960s, 316, 318–24, 357
abolitionists, 313–15, 317–18
Abraham, 383
Abzug, Robert, 31, 307, 312–13
actions, 189, 191
adolescents, 41, 62–63, 298–99
African-Americans, 194
Age of Darkness, 14–15, 116, 128, 375
Albert, Stew, 320
alcohol, 184
alienation, 30, 120–21, 128–29
allostatic load, 182
Alpert, Richard, 321, 382
altered states of consciousness (ASC),
3, 7, 94, 119–20, 218–19, 263
Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry, 38, 52
Ambien, 159, 160
American Indians, 194–95
American Journal of Psychiatry, 59–60
American Psychiatric Association
(APA), 37, 59–60, 63, 69, 70–72
on diagnosis and treatment of
mental disorders, 76–79
hunger strike and, 75–76
scientific panel responses to, 79–85
American Revolution, 304–5
anarchism, 187, 224
antidepressants, 50, 65–67, 83–84,
246–47
antipsychotics, 40
Aquarian Conspiracy, 238
Archives for Psychiatry and Nervous
Diseases, 58
Armageddon, 310
arrogance, 27–28
art and artists, 197–98, 322–23
atheism, 166, 168–69
attention deficit disorder, 63
attractors, 360–61
Augustinian Christianity, 289
Aurobindo. See Sri Aurobindo
Axelrod, Julius, 77–78
babies, 298–99
Baldwin, James, 321
Basaglia, Franco, 54
Baughman, Fred, 62–63
Beatles, 320
Beecher, Edward, 313
Be Here Now, 226, 321
Bellion, Regina, 51
benzodiazepines, 49–51, 244
Berkel, Rick, 71
Bey, Hakim, 224
Bhagavad Gita, 238
Binet-Sangle, Charles, 273
biopsychiatric model, 57–65, 68–75, 118
bipolar disorder, 1, 177–79, 204–6,
210, 246–47, 265–66
“Bipolar World, The,” 201
Birkel, Rick, 66
Black Panthers, 321
Black Pride, 7
Bloch, Ernst, 15, 17
Boisen, Anton, 229, 236–37, 238, 272, 327
borderline personality disorder, 180
Boysen, Guy, 58–59
brain defects, 58–63, 64–65
breakdowns, 3, 89, 256–57
breakthroughs, 214
Breeding, John, 62–63
Breggin, Peter, 6, 36–37, 50, 59, 119,
181, 241, 248
brilliance, 133, 262, 264
British Petroleum, 33
Brown, Celia, 87
Buber, Martin, 17, 307
Buddha, 341
Buddhism, 143–44, 145, 146–49,
234, 353–54
Bush, George H. W., 242
Bush, George W., 323
Buspar, 160
caffeine, 196
Calvinism, 308–10
Campbell, Joseph, 98, 111, 129, 226,
228, 238
Carlebach, Shlomo, 276–77
Celexa, 207
Chamberlin, Judi, 22, 95
channeling, 140, 214, 299, 343
Channing, William Ellery, 308,
311–12
chemical imbalances, 60–61, 62, 266
children, 41, 62–63, 298–99
Chomsky, Noam, 387
Christ consciousness, 237–38
Christianity, 23, 29, 31, 115–16,
237, 289, 306–18, 319, 375–76,
381–83
Christian Reformation, 308
Chronos, 337, 338
clairvoyance, 34
class, social, 193
Cleaver, Eldridge, 321
clinics, 42
cocaine, 195–96
Coming Off Drugs, 51
commitment laws, 5
communism, 187–88
compensation, 19
Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry,
The, 241
conformity, 197–98
consciousness, changing, 14–15
consensus reality, 17, 25, 328
consultation fees, 47–48
Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (CRPD), 87
countertransference, 333
Creating an Art Happening Called
Global Awakening, 355
creative maladjustment, 8–9, 10, 11,
90–91, 93, 113–14, 122–24,
129–30, 198, 274
creativity, 193
critical mass, 355–56
Crooked Beauty, 258–59
cultural revitalization, 31, 304–24
culture bias, 6, 7–8
Custance, John, 288, 296
dangerous gifts, 7, 19, 21, 113, 116, 124,
192, 257
dark night of the soul, 294–96
Davis, David Brion, 31
Dawkins, Richard, 295
day treatment centers, 209, 395–96
Deegan, Pat, 45–46
degradation, 44
delusions of grandeur, 26–27, 259,
273–74
Dendron, 86, 110
Depakote, 50–51, 178, 181, 204, 297
detachment, 23–24
deviants, 92–93
Diabasis, 125–26
diagnoses, 7–8, 55–56, 119, 157, 394
