NYC organizer Neil Gong interned with Icarus as an NYU student and wrote this paper about Mad Pride activism.

Obscure but influential French psychiatrist Hubert Benoit tackles the confounding paradoxes of non-linear Zen teachings with methodical precision. This excerpt of one of his books is worth a slow and careful read.

MIND is the leading UK mental health charity. This is their excellent guide to coming off psychiatric drugs, available at http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Making+sense/Making+sense+of+coming+off+psychiatric+drugs.htm http://snipurl.com/MINDComingOffGuide

Despite the intimidating title, this is a very clearly written report, with input from people who've been through the system, of what is know and not known about 'mental illness.' Though it doesn't recognize the dangers of the 'atypical' drugs, the report is a great, solid-research antidote to biased info coming from Big Pharma and mainstream medical model psychiatry.

A great scholarly article about international expansion by Big Pharma and medical model mental health, looking at the World Health Organization and PTSD, by dissident UK psychiatrist Phil Thomas.

Excerpt from process work creator Arnold Mindell's book The Shaman's Body.