Books
Community
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Humble Inquiry, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein
Cultural Humility
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
We Do This ‘til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Holistic Trauma Recovery
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Liberated to the Bone by Susan Raffo
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity by David I. Rome
Psychiatric Liberation
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker (page 40)
Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth (page 44 under Deinstitutionalization)
Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, And The Enduring Mistreatment Of The Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
My Lobotomy: A Memoir by Howard Dully
Psychiatry Under the Influence by Robert Whitaker
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson (page 39)
Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement by Linda Morrison
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penney
Articles
Advocacy
“A Round-up and Re-frame of the Community Care Conversation” by Yashna Maya Padamsee
“From chaos to ecosystem: A tool for social change” – a conversation with Deepa Iyer about the Social Change Ecosystem Map
“The Role of Recovery Support Services in Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care: White Paper” by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Building Movement Project’s map of the ecosystem of social change by Deepa Iyer
Holistic Trauma Recovery
“A Breakdown: 3 Suicide Prevention Myths” by Jennifer Tirado, Alternatives to Suicide Network Coordinator
Psychiatric Liberation
“‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in a Loved One?” by Sam Ruck
“Involuntary Outpatient Commitment and the Fight to Keep it Out of Massachusetts” by Sera Davidow
“Psychiatry and Oppression: A Personal Account of Compulsory Admission and Medical Treatment” by Benjamin Gray
“Reality According to Whom? Listening to My Wife—and The Problems with ‘Psychosis’” by Sam Ruck