"Live Through This is a collection of portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors, as told by those survivors."
Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness In English (5th Edition)
This bibliography is in four sections (1) personal accounts of madness written by survivors themselves; (2) narratives written by family members; (3) anthologies and critical analyses of of the madness narrative genre; and (4) websites featuring oral histories and other first-person perspectives on madness.
Last revised December 2011 with assistance from Jenna Medaris, Mona Haddad, and Cheryl McGraw.
Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness In English (5th Edition)
Mad In America.com
"The site is designed to serve as a resource and a community for those interested in rethinking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad. We want to provide readers with news, stories of recovery, access to source documents, and the informed writings of bloggers that will further this enterprise."
Website published by Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In American and Anatomy of An Epidemic.
Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories: Implications for Contemporary Mental Health Policy
A Capstone Report by Oryx Cohen.
A Psychiatric Survivors Book Lost
Compiled by Eric Fabris, February 2007.
http://www.vermontrecovery.com/files/Download/PsychiatricSurvivorsBookList.pdf
Personal Stories and Perspectives
Compiled on the Boston University Center for Psychiatric Rehabiliation.
http://www.bu.edu/cpr/repository/articles/personal-stories-and-perspectives.html
Recovery Stories from the National Empowerment Center
Psychiatric Services: Personal Accounts
Collection of personal accounts of experiences of mental illness, as published in Psychiatric Services. Psychiatric Services is a journal published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/collection/first-person_accounts