The book provides a clear and comprehensive description of both personal and clinical recovery in severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia and related disorders, and mood disorders such as major depression and bipolar disorders. Divided into two main parts: recovery in schizophrenia and related disorders, and recovery in mood disorders, it offers a broad overview of the factors associated with better or worse outcomes in terms of recovery, as well as the rates (how many people affected by mental disorders may gain recovery), and the time course (how long people affected by mental disorders take to recover) of recovery. It also discusses in detail the pharmacological and psychosocial interventions that can be considered recovery-oriented. Covering the main aspects of recovery in major mental disorders, the book is intended for professionals, scholars, students and anyone interested in mental health.

Part 1. Recovery in schizophrenia and related disorders

1. Dimensions and Course of Clinical Recovery in Schizophrenia and related disorders
2. Determinants of clinical recovery in schizophrenia
3. Personal recovery in Schizophrenia: a narrative review
4. Personal Recovery within forensic settings
5. Stigma And Attitude Towards Personal Recovery From Mental Illness Amongst Italian Mental Health Professionals
6. Psychosocial Recovery-Oriented Interventions In Schizophrenia
7. Recovery from Psychosis: Emerging definitions, research and select clinical application
8. Treatments and recovery to enhance employment outcomes for people with schizophrenia and other major mental disorders: An innovative clinical and organizational model of work inclusion in Milan and surrounding area
9. Recovery oriented psychopharmacological interventions in Schizophrenia
Part 2. Recovery in mood disorders
10. Predictors of clinical recovery in bipolar disorders
11. Psychosocial recovery-oriented treatments in Bipolar Disorders
12. Psychopharmacological recovery-oriented treatments in Bipolar Disorders
13. Dimensions and predictors of personal recovery in Major Depression
14. Recovery-oriented treatments in major depressive disorder.