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for
Mental Disorders (DSM), 118
differences, 23–24
diversity, 3, 23–24, 115
Divine Feminine, 379–80
Dreaming Up Process, 325
dreams and dreaming, 122, 325, 386
drug cocktails, 47–49, 246–47
drugs, psychiatric
avoiding, 51–52
Breggin on, 36–37
chemical imbalances and, 60–61
DuBrul on, 203–14
forced, 104–7, 157–58
getting off of, 40–42
Grossberg on, 132–33
lengthy use of, 39–42, 246–49
lower dosages of, 46–47
noncompetition and, 48–49
side effects of, 246–47
use of multiple, 47–49, 246–47
withdrawal from, 184–86, 241–49
See also specific drugs
DuBrul, Sascha, 7, 16, 17, 18–19, 20–21,
24–25, 30, 393, 395
breakdowns of, 203–14
changes in thinking of, 214–22,
263–64
Farber on breakdown of, 240–49
God and, 234–36
Icarus Project and, 201–14
interview with, 223–39
on Mad Pride, 226–27, 231, 239,
250–59
medications and, 203–14, 227–29,
232–33, 241–46, 254–55
spiritual experiences and, 214–22,
225–31
Dylan, Bob, 320
ecological threats, 4–5, 12–13, 30–34,
108–9, 269, 383, 387
Edds, Kimberly, 65–67
Effexor, 160
ego, 231, 233–34
ego inflation, 17
electroshock, 5, 68, 87, 248
Elijah, 276–77, 286, 291
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 308, 309
emotion, intense expression of, 193
encounter, 251, 252–53
enlightenment, 149–50
evil, 4
Exploration of the Inner World, The,
236–37
faith, 148–49
families, 165–66
family therapy, 37, 42–44, 165–66
fantasies, 122
Farber, Seth
on DuBrul, 214–16, 240–49
DuBrul interview, 223–39
on family therapy, 42–43
Grossberg interview, 131–66
Levy interview, 325–61
Oaks interview, 86–98
Simon interview, 167–98
Stastny interview, 39–56
Whitney interview, 275–302
Ferguson, Marilyn, 238
Final Analysis, 335
Finney, Charles, 308, 310
First Great Awakening, 304–5
Florovsky, Georges, 388
Fonda, Jane, 321
forced druggings, 5, 104–7, 157–58
fossil fuels, 32–33
Foucault, Michel, 10
Fourth Awakening, 312, 318–24
Four Winds, 157
Fox, George, 10, 273–74
Freedom Center, 45, 51, 131, 159–60,
162, 167–68
Freud, Sigmund, 58, 334–35
Friends Make the Best Medicine,
219–20
Fromm, Erich, 313
Garrison, William, 317
Gay Pride, 7, 251–52
genes, 78
gestalt therapy, 251, 252–53
Ginsberg, Allen, 219, 320, 382
Global Burden of Disease, 78
global warming, 32–33, 387–88
God, 13, 16–17, 26–27, 29, 122, 139,
153–54, 177, 234–35
Gonzalez, David, 66
Gosden, Richard, 13–14
grandiose delusions, 26–27, 259,
273–74
Great Awakenings, 304–18
Grossberg, Chaya
Freedom Center and, 159–60, 162
interview with, 131–66
keynote address of, 132–33
medications and, 157–60
meditation and, 138–39, 141–42,
143–44, 147–48
poetry of, 133–34
Gulf of Mexico, 33
Haldol, 47, 106, 335–36
Haley, Jay, 42, 107
halfway houses, 209–10
Hall, Will, 3, 20, 24–25
Hansen, James, 32
Harding, Courtney, 52
Harmonic Convergence, 356–57
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming
Off of Psychiatric Drugs, 258
Hayden, Tom, 321, 323, 324
“Healing of the Blind Lady and the
Crucifixion by Psychiatry, The,”
343–46
Hearing Voices Network, 45–46
Heart of History, The, 13
heaven, 12–13
Hedges, Chris, 387–88
Henry, Jules, 182
heretics, 112–13
hero’s journey, 296, 392–96
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 319
Hicks, Esther, 383
Hicks, Jerry, 383
Hoffman, Abbie, 320
homosexuality, 6, 251–52, 301
hopelessness, 89
Hornstein, Gail, 265
Hosner, William, 315
hospitals, mental, 42, 44–45,
162–63
“Human Cycle, The,” 363, 371,
372–73, 380
Human Potential Movement, 250
human rights, 5
human sacrifice, 97–98
Hume, David, 399
hunger strike
APA response to, 70–72
