing the work to make these ideas happen

in daily life is inestimably trying, unpredictable, unruly, and

tumultuous for all concerned.”

—Sue E. Estroff, University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill, author of

Making It Crazy: An Ethnography of

Psychiatric Clients in an American Community

“Well written and morally compelling, this rich ethnography

details both the new promise of recovery from schizophrenia

and its pitfalls in an American context. In the process, it

explains how the experience of schizophrenia is shaped for so

many by American values of individualism, independence, and

work.”

—Tanya M. Luhrmann, Stanford University, author of

Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry

“In public mental health, no term is more troubled and unsettled

than recovery—and with the onset of ‘managed behavioral care’

matters are likely to get worse. But one of its versions, in one

of its trial stagings, has been graced with an attentive chronicler.

Neely Myers has captured the thrilling promise, rampant

misunderstandings, mundane messiness, and institutional

inertia occasioned (or exposed) by recovery. . . . This is public-

interest ethnography with head and heart fiercely engaged.”

—Kim Hopper, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric

Research, author of

Reckoning with Homelessness

RECOVERY’S EDGE