Mark Ragins, MD is a leading psychiatrist in the recovery movement in mental health care. He is a founding member of the Village ISA, where his work with people with severe mental illness led him to become one of the leading voices in recovery-based treatment theory. He is the author of numerous writings on recovery-based mental health care and reforming mental health systems to provide recovery-based care. His full-length book, Road to Recovery is available for free online.

He is a frequent lecturer and consultant nationally and internationally as well as a trainer for psychiatric residents through the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

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's psychiatry residency. He was the co-recipient of the American Psychiatric Association

American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...

’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.

Mark Ragins also appears as a prominent character in the book The Soloist

The Soloist

The Soloist is a 2009 American/French/British drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr. The screenplay by Susannah Grant is based on the book, The Soloist by Steve Lopez...

by Steve Lopez, which was released in a movie version in 2009.

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