Mark Ragins

Mark Ragins is an American psychiatrist in the recovery movement in mental health care.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Ragins is a founding member of the Village ISA, where his work with people with severe mental illness made him a leading voices in recovery-based treatment theory. He is an international lecturer and a trainer for psychiatric residents through the University of Southern California's psychiatry residency.^[5]

Ragins is the author of numerous writings on recovery-based mental health care and reforming mental health systems to provide recovery-based care.^[6] In 2010, he published book, Road to Recovery.^[6] Ragins appears as a character in the book The Soloist by Steve Lopez, which was released in a movie version in 2009.^[7] In 2021, he published the book, Journeys Beyond the Frontier: A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis and Other Extraordinary Experiences.^[8][9]

His work advises that psychiatric drugs are overprescribed,^[10] that community engagement is a critical part of recovery from mental illness,^[11][12] and that psychosis results from changes in how a person experiences reality, relationships, and self-identity.^[13] He uses a humanistic and rehabilitative approach to psychiatry.^[14][15]

Ragins was the co-recipient of the American Psychiatric Association’s 1995 van Ameringen Award for his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatric rehabilitation and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2006 for his continuing work in recovery-based mental health care. He received the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association's John Beard Lifetime achievement award in 2011.^[3]

References

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3. "Mark Ragins receives USPRA's lifetime achievement award". Retrieved 2012-09-12.
4. Levin, Aaron (2010). "Moving to Recovery Model Called 'Marathon, not a Sprint'". Psychiatric News. 45 (2): 6–17. doi:10.1176/pn.45.2.psychnews_45_2_007.
5. Lopez, Steve (2005-05-25). "It Can Take a Village to Help the Mentally Ill". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
6. . Village-isa.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
7. Courtois, Christine A. (2008). The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (9780399155062): Steve Lopez: Books. ISBN 978-0399155062.
8. "Journeys Beyond the Frontier : A Rebellious Guide to Ps…". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
9. "How We Can Improve our Approach to Treating Psychosis | NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness". nami.org. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
10. "Rx For Disaster: How My Mother Died In A Psych Ward". Newsweek. 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
11. "Developing Systems and Services that Support People in Wellness and Recovery" (PDF). California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies. 2007.
12. "'The Four Stages of Recovery'". Recovery Stories. 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
13. "Creating a Psychosis Formulation: Describing the Journey You're On" (PDF). Psychosis Formulations: 4.
14. Linden, Meredith (2023). "Dismantling a Diagnosis: Deeper Voices that Re-Vision Categories". Pacifica Graduate Institute ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
15. "Recovery: Changing From A Medical Model To A Psychosocial Rehabilitation Mode". Empowerment Zone.