historical context of, 57–65
newspaper article of, 65–67
scientific panel and, 72–75
statement about, 67–72
hypnotherapy, 37
Icarus Project, The, 2–3, 7, 16, 20–21,
26, 113, 127, 187
birth of, 201–3, 262–63
DuBrul and, 201–14, 238, 250–59
future of, 258–59
revolt against monoculture, 214–22
Idel, Moshe, 17
identity, 8–9
incest, 332
informed consent, 197
inner world, 122
insanity, 3–5, 91–92
insurance, 49–50
International Association for the
Advancement of Creative
Maladjustment (IAACM),
90–91
International Network Toward
Alternatives and Recovery
(INTAR), 38–40
internment camps, 357–58
Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry,
73–74
invalidation, 44
ironic detachment, 23–24
Isaiah, 10, 31
Jackson, Grace, 182, 184
James, William, 273
Jamison, Kay, 211–12, 248
Jensen, Derrick, 31–32
Jesus, 17, 29, 62, 116, 237–38, 272,
274, 325–26
Joyce, James, 289
Judaism, 17, 152–56, 163, 276–77
Jung, Carl, 14, 19, 29, 265, 270, 307–8
kairos, 31, 315–16, 388–89
Kali, Gianna, 41
Kennedy, Bobby, 321
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 11, 91, 92–93,
100, 110–11, 273–74, 319
Kingdom of God in America, The, 311
Klonopin, 49, 50
Kovel, Joel, 54–55
Kraepelin, Emil, 246
Kramer, Peter, 176
Krassner, Paul, 320
Kravitz, Mimi, 42
Krishna, 234
labeling, 95–97
Laing, R. D., 3, 6–7, 12, 14–15, 22–23,
116, 119–24, 127–29, 216–17,
263, 295, 313, 375
leadership, 22–23, 25, 28
Leary, Timothy, 320
Lehmann, Peter, 38, 51
Lennon, John, 28–29, 320–21
Levy, Paul, 14, 16, 28–29, 265, 266,
270, 316, 322–23, 386, 395
abuse and, 330–35, 336–37, 339–42
on compensation, 19
on creativity, 353–57
healing and, 340–48
on initiations, 2
interview with, 325–61
medications and, 335–36
on spiritual nature of experiences,
325–33, 359–61
LGBTQ movement, 251–52
liberty, 6
Lincoln, Abraham, 265
Listening to Prozac, 176
lithium, 210, 211, 212, 217, 232–33,
243, 245, 282, 335–36
Long Sixties, The, 323
Loony-Bin Trip, The, 191, 248–49
LSD, 319, 322
madness, 112–13
explanation of, 3–5
future and, 114–16
repudiation of the psychiatric
narrative and, 8–11
sociobiological function of, 11–16
use of term, 221–22
value of, 9, 121–24
See also Mad Pride
Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of
Angels, 87
Madness Radio, 24
Mad Pride
context of, 381–84
creative maladjustment and, 129–30
DuBrul on, 226–27, 231, 239
future of, 384–91
hero’s journey, 392–96
leadership and, 22–23, 25, 28
medications and, 244
messianic transformation and,
25–34, 268–74
movement of, 1–3, 5–8
Oaks and, 89–93
postmodernism and, 23–24, 262–67
transitions of, 16–25
See also madness; messianism
Making of a Counter Culture, The, 104
Making Us Crazy?, 180–81
maladjusted, 8–9
Malcolm X, 321
mania, 21–22, 26–27, 181, 300, 332
Manson, Charles, 4
Marcuse, Allen, 320
Marcuse, Herbert, 322
marijuana, 50, 184–85, 186, 322
Marx, Carl, 16
Marxism, 319
Masson, Jeffrey, 334–35
McKanan, Dan, 308
McLoughlin, William, 304–6, 315,
318, 321–22, 324, 381
McNamara, [Jacks] Ashley, 16, 18,
21–22, 127, 201–2, 212, 214, 258
Medicaid, 37
medication. See drugs, psychiatric
meditation, 138–39, 141–42, 143–44,
147–48, 363
mental health system, 1–2, 9–10
criticisms of, 36–56
historical context of, 57–65
mental hospitals, 42, 44–45, 162–63
mental illness, 58, 71–72
human salvation and, 110–11
Icarus Project and, 202
myth of, 5–6, 60–61, 118–24, 202
as problem of living, 121, 266
repudiation of, 8–11
mental patients, 52, 120
ecology and, 33–34
liberty and, 6
process of becoming, 42
social change and, 10–11
Mental Patients’ Liberation Front
