Introduction. Discovering the Higher Sanity within Madness
1. Levy, “God the Imagination,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=170 (accessed October 24, 2011).
2. Newsweek, “Listening to Madness,” www.newsweek.com/2009/05/01/listening-to-madness.html (accessed October 24, 2011).
3. Kutchins and Kirk, Making Us Crazy.
4. Laing, Politics of Experience.
5. Morrison, Talking Back to Psychiatry, 103, 104–5.
6. Ibid., 103.
7. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 354–62.
8. Laing, Politics of Experience, 76.
9. King, “Speech to American Psychiatric Association” and “Speech to Lincoln University,” www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm (accessed November 8, 2011).
10. Laing, Politics of Experience, 120.
11. Reddy, Footnotes to the Future, 124.
12. Ibid., 125.
13. Aurobindo, Social and Political Thought, 350.
14. Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise.
15. Reddy, Footnotes to the Future, 154.
16. O’Callaghan, “Interview with John Weir Perry,” www.global-vision.org/papers/JWP.pdf, 14 (accessed October 24, 2011); and Perry, The Heart of History, 207.
17. Gosden, Schismatic Mind, 165, 170. Available at http://sites.google.com/site/richardgosden/phd (accessed October 24, 2011).
18. Levy, Madness of George W. Bush, 215–16.
19. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 48.
20. Ibid., 48–49.
21. Laing, Politics of Experience, 129.
22. Ibid., 120.
23. Kumar, Religion and Utopia, 65.
24. Luzkow, What’s Left, 83.
25. Ibid., 82–85.
26. Lowy, Redemption and Utopia, 51.
27. Ibid., 51.
28. Ibid., 55.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., 13.
31. Idel, Messianic Mystics, 323.
32. Levy, “The Artist as Healer of the World,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=162 (accessed October 24, 2011).
33. The Icarus Project, Friends Make the Best Medicine.
34. The Icarus Project, “Mission Statement,” http://theicarusproject.net/about-us/icarus-project-mission-statement (accessed October 25, 2011).
35. McNamara, “In This Society the Mystics Will Always Live on the Margins,” 68.
36. Ibid., 68.
37. Ibid., 66.
38. Ibid., 70.
39. Morrison, Talking Back to Psychiatry, 78; Chamberlin, On Our Own.
40. Tarnas, Passion of the Western Mind, 401.
41. Ibid.
42. Jacoby, End of Utopia.
43. Millett, Loony-Bin Trip, 85.
44. Serine, “Anybody else think god gave them a mission to save the world?” online discussion in The Icarus Project Forum: Alternate Dimensions or Psychotic Delusions?, started February 7, 2007, http://theicarusproject.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8135 (accessed October 25, 2011).
45. Levy, “Are We Possessed?” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=211 (accessed October 25, 2011).
46. Levy, Madness of George W. Bush, 146–47.
47. Laing, Politics of Experience, 28.
48. Ibid., 157.
49. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling, 5.
50. Ibid.
51. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 8.
52. Smecker and Jensen, “You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It Too,” www.truth-out.org/you-cant-kill-planet-and-live-it-too/1310403275 (accessed November 9, 2011).
53. Speth, Bridge at the Edge of the World, 26–27; Orr, Down to the Wire.
54. Smecker and Jensen, “You Can’t Kill a Planet and Live on It Too,” www.truth-out.org/you-cant-kill-planet-and-live-it-too/1310403275 (accessed October 24, 2011); O’Callaghan, “Interview with John Weir Perry,” www.global-vision.org/papers/JWP.pdf, 14 (accessed October 24, 2011).
55. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 48.
Chapter 1. Interview with Peter Stastny, M. D.: The Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex and Its Critics
1. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 354–60.
2. Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels.
3. Stastny and Lehmann, eds., Alternatives beyond Psychiatry.
4. The International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery, intar.org (accessed October 25, 2011).
5. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 362–64.
6. Hornstein, Agnes’s Jacket, 30–43.
7. Harris, Carey, and Roberts, “Psychiatrists, Children, and the Drug Industry’s Role,” www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/health/10psyche.html?pagewanted=all (accessed October 25, 2011).
