"...85% of our clients (all diagnosed as severely schizophrenic) at the Diabasis center not only improved, with no medications, but most went on growing after leaving us."

John Weir Perry, Trials of the Visionary Mind

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• Where are the thousands of former mental patients who got "Weller Than Well?" (Karl Menninger quote, questions raised.)

  Schizophrenia Study (PDF) Spring 2008 Offered by Nisha Fernandes Graduate student California School of Professional Psychology

• The "Weller Than Well" Project. Help us contact psychiatric survivors who had a breakthrough, not a breakdown, people who were transformed to a better level by their experience. Were you made stronger and better by a brush with psychiatry? (Leave messages and comments here.)

• The Minds of Psychiatrists Research Project

• Critical Issues the Media Ignores During "Mental Health Month" Every May

• A Special Message for Families and Friends of Someone Diagnosed as Having Schizophrenia

• A Beautiful Mind The story of Nobel prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. proves that psychiatrists are wrong about schizophrenia being a brain disease like Alzheimers and Parkinson's. However, the movie about Nash, a Beautiful Mind, starring actor Russell Crowe, is a misleading distortion of his story.

• "Beautiful Minds" Can Be Recovered An editorial authored by Courtenay M. Harding, Ph.D.

• Textbook for graduate students: A Schizophrenia Breakthrough

• Research reports and professional articles:

  Unethical Psychiatrists Misrepresent What is Known About Schizophrenia

  • How Non-Diagnostic Listening Led to a Rapid "Recovery" from Paranoid Schizophrenia (article reprint)

  • Unethical Psychiatrists Misrepresent What is Known About Schizophrenia (article reprint) WEGO Health
    Recommended Resource

  • What Is Wrong With Psychiatry? (article reprint)

  • What if Psychiatric Treatments Had to Meet FDA Standards for Effectiveness, Safety and Appropriateness?

  • Successful Schizophrenia: Similarities Between Nietzsche's UeberMensch and The Survivor Personality.

  • Psychiatry's Lack of Insight: Four Double-Binds that Place Patients in a Living Nightmare.

  • Internalized Stigma Erodes Morale by Jennifer Ritsher and Jennifer Bernstein

  • Psychiatrist Dissolves 35-year association with American Psychiatric Association (reprint) by Loren R. Mosher, M.D.

• Psychiatry's Lack of Insight: Missives from Patricia Lefave, D.D.(P.)
  • Speaking of Perception Problems
  • Schizogenesis: My Manufactured Madness
  • The Perfect Snare
  • "Stockholm" Syndrome: Souls Held Hostage in Psychiatry, Families and Workplaces
  • The Importance of Self Definition
  • The Psychiatric Tautology: Our Collective Nightmare
  • The Schizophrenic/Psychiatric Mirror: My Reflection on the Co-Dependent Dynamic
  • Back Through the Looking Glass
  • The "Game": And Its Assessment for Our Mad Messiahs
  • The Metaphysical Cause of So-Called "Schizophrenia": The Projected Duplicity
  • Dysfunctional Pyramids of Power: Those Who Create and Sustain Them

• Messages, Insights, and Wisdom From Psychiatric Survivors:
  • A Story of Survival, Courage and Transformation by Anonymous

  • Some of Us are Happy and Content in Our "Insanity" by Anonymous

  • Contrarian Psychiatrist Loren Mosher Dies of Liver Cancer by Adam Bernstein

  • Medical Error Story (Tragic Roundabout) by Diane Blakemore

  • Formally Schizo-Affective, Now "Weller than Well " by David Mitchell Boie

  • How I Trimphed Over Schizophrenia by Jimmy Cheah

  • Hard to Stay "Sane"by Jane Elam

  • Schizophrenia and My Mystical Journey by Ricky Gee

  • Mankind Suffers from Delusions by Per-Erik Larsson

  • Psychiatrists Don't Listen, They Diagnose and Prescribe by Susanna Lehtonen

  • The Convenience Factor in Psychiatry by Angel Moreno

  • Psychiatrist dissolves 5 year association with American Psychiatric Association by Loren R. Mosher, M.D.

  • Who took the spirit out of madness? by Odette Nightsky

  • Walking the Shamans Path: Not Schizophrenia, But Acute Sensitive by Odette Nightsky

  • Working With Clients Who Suffer from Acute Sensitivity (Schizophrenia): A word to the therapist by Odette Nightsky

  • Medications Freed Me From Paranoid Schizophrenia by Larry Podsobinski

  • I'm Med Free, But Some People Don't Want to Be by Reece Sanders

  • BE POSITIVE! This too shall pass by Leonard Shockley

  • My Unchosen Journey Through Mental Illness by Clover Smith

  • Caffeine Allergy: A Hidden Allergy and Toxic Dementia by Ruth Whalen(wego Health Featured Article)

  • My Spiritual Transformation Through Mental Illness by Winston Wu

• The Exchange: Shorter messages, stories, and essays sent to this web site shared.

• Archives for the Autobiographies of Psychiatric Survivors. Guidelines for sending unpublished manuscripts and personal stories.

• Bookstore and Resources

• Support Organizations

• Links to related sites.

• Contact Successful Schizophrenia