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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
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 1: 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
David’s Story
Commentary on David’s Story and Interview
Part 2: 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
Part 3: Dangerous Gifts
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 4: Prophets of Madness or Messiahs among Us?
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 5: 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?
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
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
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