8. Stastny and Lehmann, eds., Alternatives beyond Psychiatry.
9. Whitaker, Mad in America.
10. Seikkula, “Open Dialogues.”
Chapter 2. The Mind Freedom Hunger Strike
1. Boysen, “An Evaluation of the DSM Concept of Mental Disorder,” 164.
2. Boysen, ibid. For a discussion of the weaknesses of Freudianism, see Farber, “Institutional Mental Health and Social Control,” www.academyanalyticarts.org/farber.htm (accessed October 26, 2011); and Farber, “Augustinianism and the Psychoanalytic Metanarrative.”
3. Boysen, “An Evaluation of the DSM Concept of Mental Disorder,” 164.
4. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 354.
5. Ibid., 354.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., 355.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Szasz, Coercion as Cure, 12.
11. Ibid., 59–60.
12. Ibid., 58–59.
13. Ibid., 59.
14. Farber, Eternal Day.
15. Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.
16. Farber, Eternal Day.
17. John Breeding’s website, www.wildestcolts.com (accessed October 26, 2011).
18. Mosher, “Resignation from APA,” www.moshersoteria.com/articles/resignation-from-apa (accessed October 26, 2011).
19. Morrison, Talking Back to Psychiatry, 99–130.
20. Edds, “California Hunger Strike Challenges Use of Antidepressants,” www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/the-washington-post (accessed October 26, 2011).
21. “Original Statement by the Fast for Freedom in Mental Health,” July 28, 2003, www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/original-statement-by-the-fast-for-freedom-in-mental-health (accessed October 26, 2011).
22. Ibid.
23. “Response from APA,” August 12, 2003, www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/response-from-apa (accessed October 26, 2011).
24. “Fast for Freedom Scientific Panel Reply to the APA,” August 22, 2003, www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/scientific-panel-addresses-apa-claims (accessed October 26, 2011).
25. Boysen, “An Evaluation of the DSM Concept of Mental Disorder,” 164.
26. “American Psychological Association ‘Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders,’” September 26, 2003, www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/apa-statement-on-quot-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-mental-disorders-quot (accessed October 26, 2011).
27. “Scientific Panel Replies to APA Statement,” December 15, 2003, www.whatcausesmentalillness.com/research/mindfreedom-hunger-strike/scientific-panel-replies-to-apa-statement (accessed October 26, 2011).
Chapter 3. Interview with David Oaks: From Harvard to the Psychiatric Survivors’ Movement
1. Oaks, “Mind Freedom International,” 334.
2. Ibid.; www.mindfreedom.org; and personal communication.
3. Mind Freedom International, “Eco Madness!!! Or, Humans Are Killing the Planet and I Feel Fine,” www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride (accessed October 28, 2011).
4. Chamberlin, On Our Own.
5. Farber, “The Challenge of Cosmic Optimism: An Appeal to the Mad and Other Cultural Dissidents,” 11–13, 31–37.
Chapter 4. Mental Patients’ Liberation
1. Szasz, Myth of Mental Illness; and Szasz, Ideology and Insanity.
2. Leifer, “Medical Model as the Ideology of the Therapeutic State”; and Schaler, Szasz under Fire.
3. Sarbin and Mancuso, Schizophrenia.
4. Szasz, My Madness Saved Me, 10; and Szasz, Coercion as Cure.
5. Laing, Politics of Experience, 120.
6. Ibid., 28, 167.
7. Magnet, Dream and the Nightmare.
8. Laing, Politics of Experience, 125.
9. Ibid., 127.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 140.
12. Ibid., 142.
13. Ibid., 140–42.
14. Ibid., 119.
15. Ibid., 129.
16. Ibid., 144–45.
17. Mullan, Mad to Be Normal, 378; Laing also used the word disheartened in a 1987 interview with Richard Hefner on the television show on NET, Open Mind, and in seminars he led, which I attended in New York City in 1986 and 1987.
Chapter 5. R. D. Laing, John Weir Perry, and the Sanctuary for Visionaries
1. Burston, Wing of Madness, 78–92.
2. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 147.
