Discovering the Higher Sanity within Madness
From Mental Patients’ Liberation to Mad Pride
Repudiation of the Psychiatric Narrative
The Sociobiological Function of Madness: The Spiritual Evolution Narrative
What Is to Be Done? Adopting a High Messianic Perspective
The Failure of the Psychiatric System and the Biomedical Myth
Chapter 1: Interview with Peter Stastny, M.D.: The Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex and Its Critics
Chapter 2: The Mind Freedom Hunger Strike
Chapter 3: Interview with David Oaks: From Harvard to the Psychiatric Survivors’ Movement
Commentary on David’s Story and Interview
The Intellectual Background of Mad Pride
Chapter 4: Mental Patients’ Liberation
Chapter 5: R. D. Laing, John Weir Perry, and the Sanctuary for Visionaries
Chapter 6: Interview with Chaya Grossberg: Spiritually Informed Social Activism
Chapter 7: Interview with Caty Simon: The Communitarian Vision
Chapter 8: The Roots of The Icarus Project
The Crack Up and Birth of a Movement
The Revolt against the Monoculture
Chapter 9: Interview with Sascha DuBrul: The Reluctant Warrior, May 2009
Chapter 10: The Warrior in Retreat
Chapter 11: The Icarus Project and the Future of Mad Pride
Prophets of Madness or Messiahs among Us?
Chapter 12: The Messianic or Postmodern Paradigm?
Chapter 13: The Relationship of Mad Pride to Messianic Transformation
Messianic Mission or Grandiose Delusions?
Chapter 14: Interview with Dr. Ed Whitney: Finding Oneself at the Age of Forty-five; Messianic Visions
Awakenings in History and Social Activism
Chapter 15: Cultural Revitalization Movements
The Second Great Awakening and the Messianic-Redemptive Vision
The 1960s and the New Spiritual Awakening
Chapter 16: Interview with Paul Levy: “They May Say I’m a Dreamer”
Chapter 17: Revitalization and the Messianic-Redemptive Vision of Sri Aurobindo
Chapter 18: Whither Mad Pride?
Extracts from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri