Open AccessVeterans in an unnamed war: Hidden abuse, truth-telling, resistance and recovery
Author(s) -
Laura Prescott
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
temida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0941
pISSN - 1450-6637
DOI - 10.2298/tem0402013p
Subject(s) - miami , witness , sister , resistance (ecology) , convention , criminology , psychiatry , psychology , mental health , political science , law , ecology , environmental science , soil science , biology
The author is the president and founder of Sister Witness International Inc a new organization of formerly institutionalized women, girls, and their allies. She is also a recovering addict, psychiatric expatient, and survivor of childhood abuse. The article is an edited version of a keynote address given at the 2nd annual convention of the International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses in Miami, Florida, on April 28, 2000