Table of Contents
Foreword Robert Whitaker ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Editors' Introduction Kelechi Ubozoh L. D. Green 1
Part 1 Narrative as a Radical Healing Strategy: Personal Stories of Lived Experience with Mental Health
Dear DR Leah Harris 11
To Call Myself Beloved Leah Harris 15
Can't We Just Pray it Away? Faith Communities and Their Role in Mental Health Support Jeneé Darden 23
Untitled Chris Anastasia 29
Unfrozen Lyndsey Ellis 35
How to Tame a Flying Dragon Anita Roman 39
How My Friends Showed Up: Mutual Aid Kelechi Ubozoh 49
We've Been Too Patient: How Mutual Aid Can Improve Therapy and Transform Society L. D. Green 51
Who Do You Think You Are? Shizue Seigel 61
ECT: Day One Alice Mignon 73
For Psychiatric Survivors, Friends Make the Best Medicine Imogen Prism 77
From Burning Man To Bellevue: A Hero's Journey Jeffrey Goines 87
Infiltrating the Mental Health Industrial Complex: On Being a Mental Health Patient-Professional Elisa Magon 97
On Becoming a Politicized Healer Jacks McNamara 115
Apples and Oranges L. D. Green 121
Where Icarus Flew Ken Paul Rosenthal 125
Occupational Therapy Casey Gardner 129
She Wasn't Crazy Kelechi Ubozoh 135
Part 2 Radical Interventions: Challenging the Biomedical Model and Stigma with the Recovery Model
What is Radical Mental Health? 139
The Mindful Occupation Collective
What's There to be Proud Of? Patrick Corrigan 147
Treating Trauma Through The Imagination: Therapeutic Effects of Simulation and Mimetic Induction Alisha Ali Stephan Wolfert 163
Underground Transmissions and Centering The Marginalized: Collaborative Strategies for Re-Visioning the Public Mental Health System Sascha Altman DuBrul 171
Dangerous Gifts: A New Wave of Mad Resistance Jonah Bossewitch 189
The Intersection of Mental Health, Communities of Color, and suicide Kelechi Ubozoh 219
Afterword: Mental Health in the Age of Perpetual Crisis L. D. Green 229
Afterword: Do Your Part Kelechi Ubozoh 235
Epilogue: The Power of Narrative Therapy in the Recovery Model Jessie Roth 237
Glossary 241
About The Editors 243