Contents

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Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Kate Millett

Preface

INTRODUCTION

Discovering the Higher Sanity within Madness

Insanity and Madness

From Mental Patients’ Liberation to Mad Pride

Repudiation of the Psychiatric Narrative

The Sociobiological Function of Madness: The Spiritual Evolution Narrative

Mad Pride in Transition

What Is to Be Done? Adopting a High Messianic Perspective

Part One

The Failure of the Psychiatric System and the Biomedical Myth

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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

David’s Story

Commentary on David’s Story and Interview

Part Two

The Intellectual Background of Mad Pride

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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

Part Three

Dangerous Gifts

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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

Part Four

Prophets of Madness or Messiahs among Us?

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Chapter 12: The Messianic or Postmodern Paradigm?

The Postmodern Vision

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

Part Five

Awakenings in History and Social Activism

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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?

EPILOGUE

Beating the System

The Hero’s Journey

APPENDIX

Extracts from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri

Footnotes

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company

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