3. Ibid., 63.
4. Ibid., 39.
5. Ibid., vii.
6. Whitaker, Mad in America, 225.
7. McNamara, “In This Society the Mystics Will Always Live on the Margins,” 70.
8. Stastny and Lehmann, eds., Alternatives beyond Psychiatry.
9. Goffman, Asylums.
10. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 7.
11. Ibid.
12. Laing, Divided Self.
13. Laing, Politics of Experience, 129.
14. Burston, Wing of Madness, 77–92.
15. Campbell, “Schizophrenia—The Inward Journey,” 219–20.
16. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 123.
Chapter 6. Interview with Chaya Grossberg: Spiritually Informed Social Activism
1. Chaya Grossberg’s Keynote Address to National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), 2005.
2. Podvoll, Seduction of Madness.
3. See, for example, Breggin and Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem; Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels; and interview with Dr. Stastny in chapter 1.
4. Newsweek, “Listening to Madness,” www.newsweek.com/2009/05/01/listening-to-madness.html (accessed October 27, 2011).
5. Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels.
6. Haley, Leaving Home.
7. Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumor of Angels.
8. Morrison, Talking Back to Psychiatry.
9. Minuchin, Families and Family Therapy; and Haley, Leaving Home.
10. Laing, Sanity, Madness, and the Family; and Haley, Leaving Home.
Chapter 7. Interview with Caty Simon: the Communitarian Vision
1. Simon, “Caty’s Story,” www.theicarusproject.net/articles/catys-story (accessed October 24, 2011).
2. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry; and Jackson, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs.
3. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 67.
4. Jackson, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs, 52.
5. Laing, Politics of Experience, 71.
6. Ibid., 57–64.
7. Jackson, Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs, 63.
8. Minuchin, Families and Family Therapy.
9. Millett, Loony-Bin Trip.
Chapter 8. The Roots of The Icarus Project
1. Swami Prabhupada, ed., Bhagavad Gita, ch. 1, text 26, 55; ch. 1, text 46, 71.
2. Gandhi, “Gita According to Gandhi,” www.wikilivres.info/wiki/The_Gita_According_to_Gandhi/Introduction (accessed October 28, 2011).
3. Laing, Politics of Experience, 144–45.
4. Ginsberg, Howl, 9.
5. DuBrul, “Bipolar World,” 10–14.
6. The Icarus Project, “The Icarus Project Mission Statement,” www.theicarusproject.net/about-us/icarus-project-mission-statement (accessed October 28, 2011).
7. The Icarus Project, Navigating the Space between Brilliance and Madness, inside cover; and Mitchell-Brody, “The Icarus Project,” 144.
8. The Icarus Project, Mission Statement.
9. DuBrul, “Bipolar World.”
10. DuBrul, Scatter’s blog, theicarusproject.net/blog/scatter (accessed October 28, 2011).
11. Breggin, “Suicidality, Violence, and Mania Caused by Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs),” 31–49.
12. Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, 179, 188.
13. Farber, Madness, Heresy, and the Rumors of Angels.
14. Millett, Loony-Bin Trip.
15. DuBrul, Scatter’s blog, theicarusproject.net/blog/scatter (accessed October 28, 2011).
16. Buhlman, Adventures beyond the Body.
17. The Icarus Project, Friends Make the Best Medicine.
Chapter 9. Interview with Sascha DuBrul: The Reluctant Warrior, May 2009
1. Bey, Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism.
2. Ram Dass, Be Here Now.
3. Campbell, “Schizophrenia—The Inward Journey.”
4. Boisen, Exploration of the Inner World.
Chapter 10. The Warrior in Retreat
1. Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 174; and Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, 185.
2. Breggin and Cohen, Your Drug May Be Your Problem, 130.
3. “Project on the Decade of the Brain,” Presidential Proclamation 6158, www.loc.gov/loc/brain/proclaim.html (accessed October 28, 2011).
4. Laing, Sanity, Madness, and the Family; and Haley, Leaving Home.
5. Millett, Loony-Bin Trip, 310–12.
6. Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, 195–96, 35.
7. Ibid., 186–87.
8. Ibid., 187.
9. Ibid., 192.
10. Ibid., 191.
11. Ibid., 193.
12. Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, 211; also Breggin, Brain-Disabling Treatments.
