Historical Documents

• Schizophrenia recovery stories from Schizophrenia.com
• The “Hidden Meaning” Behind My Recovery and Re-Integration, by Patricia Lefave
• Anchorage Daily News Article on Ionia
• The Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Oral History Project: Four Willard Psychiatric Center Stories
• “Self-Determination for People with Psychiatric Disabilities: Personal Obstacles and Facilitators,” Joseph A. Rogers & Susan Rogers
• My Story
• Mistaken for Schizophrenic
• Psychiatry’s Unholy Trinity–Fraud, Fear And Force: A Personal Account, by Leonard Roy Frank, appearing in Ideas on Liberty, August, 2002.
• Freedom by Irit Shimrat
• Jim Gottstein
• Life After Psychiatry by Wilma A. Boevink
• Recovery Stories from the National Empowerment Center
• Sparrow’s Story
• Andrea Hercha Schmook
• Overcoming the Impossible: My Journey Through Schizophrenia by Ronald Bassman, Ph.D.
• Recovery is possible by Tracey May
• No Picnic in Sight, by Eric Shapiro
• My Story, by Dan Fisher, M.D.
• My Story of Hope by Cheryl Allen
• Recovering as a “Religious Fanatic”
• Steven Honig: I Found My Place
• Recovery by Les Mitchell
• Discovering Recovery by Gene Deegan
• My Story of Defeats and Successes, by Mike Gladu
• Scott E. Huffman’s Adventures with Psychiatry
• The Long and Winding Road to Recovery by Jean Esplin
• Without Mask: Recovery is Possible by Tracey May
• My Name is Mara McWilliams
• Building a Career When Living with a Mood Disorder By “Sabina Morris”

• Recovery Resources on the Internet
• Inclusive Livable Communities for People with Psychiatric Disabilties, National Council on Disability, by Dan Fisher and Judi Chamberlin (2008)
• Successful Schizoprenia
• Top Ten Findings: Ohio Longitudinal Consumer Outcomes Study (1999)
• The Resiliency Center.
• How do We Recover? An Analysis of Psychiatric Survivor Oral Histories, by Oryx Cohen, in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol . 45 No. 3, Summer 2005 333-354
• Beautiful Minds Can Be Reclaimed, by Courtenay M. Harding, NY Times
• Benefits of Peer Provided Services and Drop In Centers
• Recovering and Recovery in Schizophrenia, VA in MindView, January, 2007.
• You Decide Who Decides-Yeah Right, by Anne Marsden
• Effective Therapy
• Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures, Volume II, from the Evaluation Center of Human Resources International, September, 2005.
• The Writer as Activist: Eric Shapiro Elaborates on Alternative Mental Health.
• Spirituality and Mental Illness by Diana Nielsen
• “Recovering” Consumers and a Broken Mental Health System in the United States: Ongoing Challenges for Consumers / Survivors and the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, by Athena McLean, Ph.D., International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 2003: 8, 47-68.
• Compilation of the briefing papers presented in October 2003, at The National Self-Determination and Psychiatric Disability Invitational Conference: We Make the Road by Traveling on It. The papers, written by people with psychiatric disabilities and other experts, were designed to summarize current knowledge about self-determination, and to suggest action steps for the future.
• Emile Kraepelin Reconsidered: Confronting The Possibility Of Recovery From Serious Mental Illness by Elizabeth Richter
• Mastering Life Series by Steven Honig
• Recovery Through Art by artist Mara McWilliams.
• Finding Our Voice! Ending The Silence by Mary Ellen Copeland
• Mental health recovery: what helps and what hinders? A national research project for the development of recovery facilitating system performance indicators
• Making Space, Spirituality and Mental Health, The Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial Lecture World Assembly for Mental Health Vancouver, July 2001 by Julie Leibrich
• Mental Health Recovery Links from the Recovery Directory
• Recovery at Rethink in the UK
• Whose Reality is it Anyway? Consumers/Survivors/Ex-Patients Can Speak for Themselves, by Ronald Bassman
• People Are More Important than Pills in Recovery from Mental Disorder, by Daniel Fisher
• The Recovery Model (PDF) by Les Mitchell
• Zuzu’s Place: Cooperative Living for Psychiatric Survivors
• Recovery, by Ruth O. Ralph, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service
• Motivation by Mary Ellen Copeland
• The Peer/Self-Advocacy Training Manual
• The Mental Health System: Recovery Should be the Goal by Jim Gottstein
• Self-Responsibility and Recovery by Andrea Hercha Schmook
• People can recover from mental illness, by Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. and Laurie Ahern
• What is Recovery? by Andrea Hercha Schmook
• Recovery is a Choice by Andrea Hercha Schmook
• CHOICES: Consumers Having Ownership In Creating Effective Services
• The International Model of Recovery and Reclamation
• Two Sides of Recovery by Wilma Boevink
• Recovery: Responsibilities and Roadblocks, by Jim Gottstein
• Recovery is a Process, Not an End by Terry DeRocher on Recovery
• Spiritual Forces and How They Affect Recovery by Andrea Hercha-Schmook
• Faith and Recovery by Andrea Hercha Schmook
• An American Definition of Independent Living
• People can recover from mental illness by Daniel Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. and Laurie Ahern
• Mental Health Recovery Links at the Recovery Directory
• Clutter Overwhelming You? By Mike Nelson, Executive Director, Clutterless Recovery Groups Inc.
• Relaxation and Stress Reduction from Mary Ellen Copeland’s Newsletter.
• RECOVERY: How Do You Get Yourself Going? by Andrea Hercha-Schmook
• Other Consumer Articles
• Understanding What Useful Help Looks Like: The Standards of Peer Support, by Cheryl MacNeil, Ph.D. and Shery Mead, M.S.W.

