Patricia Deegan

Patricia E. Deegan is an American disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States."[1] Deegan is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement (a cofounder of the National Empowerment Center)[2] and is an international speaker and trainer in the field of mental health.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Patricia Deegan, giving a workshop in Israel, 2019

Deegan co-founded M-POWER (Massachusetts People/Patients Organized for Wellness, Empowerment and Rights)[2] and created CommonGround, “a web application to support shared decision making in the psychopharmacology consultation.”[10]

Personal life

Deegan was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager.[10] She credits her grandmother with putting her on the road to recovery.[11]

Academia

Deegan received her B.S. from Fitchburg State College in 1977 and her PhD in clinical psychology from Duquesne University in 1984.[12] Her dissertation titled "The use of diazepam in an effort to transform being anxious: An empirical phenomenological investigation"[13] was conducted under the supervision of William F. Fischer. Deegan is a phenomenological psychologist,[14] whose writings include rich autobiographical accounts of her experience living with schizophrenia, and emphasize that recovery from serious mental illness is possible.[15]

As of 2010, she is an adjunct professor at the Dartmouth College Medical School, Department of Community and Family Medicine and the Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.[12][16]

Awards
  • 2017 International Association of Peer Supporters Steve Harrington Award[17]
  • 2015 Wayne Fenton Award for Exceptional Clinical Care[18]
  • 2013 APA Gold Award: Amplifying the Voices of Individuals Who Use Mental Health Services: A Commitment to Shared Decision Making[19]
  • 2013 Scattergood Foundation Innovation Award[20]
  • 2013 New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) Lifetime Achievement Award[21]
  • 2010 Patient Empowerment by the Ashoka Changemakers Foundation finalist in the international competition[22]
  • 2010 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recognition as a practice innovation[22]

Representative publications
  • Deegan, Patricia E. (April 1988). "Recovery: The lived experience of rehabilitation". Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal. 11 (4): 11–19. doi:10.1037/h0099565.
  • Deegan, Patricia E (April 1993). "Recovering Our Sense of Value After Being Labeled: Mentally Ill". Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services. 31 (4): 7–9. doi:10.3928/0279-3695-19930401-06. PMID 8487230.
  • Deegan, Patricia (1996). "Recovery as a journey of the heart". Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 19 (3): 91–97. doi:10.1037/h0101301.
  • Deegan, Patricia E. (17 October 1997). "Recovery and Empowerment for People with Psychiatric Disabilities". Social Work in Health Care. 25 (3): 11–24. doi:10.1300/J010v25n03_02. PMID 9358596.
  • Deegan, Patricia E. (14 September 2002). "Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation". Occupational Therapy in Mental Health. 17 (3–4): 5–21. doi:10.1300/J004v17n03_02. S2CID 143974664.

See also

References
  1. Davidson, Larry; Stayner, David (1997). "Loss, loneliness, and the desire for love: Perspectives on the social lives of people with schizophrenia". Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 20 (3): 3–12. doi:10.1037/h0095369.
  2. "Patricia Deegan, Ph.D. Director of Training and Education National Empowerment Center". NARPA. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  3. "Patricia Deegan: Prophet and Practitioner of Recovery". Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  4. "Edge of Sanity". This American Life. Episode 52. 31 January 1997. 17:27 minutes in.
  5. Knich, Diane (9 April 2002). "Hearing the Voices" (fee required). The Washington Post.
  6. Boodman, Sandra G. (12 February 2002). "'Beautiful' -- but Not Rare -- Recovery" (fee required). The Washington Post.
  7. Ragsdale, Kathie Neff (12 December 1999). "Once haunted, now they help fight for the mentally ill". The Eagle-Tribune.
  8. Ferreira da Costa, Joana (9 November 1999). "Tinha 18 anos e neguei a esquizofrenia". Terca Feira.
  9. Frese, Frederick J.; Knight, Edward L.; Saks, Elyn (March 2009). "Recovery From Schizophrenia: With Views of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Others Diagnosed With This Disorder". Schizophrenia Bulletin. 35 (2): 370–380. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbn175. PMC 2659312. PMID 19304812.
  10. Deegan, Pat. "Recovery: The Lived Experience of Rehabilitation" (PDF). NAMI. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  11. Deegan, Pat. "Recovery as a Self-Directed Process of Healing and Transformation" (PDF). Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  12. "Patricia E. Deegan, Ph.D. - Institute for the Study of Human Resilience". Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  13. Deegan, Patricia E. (1983). The use of diazepam in an effort to transform being anxious: an empirical phenomenological investigation (Thesis). OCLC 29764975. ProQuest 303146408.
  14. Davidson, Larry (2004). "Phenomenology and Contemporary Clinical Practice: Introduction to Special Issue". Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. 35 (2): 149–162. doi:10.1163/1569162042652218.
  15. Jones, James (21 May 2015). "'High Functioning': Successful Professionals with Severe Mental Illness". Duke Forum for Law & Social Change. 7 (1): 1–35. SSRN 2614659.
  16. "Dartmouth Medical School - Faculty Database". Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  17. "Must Read: Pat Deegan on Putting the Human Back in the Human Services". NYAPRS. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  18. Dixon, Lisa (September 2015). "2015 Wayne Fenton Award for Exceptional Clinical Care". Schizophrenia Bulletin. 41 (5): 999–1000. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbv081. PMC 4535647. PMID 26108867.
  19. "2013 APA Gold Award: Amplifying the Voices of Individuals Who Use Mental Health Services: A Commitment to Shared Decision Making: Decision Support Centers, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania". Psychiatric Services. 64 (10): e7–e9. October 2013. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.641112. PMID 24081423.
  20. "2013 Innovation Award | Scattergood Foundation". 2015-07-24. Archived from the original on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  21. "New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Inc". 2015-07-24. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
  22. "About Pat". www.commongroundprogram.com. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
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