13. McNally, “Misconceptions about Mental Illness,” Harvard University Press Blog, February 7, 2011, http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2011/02/misconceptions-madness-mayhem-what-is-mental-illness.html (accessed October 28, 2011).
14. Breggin, Brain-Disabling Treatments; and Andre, Doctors of Deception.
15. Millett, Loony-Bin Trip, 310–11.
Chapter 11. The Icarus Project and the Future of Mad Pride
1. Finkelhor, “Current Information on the Scope of Child Sexual Abuse,” www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/VS75.pdf (accessed October 28, 2011).
2. Thalbourne et al., “Transliminality: Its Nature and Correlates,” 305–32.
3. Grof, Realms of the Human Unconscious.
4. Stevens and Price, Prophets, Cults, and Madness, 32.
5. The Icarus Project and the Freedom Center, Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off of Psychiatric Drugs.
6. McNamara, “Drawing New Lines on the Map,” 63, 66.
Chapter 12. The Messianic or Postmodern Paradigm?
1. The Icarus Project, “The Icarus Project Mission Statement,” www.theicarusproject.net/about-us/icarus-project-mission-statement (accessed October 28, 2011).
2. Buhlman, Adventures beyond the Body.
3. DuBrul, “Bipolar World.”
4. Hornstein, Agnes’s Jacket, 274.
Chapter 13. The Relationship of Mad Pride to Messianic Transformation
1. Perry, Far Side of Madness, 8.
2. O’Callaghan, “Interview with John Weir Perry,” www.jungianschizophrenia.blogspot.com/2009/01/inner-apocalypse-in-mythology-madness.html (accessed November 6, 2011).
3. Perry, Heart of History, 206.
4. Ibid., 204–5.
5. Ibid., 205.
6. Ibid., 205–6.
7. Levy, “The Artist as Healer of the World,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=162 (accessed November 6, 2011).
8. Perry, Heart of History, 40.
9. Gosden, Schismatic Mind, 165–66. Available at http://sites.google.com/site/richardgosden/phd (accessed October 24, 2011).
10. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 48–49.
11. Goffman, Asylums.
12. Boisen, Exploration of the Inner World, 131.
13. Ibid., 134.
14. Ibid., 63.
15. Ibid., 62.
16. Dementia of Jesus, 393, as cited in Havis, Not Resigned, 146.
17. King, “Speech to American Psychiatric Association,” 1967; King, “Speech to Lincoln University,” June 6, 1961. Available at www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-health-global/iaacm/MLK-on-IAACM (accessed November 6, 2011).
Chapter 14. Interview with Dr. Ed Whitney: Finding Oneself at the Age of Forty-five, Messianic Visions
1. Whitney, “Mania as Spiritual Emergency,” www.spiritualrecoveries.blogspot.com/2006/07/personal-account-mania-as-spiritual.html (accessed November 6, 2011).
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Custance, Wisdom, Madness, and Folly.
6. Whitney, “Mania as Spiritual Emergency.”
7. Ibid.
8. Underhill, Mysticism, 380–412.
9. Whitney, “Mania as Spiritual Emergency.”
Chapter 15. Cultural Revitalization Movements
1. Wallace, Revitalizations and Mazeways, 11.
2. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 97; ibid., 96.
3. Ibid., 8.
4. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform.
5. Levy, Madness of George W. Bush, 146–47.
6. Thomas, “Romantic Reform in America,” 155; and Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity, 162–89.
7. McKanan, Identifying the Image of God, 48.
8. Thomas, “Romantic Reform in America,” 153.
9. Ibid., 156.
10. Ibid., 153–54.
11. Sweet, Evangelical Tradition in America, 143.
12. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 8.
13. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling, 8.
14. Jacoby, Utopian Thought in an Anti-Utopian Age.
15. Robbins and Magee, Sleeping Giant Has Awoken.
16. Rosell, “Charles G. Finney,” 142.
17. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 130.
