RESOURCES
These are just a few of the thousands of ways to assist you in your mental health journey. Make it your own. At one time or another, each of these resources gave me hope. As Joseph Campbell so eloquently noticed, “The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” Enjoy the swim.
CONFERENCES
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https://www.mhaoforegon.org/peerpocalypse-main-page
https://www.alternatives-conference.org/
https://ispsusconference.sched.com/
FILMS AND DOCUSERIES
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As Prescribed https://www.asprescribedfilm.com/
Bay Street Healer
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness-Ross McKenzie
Breakdown or Breakthrough-currently in production through Media that Matters
Calling God to the Witness Stand-currently in production through Media That Matters
Connecting the Dots https://connectingthedotsfilm.com/
Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story
Crazywise https://crazywisefilm.com/
Crooked Beauty https://vimeo.com/28315394
Drunk on Too Much Life https://drunkontoomuchlife.com/
Healing Homes https://youtu.be/JV4NTEp8S2Q
Love Thy Nature https://lovethynature.com/
Medicating Normal https://medicatingnormal.com/
Take These Broken Wings-Healing from Schizophrenia
That Way Madness Lies
The Wisdom of Trauma https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/
Mental Filmness, https://mentalfilmness.com/
COLLABORATIVE GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
A Call to Awakening
https://www.a-call-to-awakening.com/
A Disorder 4 Everyone
https://adisorder4everyone.com/
Awake.net
Bipolar Awakenings
https://www.bipolarawakenings.com/
CafeTACenter (Café Technical Assistance Center)
cafetacenter.net
City Voices, Making Mental Illness Fun Again
https://www.cityvoicesonline.org/peer-workers-united/
Earth Spirit Educational Services
https://earthspiritedu.org/
Emerging Proud
emergingproud.com
Fireweed collective
https://fireweedcollective.org/
Gateway Mountain Center, Peter Mayfield
https://www.sierraexperience.org/
Healing Sanctuary Proboards (forums)
https://healingsanctuary.proboards.com/
Hearing Voices Network
https://www.hearing-voices.org
Horticulture therapy
American Horticultural Therapy Association
https://www.ahta.org/
Inner Compass
innercompass.org
Inspired Mind Mental Health
https://www.inspiredmindmentalhealth.com/
International Peer Respite
https://www.peerrespite-soteria.org/
Intentional Peer Support
https://www.intentionalpeersupport.org/?v=b8a74b2fbcbb
Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU)
IMHU.org
International Association for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS)
ISPS.org
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights
Psychrights.org
MADx
https://madx.ca/
Mad in America
https://www.madinamerica.com
Matt’s Kindness Ripples On
https://mattskindnessrippleson.com/
Mental Health Advocates of WNY
https://mhawny.org/
Mental Health America
mhanational.org
Merit Institute
https://www.meritinstitute.org/
MindfFreedom International
https://mindfreedom.org/
National Empowerment Center
https://power2u.org/
Promise Resource Network
https://promiseresourcenetwork.org/
Sanity is a Full Time Job
Sanityisafulltimejob.org/
Spiritual Awakenings International
https://spiritualawakeningsinternational.org/
Spiritual Emergence Network USA
http://www.spiritualemergence.org/
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
https://www.samhsa.gov/
The TOPA institute
https://topa.institute/
Trauma Research Foundation
https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/
Traumainformedworld.com
Wild Heart Ecotherapy
https://www.justinwildheart.com/
PEOPLE
Elia Abi-Jaoude
Michael Beck, Peer resources LI
Claire Bien, ISPS
Sean Blackwell, Bipolar Awakenings
Emma Bragdon, PhD
Kelly Brogan, MD, holistic psychiatrist
Cherene Caraco, Promise Resource Network
Oryx Cohen, CEO National Empowerment Center
Skye Collins, CT HVN training facilitator
Daniel Dorman, MD, Author of Dante’s Cure (treats without drugs) https://www.danieldormanmd.com/practicing-psychiatrist.html
Pat Deegan, PhD, Patricia Deegan & Associates, self-described disruptor innovator in field of behavioral health recovery (former diagnosed schizophrenic) https://www.commongroundprogram.com/
Laura Delano, coming off psych meds, https://www.lauradelano.com/
Jacqui Dillon, A Disorder for Everyone
Sandor Ferenczi (https://www.sandorferenczi.org/)
Gary Ferguson, Author on outdoor therapy
Daniel Fisher
Braunwynn Franklin, 313NetworkSolutionsllc.com (mental health, incarceration w/returning citizens)
Phil Fleming, City Voices
Dan Frey, City Voices, Making Mental Illness Fun Again
Howard Gardner, Harvard professor, Theory of multiple intelligence
Jim Gottstein, author Zyprexa Papers, lawyer, advocate
Dr. Louise Hansen
Will Harris
Jennifer Helfand-labeled at age six, recovered and artist