(MPLF), 107, 108
messianism, 16–17, 21–22, 25–34,
225–26, 263–67, 268–74
Second Great Awakening and,
306–18
See also spiritual experiences; Sri Aurobindo
metanoia, 10
Millett, Kate, 191, 207, 219, 243, 245,
248–49
Mind Freedom International, 9–10,
51, 63–64, 86–90. See also
hunger strike
Minuchin, Salvador, 42
Mitchell, Joni, 321–22
Moncrieff, Joanne, 241
monoculture, 214–22
Moses, 272
Mosher, Loren, 37, 49, 63, 85, 254, 295
music, 316, 319, 321–23
mystics and mysticism, 111–12, 129,
226–27, 300–301
Myth of Mental Illness, The, 118–20
narcissism, 27–28, 335
National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI), 43–44, 66, 69, 294
National Association for Rights
Protection and Advocacy
(NARPA), 132–33
National Institute of Mental Health
(NIHM), 1, 254
Navigating the Space Between
Brilliance and Madness, 201, 214
neoliberal backlash, 251, 254
neuroleptics, 50, 132, 247–48
New Age movement, 27, 164, 382–83
New Earth, The, 238
New Freedom Commission, 79
New Left, 318
Newsweek, 2–3
New York Times, The, 47
Niebuhr, H. Richard, 311, 317, 381
normality, 30, 92–93, 120–21, 124
Oaks, David, 4, 9–10, 22, 393
commentary on, 110–16
on hunger strike, 65–67
incarceration and chemical torture
of, 104–7
interview with, 86–98
life story of, 99–110
as rebel with a cause, 107–10
religious experiences of, 101–4
resistant identity of, 64–65
Obama, Barack, 33, 323, 387–88
Occupy Wall Street, 31–32, 390
Office of the Surgeon General, 69
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, 59
open dialogue, 43–44
original sin, 308–9
Orr, David, 32–33
out-of-body experiences, 263
Pantanjali, 230
Parks, Rosa, 91, 92–93
Paul, Saint, 10, 31
peer support. See self-help groups
perfectionism, 317, 318, 374, 379
permeable boundaries, 328–29
Perry, John Weir, 13, 14, 16, 33–34,
111, 125–30, 268–72, 295, 375
personality disorders, 335
pessimism, 89
pharmaceutical companies, 213, 302,
347–48. See also psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex
placebo effect, 209, 242, 245–46
Plato, 9, 234–35
pluralism, 23–24
Podvoll, Ed, 159
poetry, 139
Politics of Experience, The, 3, 6–7,
14–15, 120, 121, 128, 268
polypharmacy psychiatric drug illness,
246–47
Porter, Ray, 61
postmodernism, 23–24, 262–67
prayer, 154–55
prison, 178
problem of living, 121, 266
process theology, 383
prophets, 10, 13–14, 269–72. See also
messianism
Prozac, 160, 176, 181, 247
psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex,
1–2
biopsychiatric model of, 57–65,
68–75, 118
criticisms of, 36–56
historical context of, 57–65
psychiatric survivors’ movement, 1,
5–7, 18, 20, 120–24
psychiatry. See psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex
psychic abilities, 206–7
Psychology Today, 63
psychosis, 4, 7, 8–11, 14, 93–94, 110,
216–17, 228–29. See also madness
psychotherapy, 37, 59, 134–35,
189–90
Ramakrishna, 230
rape, 174–75
reaction formation, 228
Reagan, Ronald, 324
reality, 14, 30, 92, 126
recovery, 39–40, 89
relationships, 46–47
relativism, 23–24 religion, 8, 15, 61–62. See also specific
religion
renewal, spiritual, 125–30
revitalization movement, 31, 269,
304–24. See also Sri Aurobindo
Revivalism and Social Reform, 314
Richard, Mira, 365, 397
Rina (Buddhist nun), 340, 346
Risperdal, 48, 159, 160, 281–82
Ritalin, 247
role models, 22
Romme, Marius, 46
Roszak, Theodore, 104, 126
Rumsfeld, Donald, 4
Saints and Madmen: Psychiatry
Opens its Doors to Religion,
325
salvation, human, 110–11
sanctuaries, 125–30. See also Soteria
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 201,
214, 254–55
sanity, 114