18. Ibid.
19. Strout, New Heavens and the New Earth, 106.
20. Abzug, Passionate Liberator, 46.
21. Niebuhr, Kingdom of God in America, 148.
22. Ibid., 149.
23. Ibid., 150.
24. Ibid., 152.
25. Ibid., 153.
26. Ibid., 152.
27. Abzug, Passionate Liberator, 108.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., 109.
30. Niebuhr, Kingdom of God in America.
31. Ibid., 157; and Abzug, Passionate Liberator, 109.
32. Niebuhr, Kingdom of God in America, 158.
33. Ibid., 159.
34. Abzug, Passionate Liberator, 28–51, 121–22.
35. Niebuhr, 157.
36. Smith, Revivalism and Social Reform, 8.
37. Ibid., 225.
38. Ibid., 161.
39. Ibid., 206.
40. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling, 5.
41. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 130.
42. Ibid., 179–85.
43. Roszak, Making of a Counter Culture.
44. McLoughlin, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, 208.
45. Ibid., 210.
46. Ibid., 208.
47. Levy, “The Artist as Healer of the World,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=162 (accessed October 24, 2011).
48. Hayden, Long Sixties, 19–20.
49. Ibid., 19.
Chapter 16. Interview with Paul Levy: “They May Say I’m a Dreamer”
1. Levy, “Bio,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?page_id=2 (accessed November 6, 2011).
2. Levy, “We Are All Shamans in Training,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=160 (accessed November 6, 2011).
3. Ibid.
4. Levy, “The Artist as Healer of the World,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=162 (accessed November 6, 2011).
5. Levy, “The Wounded Healer, Part 2,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=157 (accessed November 6, 2011).
6. Levy, “God the Imagination,” www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/?p=170 (accessed November 6, 2011).
7. Levy, “We Are All Shamans in Training.”
8. Levy, “The Healing of the Blind Lady and the Crucifixion by Psychiatry,” unpublished.
9. Levy, “We Are All Shamans in Training.”
10. Ibid.
Chapter 17. Revitalization and the Messianic-Redemptive Vision of Sri Aurobindo
1. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo.
2. Aurobindo, Life Divine, 1060.
3. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle.”
4. Bruteau, “Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard De Chardin,” 203.
5. Gandhi, Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the New Age, 329.
6. Van Vrekhem, Patterns of the Present, 135.
7. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, 223–24.
8. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 123.
9. Varma, Political Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, 168.
10. Heehs, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 33.
11. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, 82.
12. Gandhi, Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, 5–6.
13. Purani, The Life, 118.
14. Ibid., 57–58.
15. Ibid., 97–99.
16. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 178, 232.
17. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, 106.
18. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 160.
19. Ibid., 164.
20. Ibid., 178.
21. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, 118.
22. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 165.
23. Ibid., 183.
24. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, 61.
25. Aurobindo, On Himself, 457.
26. Gandhi, Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, 7.
27. Aurobindo, Upanishads, 189.
28. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 61–62.
29. Ibid., 213.
30. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 212.
31. Aurobindo, Savitri, 441.
32. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 248.
33. Ibid., 231.
34. Ibid., 232.
35. Ibid., 233.
36. Ibid., 232.
37. Hemsell, Ken Wilber and Sri Aurobindo, www.integralworld.net/hemsell.html.
38. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 225.
39. Ibid., 244; Aurobindo, Life Divine, 1008.
40. Laing, Politics of Experience, 129.
41. Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind, 48.
42. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 248.
43. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo, 342.
44. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 249.
45. Ibid., 250.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Aurobindo, Savitri, 648–49.
49. Ibid., 721.
50. Mehta, Dialogue with Death, 351–53; and Aurobindo, Savitri, 706.
51. Aurobindo, “Human Cycle,” 251.
52. Ibid., 248.
53. Mehta, Miracle of Descent, 67.
54. Ibid., 67.
Chapter 18. Whither Mad Pride?
1. Heehs, Lives of Sri Aurobindo.
2. Lasch, Culture of Narcissism.
3. Griffin, Varieties of Postmodern Theology, xiii.
4. Levy, Madness of George W. Bush, 209–10.
5. Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class, 202; and Chomsky, “Occupy the Future,” www.truth-out.org/occupy-future/1320154096 (accessed November 15, 2011).
6. Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class, 204.
7. Florovsky, Creation and Redemption, 85–87.
8. Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche, 492.
9. Aurobindo, Savitri, 699.
Appendix. Extracts from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri
1. Mukherjee, Destiny of the Body.