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Foreword by Kate Millett Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Discovering the Higher Sanity within Madness Part One The Failure of the Psychiatric System and the Biomedical Myth 1 Interview with Peter Stastny, M.D.: The Psychiatric-Pharmaceutical Complex and Its Critics 2 The Mind Freedom Hunger Strike 3 Interview with David Oaks: From Harvard to the Psychiatric Survivors Movement Part Two The Intellectual Background of Mad Pride 4 Mental Patients Liberation 5 R. D. Laing, John Weir Perry, and the Sanctuary for Visionaries 6 Interview with Chaya Grossberg: Spiritually Informed Social Activism 7 Interview with Caty Simon: The Communitarian Vision Part Three Dangerous Gifts 8 The Roots of The Icarus Project 9 Interview with Sascha DuBrul: The Reluctant Warrior, May 2009 10 The Warrior in Retreat 11 The Icarus Project and the Future of Mad Pride Part Four Prophets of Madness or Messiahs among Us? 12 The Messianic or Postmodern Paradigm? 13 The Relationship of Mad Pride to Messianic Transformation 14 Interview with Dr. Ed Whitney: Finding Oneself at the Age of Forty-five; Messianic Visions Part Five Awakenings in History and Social Activism 15 Cultural Revitalization Movements 16 Interview with Paul Levy: They May Say Im a Dreamer 17 Revitalization and the Messianic-Redemptive Vision of Sri Aurobindo 18 Whither Mad Pride? Epilogue Beating the System Appendix Extracts from Sri Aurobindos Savitri Notes Bibliography Index
