Patricia Deegan
Patricia E. Deegan is a disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher living in the United States. She is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement and is an international speaker and trainer in the field of mental health. Deegan also co-founded M-POWER.. She created CommonGround, “a web application to support shared decision making in the psychopharmacology consultation.”Personal Life
Deegan was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager. She credits her grandmother with putting her on the road to recovery.Academia
Deegan received her B.S. from Fitchburg State College in 1977 and her PhD in clinical psychology from Duquesne University in 1984. 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.Awards
