Recovery from Disability provides an intellectual foundation, an operational framework, and practical tools for making recovery real in the lives of our patients. It builds on Dr. Liberman's previous work and illustrates the power of an idea whose time has certainly come. Marvin J. Southard, D.S.W., Director, Department of Mental Health, County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California I really enjoyed reading through the book. Dr. Liberman have done a tremendous job in encapsulating the philosophy of Psychiatric rehabilitation and presenting it in a way that facilitates its integration with state f the art care for patients with a broad range of serious mental disorders. Too often, the field of psychiatric rehabilitation finds itself feeling at odds with other psychiatric approaches and your book clearly integrates psychiatric rehabilitation with a comprehensive model of patient centered care. It has also been difficult for the filed to articulate how to resolve the tensions that exist between" the recovery movement" and main stream psychiatry. Dr. Liberman have done an excellent job in bringing the issues to the fore and showing us a way forward in resolving these tensions. I will most certainly strongly recommend the book to my colleagues and students. Robert B. Zipursky, M.D., FRCPC, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatric & Behavioral Neurosciences, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University Recovery from Disability is a valuable, practical, and comprehensive guide for mental health professionals. Dr. Liberman's visionary combination of humanism and empiricism offers a beacon of hope to clinicians, patients with serious psychiatric disorders, and their families. It is destined to become a classic in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation. Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D., Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center; Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire