By keeping an art journal you can empower yourself to develop your intuition & creative superpowers - your innate ability to communicate effectively to yourself & to the world - your art journal may contain the expression of your personal thoughts & feelings - once visualized you can confront inner conflicts & fears & realize that they need not be so overwhelming.

I can honestly say I can't remember a time when I wasn't aware of what manic-depressive meant. It meant that mom was unpredictable"¦it meant that we might drive down to Florida tomorrow and camp on the beach, or she might disappear for a few months, and we would visit her in that scary scary place with all the funny people called MTMHI.

1st edition, a comprehensive look at how society both breeds and condemns madness. Keep checking http://www.freewebs.com/joeyonly for a second edition which when finished will have more statistics and quotes.

A multi-page rhizomatic web of words and images that constitute an "organic exploration of the schizophrenic self as an entity deeply embedded and interrelated within the social, the cultural, and the biological body"¦" With subsections on neurotheology, culture, semiotics, shamanism, psychosis, language, selfhood, economics, anti-psychiatry and much much more this is an ambitious and incredible piece of work.

The scope of this kaleidoscopic piece ranges across so many territories that it belongs on just about every page of our website. Caty's personal story of discarding the role of patient and the identity of a "mood disorder with legs" leads her from anger and alienation to The Freedom Center, where she finds true solidarity and discovers that engaging with her problems at the level of social activism can help her to heal herself and change the world.

Process Work is a strange and wonderful way of looking at and interacting with people and the world, developed by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues around the globe. Process Work can be applied to all aspects of human experience, including dreams, physical symptoms, relationships, music, creativity, extreme states of consciousness, death and dying, comas, conflict, group dynamics, and world issues.