Sankara, 364
Satcher, David, 71
Savitri, 371–72, 377–79, 397–403
schizophrenia, 1, 6–7, 13, 14–15,
33–34, 53, 73–74
as chronic disability, 265–66
as genetic asset, 120–22
mysticism and, 226–27
recovery from, 39–40
sensitivity and, 127–28
trauma and, 255–56
Schneerson (Rabbi), 277, 286–87
Schweitzer, Albert, 237, 325–26
Scully, James H., 66, 70–71
Second Coming, 307–8
Second Great Awakening, 306–18
secularism, 18–19, 168–69, 375
Seduction of Madness, The, 159
self-esteem, 44, 169
self-help groups, 127, 169, 190–92
self-help movement, 37–38, 386
sensitivity, 127–28, 256–57, 328–29,
359–61
sexuality, 46–47, 170–71, 173,
| 251–52, 301
shamans and shamanism, 194–95,
218–19, 259, 263, 329–30, 338,
341–42, 348
Shaughnessy, Pete, 89
Shipko, Stuart, 66
Shive, Madigan, 20, 22
Simon, Caty, 8, 393
Bryn Mawr experience of, 183–84,
186–88
Freedom Center and, 190–92,
197
interview with, 167–98
on spiritual experiences, 193–95
sleep, 195
Smith, Timothy, 309
Social and Political Thought, 380
social change, 10–11, 114–16, 164,
220–21, 257–58
messianic transformation and,
268–74
See also Sri Aurobindo
society
dysfunction of, 12
insanity of, 4–5, 91–92, 111, 114,
197–98
mental health system and, 9–10
Socrates, 9
Soteria, 51, 53–54, 85, 126, 244
Soteria Project, 196
speed, 195–96
Spiritual Emergency Network, 295
spiritual experiences, 34, 121–22,
125–30, 164, 193–95, 216–22,
301
Sri Aurobindo, 12–13, 23, 354,
362–80
activism of, 266–369
early life of, 365–66
sadhana of, 369–71
writings of, 363–65, 371–74, 377–79,
397–403 SSRIs, 41, 50, 83–84, 246–47
Stastny, Peter
on effective strategies, 55–56
interview with, 36–56
on medications, 40–42, 46–51
on recovery, 39–40
on Soteria, 52–55
on voice hearing movement, 44–46
Stevens, Anthony, 257
Strout, Cushing, 310–11
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS), 321
suicide, 82, 173–74, 205–6, 295
Sullivan, Henry Stack, 49–50
support (user-owned), 109–10
Support Coalition International (SCI), 86
survivors of psychiatry. See psychiatric
survivors’ movement
Szasz, Thomas, 5–6, 7–8, 39, 60–61,
118–20
talent, 193
Tarnas, Richard, 23, 388–89
television, 102–3
Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 73
Thalbourne, Michael, 256
therapy, 37, 59, 134–35, 189–90
Theravada Buddhists, 353–54
thin boundaries, 328–29
Thomas, John L., 308, 317
Thorazine, 105–6
tikkun, 163
Tillich, Paul, 31
Tolle, Eckhart, 21, 238, 382–83
Toxic Psychiatry, 248
transliminality, 256–57
trauma, 251, 255–56, 332
treatment resistance, 158
Ulysses contract, 51
unhappiness, 62–63
Unquiet Mind, An, 248
utopian vision, 12–13, 15–17. See also
messianism
Valium, 49
Vedanta, 364
visionaries, 13–14, 21–22, 111, 129,
330. See also messianism
voice-hearing movement, 44–45
Wallace, Anthony, 304, 315
“Want,” 133–34
Washington Post, 65–67
Watts, Alan, 382
Weathermen, 320
weight gain, 40
Weld, Theodore, 312–14, 317, 381
Wellbutrin, 210
Wellness Map, 252
Western civilization, 61–62
Whitaker, Robert, 48, 206, 243–44,
246, 254
Whitehead, Alfred North, 384
Whitney, Ed, 16, 28, 394
breakdown of, 277–83, 288–93
as healer, 283–85
interview with, 275–302
on medical model, 297–302
messianic age and, 285–88
on spiritual nature of experiences,
292–97
wholeness, visions of, 265
Wilber, Ken, 27, 374
Windhorse, 159
wine, 49–50
wisdom, 4–5
withdrawal, 241
Wood, Gordon, 305
Woodstock, 321–22
Woolf, Virginia, 172
World Health Organization, 87
writers and writing, 172–73
Xanax, 160
yoga, 138–39
yoga sutras, 230
Yoko Ono, 320
Youth International Party (YIP), 320
Zyprexa, 174, 178, 181–82, 207