Resource Guide
Take what works and leave the rest!
Peer Support and Direct Action
History & Art
Crisis Materials:
Helping Your Friends Who Sometimes Wanna Die Maybe Not Die by Carly Boyce
Mapping our Madness: A workbook for Navigating Crisis, Extreme States, or Just Foul Moods by Momo
Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence by Survived and Punished
Harm Reduction:
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs by the Icarus Project
Girls Do What They Have to Do to Survive by the Young Women’s Empowerment Project
Workbooks:
The Voice Inside: A Practical Guide to Coping with Hearing Voices by Paul Baker
Mental Health & Sexuality: Practicing Radical Consent as a Mad Person by Elliott Fukui
Crisis Lines (that don’t call the cops):
Books
Disability Incarcerated edited by Liat Ben-Moshe, Allison C. Carey, and Chris Chapman
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Johnathan Metzl
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Saving our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction by Shira Hassan
Open in Emergency: DSM II: Asian American Edition edited by Mimi Khúc
Articles
Descending into Madness: An Anarchist-Nihilist Diary of Anti-Psychiatry by Flower Bomb
Abolition Must Include Psychiatry By Stella Akua Mensah, edited by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
It is time for a community approach to mental health by Megan McGee