Mary O'Hagan publications

MARY'S WRITING AND FREE DOWNLOADS

Woman Reading by Auguste Renoir

The Reading by Auguste Renoir

You want to read work that gives you a glimpse of a new world rather than a familiar world revisited.

Mary has written a book, chapters and papers on many issues, all grounded in the perspective of lived experience. Download them for free here.

Recovery and Wellbeing

Recovery Competencies for New Zealand Mental Health Workers.

Our Lives in 2014: A recovery vision from people with mental distress.
Destination Recovery: Future responses to mental distress and loss of wellbeing.
Living Well: the New Zealand Approach to Recovery in OpenMind.
An update on recovery in Mental Health Today.
The Acute Crisis. Recovery oriented responses to people in crisis.

Mental health user/survivor perspectives

Making Sense of Madness from the Inside.

Two Accounts of Mental Distress. Mary's journal juxtaposed with her clinical notes.

The Services We Need - a description of the services people who use services want in New Zealand.

Getting the Services We Need - a systemic advocacy manual for getting the services we need.

Leadership for Empowerment and Equality. A paper on user/survivor leadership in mental health.

Peer run services
Stopovers on my Way Home from Mars: A journey into the psychiatric survivor movement in the USA, Britain and the Netherlands.
Service User Workforce Development Strategy.
Consumer Survivor Initiatives in Ontario: A Review.

Compulsory Interventions
Force in Mental Health Services: International user/survivor perspectives.
Best Practice in the Reduction/Elimination of Seclusion.

Discrimination

Let the Sunshine In. A framework for anti-discrimination work.

Mary O'Hagan is a visionary with a remarkable ability to communicate that vision and shift how we think about things. She is a creative thinker and she writes, often with humour, and always with great clarity.

Jan Dowland, Former Chair, Mental Health Commission of New Zealand.

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