Issa Ibrahim, artist, author, speaker, issues gallery.etsy.com, IssaIbrahim@gmail.com
Lucy Johnstone, author
Yvonne Kason, MD, spiritually transformative experiences
Peter Kinderman
Irving Kirsch
Paul Levy, shaman expert
Richard Louv
Dr. Tanya Luhrmann, Anthropology Dept., Stanford University…hearing voices
Paul Lysaker, PhD, providing recovery-oriented treatment to adults, Merit Institute
Eleanor Longden, Hearing Voices Network
Jen MacDonald, Altered states of consciousness expert, mental wellness networker
Eric Maisel, transformational journaling
Gabor Mate, Trauma and addiction
Peter Mayfield, Gateway Mountain Center
Katie Mottram, Spiritual emergence expert, Author Mend the Gap
Andrew Newberg
J. Wallace Nichols
David Oaks
Iva Paska
Justin Pegnataro
Mark Ragins, MD, Author Journeys Beyond the Frontier, A Rebellious Guide to Psychosis and Extraordinary Circumstances
Patte Randal
Josh Roberts - Neurodiversity Gifts instructor, inspiredmindmentalhealth.com
Marius Romme, Hearing Voices Network
Elyn Saks
Karl Shallowhorn, SAMHSA
Irit Shimrat, author, self-identified escaped lunatic
Judy Singer, neurodiversity
Miranda Spencer, Editor MIA
Dwayne Stone, Crazywise interviewee, works with worst case labels
Sami Timimi, MD, author of Insane Medicine, adolescent psychiatrist
Stephen Tonti-YouTube Ted Talk ADHD
Ron Unger, ISPS
Bessel van der Kolk, MD, association between trauma and “mental illness”
Hilary Van Welter
Jo Watson, Founder A D4Everyone
Paris Williams, PhD, Author Rethinking Madness
Robert Whitaker, Founder Mad in America
BOOKS
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A Mother’s Reckoning, Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, Sue Kliebold
A Philosophy of Madness, Wouter Kusters
Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker
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The Awakening Brain, Lisa Miller
Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
The Brain’s Way of Healing, Norman Doidge, M.D.
The Compassionate Connection, David Rakel
Dantes Cure, Daniel Dormann, M.D.
David’s Goliath, David Lyons
Death Grip-A Climber’s Escape from Benzo Madness, Matt Samet
Decoding Delusions-A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Delusions and Other Extreme Beliefs
The Guarded Gate, Daniel Okren
Head First, The Biology of Hope, Norman Cousins
The Hospital Always Wins, Issa Ibrahim
Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia, Benjamin, Haliburn & King
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Mate
Journeys Beyond the Frontier, Mark Ragins, M.D.
Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
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Living the Experience of Now, My Life Beyond Psychiatry
Patte Randal, Josephine Stanton
Lost Connections, Johann Hari
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Mad in America, Robert Whitaker
Mend the Gap, Katie Mottram
The Mind and the Moon, Daniel Bergner
Mind Over Medicine, Lissa Rankin
Mindful Loving, Henry Grayson, PhD
Mud Flower, Meghan Caughey
My Mysterious Son, Dick Russell
The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas Szasz, M.D.
The Myth of Normal, Trauma Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Gabor Mate
Opening Up, James Pennebaker
Outside Mental Health, Voices and Visions of Madness, Will Hall
Poems of Awakening, Edwin Charles
The Psychedelics Explorer’s Guide, James Fadiman
Reconciliation of the Heart, Mary Clista Dahl
Rethinking Madness, Paris Williams
Sarah: Bound by Addiction, Freed by Christ, Sandra Robinson
Shouting at the Sky, Gary Ferguson
Shrinks, the Untold Story of Psychiatry, Jeffrey Liberman, M.D.
The Soloist, Steve Lopez
Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
Spiritual Liberation, Michael Bernard Beckwith
The Promise That Changes Everything: I won’t Interrupt You, Nancy Klein
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind, Nancy Klein
The Universe has Your Back, Gabrielle Bernstein
When the Body Says No, the Cost of Hidden Stress, Gabor Mate
Why Kids Kill, Inside the Minds of School Shooters, Peter Langman
Zyprexa Papers, Jim Gottstein
WEBINARS AND TOWN HALLS
Compassionate Approaches to Voices
Cognitive Behavior and Related Therapies for Psychosis
Connecting the Dots Viewing and Panel Presentation
Crazywise: Psychosis and Psychedelics Live Webinar and Viewing
Ending the Prohibition of the Mind: A Mushroom Symposium
Exploring Dialogical Responses in a Time of Crisis
Intuitive Medicine Summit
Mad In America-Psychiatric Drugging of Our Children
Mental Wellness Connection-Health Means
The Mysticism/Psychosis Continuum
Peer Run Crisis Alternatives-with Cherene Caraco (Cafe TA Center)
Rethinking Psychiatry-a Soteria Webinar
FACEBOOK GROUPS
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Art of Nature
Awakening to Oneness
Celebrate What’s Right
Drop the Disorder
Just Listening Community
Shades of Awakening
When Lightning Strikes