• Consumer Employment
• Listserv (e-mail List)
• organicMD.org is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to non-pharmaceutical commonsense health education. This website was written and created by physician-poet Hugh Mann, who was inspired by his personal odyssey and thirty years of medical practice.
• Shery Mead Consulting: Peer Support and peer run crisis alternatives in mental health.
• Wellness Tool-Organizing or Reorganizing by Mary Ellen Copeland
• Food
• Compeer
• Cat Therapy by Harold Bartko
• Spirituality by Les Mitchell
• Using Music in Therapy: The Power of Music as a Coping Skill
• Exercise: The Best Anti-Depressant by Mary Ellen Copeland
• Using the Arts to Recover Mental Health by Gayle Bluebird
• Music as an Aid to Recovery by Harold Bartko
• Hiking, Biking, Camping and Skiing, Swimming, and Seasonal Activities

• Consumer Articles on Recovery
• A Poem by Dorothy W. Dundas
• Mania as Spiritual Emergency, a personal account by Edward Whitney, MD, Psychiatric Services, December 1998 Vol. 49 No. 12
• Why I am not a Consumer by David Romprey
• The Need for Choice in the Mental Health System, By Denise Fletcher
• Forced vs. Voluntary Treatment, by Denise Fletcher
• Freedom by Irit Shimrat
• Stigma is Social Death by Deborah Reidy (1993)
• Julie Leibrich
  • Making Space, Spirituality and Mental Health, The Mary Hemingway Rees Memorial Lecture World Assembly for Mental Health Vancouver, July 2001 and Part I of a two-part invited presentation at the National Conference on Spirituality and Mental Health Melbourne, 29 &30 March 2004.
  • Standing Still: Spirituality and Sense, Part II of a two-part invited presentation at the National Conference on Spirituality and Mental Health Melbourne, 29 &30 March 2004.
• Professional Perspectives Regarding the Merit of the Role of the Consumer Specialist and the Responsibility Group, By Randy Starr
• A Successful Reintegration into the Community: One NGRI Acquittee’s Story By Randy Starr
• Sandwich Therapy, by Pat Risser
• Rae Says: an interview with Rae Unzickerby Lucy Gwin
• The Criteria of What Works and for Whom Part I by Sue Poole
• Absolute Care, by Sue Poole
• The Criteria of What Works and for Whom Part II by Sue Poole
• Notes on the 10th Triptych Convention, “Two Sides of Psychosis” by Mira DeVries
• Five Lobe Circus, by Alan Cabal, www.nypress.com, May 18, 2004
• The Diagnosis Myth, by Eric Shapiro
• Felicia
• Unhinged Mind by Bill Nordahl
• We’ve Been Misled by the Drug Industry, By Daniel B. Fisher
• Fighting for the right to live the life I deserve
• The Mentally Ill of America: “A People in Bondage” by Tom Barresi
• PsychoMuses by Bill
• The Trouble with Pact: Questioning the Increasing Use of Assertive Community Treatment Teams in Community Mental Health, by Patricial Spindel and Jo Anne Nugent.
• CHOICES – Consumers Having Ownership In Creating Effective Services. by Jim Gottstein
• The Peer/Self-Advocacy Training Manual
• The Power of One: Positive Affirmations
• A Light to Brighten The Path
• Three articles by Les Mitchell, New Zealand Consumer Advisor:
  • White Paper — Consumer Participation: A New Zealand Perspective (PDF Format)
  • Recovery
  • Spirituality
• Personal experiences with our Paid Friends. By Scot L. Wheat
• Through the Eyes of a Stranger by Micheal G. Spennato
• Breakin’ Trail
• Jails: A Less Restrictive Alternative?
• Steven Honig: I Found My Place
• Hoppin on the Bandwagon
• The Saucers Have Landed
• A Consumer Member’s Report on Alaska Mental Health Board Issues by Jim Gottstein
• A Story of My Mental Illness
• The Schizoaffective Coaster by Brian Benson
• Meeting Reports
• API 2000: Time to Reconsider? by Jim Gottstein
  • For another view see the Response by Loren Jones, CMH/API 2000 Project Director
  • Another view from a Soldotna Consumer

• Consumer Reports
  • Karen Hodge’s Alternatives 2001 Report
  • Aleen Smith’s Trip Report on Alternatives 2001 in Philadelphia.

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• June 14, 2004, Draft Memo from James B. Gottstein on Disability Justice: A Psychiatric Survivor’s Perspective.
• Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness by Gail Hornstein.
• Mental health recovery: what helps and what hinders? A national research project for the development of recovery facilitating system performance indicators
• Alaska Mental Health Board 2003 Budget Summit Report PDF Version.
• The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health issued its Final Report July 22, 2003.
• United States Supreme Court Lays Down rules for Medicating someone to make him/her competent to stand trial in Sell v. US. (PDF)
• SAMHSA Participatory Dialogues, a Guide to Organizing Interactive Discussions Between Consumers, Providers and Family Members
• Anchorage Emergency Services Pathways
• 7 AAC 71Community Mental Health Service Regulations (As amended through March 16, 2001)
• The Well Being of our Nation: An Inter-Generational Vision of Effective Mental Health Services and Supports (September 16, 2002) (PDF). Webpage Version.
• Performance Measures Pilot Project — Primary Phase Final Report
• DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, Fourth Revision)
• Standards for Community Mental Health Grantees for FY 05
  • Community Support Services
  • Consumer Involvement in Grantee Agencies
  • Grievance Redress
• Psychiatric Ethics: The Principles of Medical Ethics With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, 2001 Edition
• Consumer/Survivor-Operated Self-Help Programs: A Technical Report by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services (2001, PDF Format)
• Mental Health Performance Measures–Phase One Report tasked with identifying a set of performance measures for evaluation of the state’s public mental health system is now available (PDF Format)
• Computer and Internet Use Among People with Disabilities by H . Stephen Kaye, Ph. D. Disability Statistics Center Institute for Health and Aging
• The Trouble with Pact: Questioning the Increasing Use of Assertive Community Treatment Teams in Community Mental Health, by Patricial Spindel and Jo Anne Nugent.
• Alaska Statutes relating to Grievance Procedures
• Regulation regarding grantee Governing Board makeup.
• Enforcing the ADA A Status Report from the Department of Justice (October – December 1999).
• Alaska Mental Health Board 1999 Annual Report
  • Quality Assurance Reports
  • The Alaska Mental Health Board’s Report on DMHDD’s FY99 Integrated Quality Assurance Program.
• Surgeon General Issues Report on Mental Health with remarks by Larry Fricks Director, Office of Consumer Relations Georgia Department of Mental Health. The Report has a number of sections about consumer issues:
  • History of the consumer movement,
  • Consumer Self Help
  • Consumer Operated Programs
  • Recovery
• The Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (HTML format). PDF Version. Summary.
• A Shared Vision II, The Alaska Mental Health Strategic Plan 1999-2003
  • HTML Version
  • PDF Version (650 kb)
• 1999 Comprehensive Integrated Mental Health Plan ( 7/19/99)
• Mental Health Parity Task Force (updated 3/23/99) – Final Report
• Summary of Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 as passed by Senate.
• Report on Barriers to Employment (September 1998)
• Transforming API: A New Vision of Alaska’s Mental Health System
• What is Managed Care?
• Why the Internet is Important to Consumers
• The Disability Law Center’s draft Goals and Priorities. The deadline for the public comment was Friday, September 10, 1999.
• Mental Health Lands Trust (Jim Gottstein’s and David Walker’s Article on the Trust Litigation):
  • Section 202 of the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act (1956 Law creating the Trust)
  • State v. Weiss (1985 Alaska Supreme Court Decision holding Trust abolishment illegal)
  • Chapter 132 SLA 1986
  • Chapter 48 SLA 1987
  • Chapter 66 SLA 1991 (amended by Chapter 5 FSSLA 1994 and Chapter 1 SSSLA 1994)
  • Chapter 5 FSSLA 1994 (Settlement Legislation)
  • Settlement Agreement (and Stipulation of Dismissal)
  • Chapter 1 SSSLA 1994 (Amendment to Settlement Legislation)
  • Final Trial Court Trust Settlement Approval Decision
  • Order (of Dismissal)
  • April 24, 1997 Memorandum Decision and Order (Exhibit D). (3.1 MB)
  • Weiss v. State (1997 Alaska Supreme Court Decision approving Settlement)
  • Mental Health Trust Land Regulations
  • October 27, 2003 Memo from James B. Gottstein, Re: Modification and Enforcement Provisions of the Trust Settlement
  • Kenaston v. State of Alaska
  • December 9, 2004, Panel Discussion at the Alaska Mental Health Board on the history and purpose of the Trust.
  • August 22, 2005, Memorandum Re: Selection of Alaska Mental Health Board and Alaska Board on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.