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Headcase : LGBTQ writers & artists on mental health and wellness

Call Number

  • 616.89 H4328 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Physical Description

xxxii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces offer personal views from both providers and clients, often one and the same, about their experiences. In the anthology, readers will access the inner thoughts of an array of individuals, including: a therapist with dual status who also happens to be transgender and practicing in the Midwest; a lesbian writer and psychotherapist recounting her mother's experience with forced institutionalization, shock therapy, and "conversion therapy" in the 1950s; a queer illustrator presenting unique glyph illustrations that represent a panoply of identity-related questions and answers; an award-winning gay male writer discussing his struggle with depression publicly for the first time; and a trans activist of color writing about surviving madness in the inner city and how his community of mental health and social justice youth activists help each other thrive. Several contributors also document the difficulty of navigating flawed health care systems that limit affordable access to genuinely affirming, effective services. Cultural norms and barriers to accessibility have an enormous impact on the quality of care available to LGBTQ communities. Traversing boundaries of race and ethnic identity, age, gender identity, and socioeconomic status, Headcase should appeal to LGBTQ communities and, specifically, LGBTQ mental health consumers and their friends, families, and comrades."--

"A provocative collection of texts and artwork by mental health consumers and providers alike, HEADCASE: LBGTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness breaks new ground in documenting issues in LGBTQ mental health care with superbly written and powerfully rendered personal and political stories and images"--

Contents

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  • Introduction
  • Stephanie Schroeder, JD and Teresa Theophano, LMSW
  • Foreword
  • Kai Cheng Thom
  • I. Conversations about Mental Health and Wellness
  • 1. Falling Through the Cracks of Queer and Black
  • Tanisha Neely
  • 2. Queer-Affirmative Therapy
  • Arlene Istar Lev
  • 3. Not All Wounds Are Visible
  • Louisa Hammond
  • 4. Border/lines
  • Juan Antonio Trujillo
  • 5. Sa Kanyang Sariling Mga Salita: Health, Identity, and Articulations of Self
  • Donald V. Brown, Jr. with Fidelindo A. Lim
  • 6. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
  • Lynn Breedlove
  • 7. LGBTQ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues: A Provider's Journey
  • Joseph Ruggiero
  • 8. The Bone Crushing
  • Bill Konigsberg
  • II. Stories of Survival
  • 9. In Chiron's Footsteps
  • Paula J. Williams
  • 10. Not Our Fault
  • Chana Wilson
  • 11. Figuring it Out Together: Mental Health Survival Strategies from Detroit's Queer and Trans Youth of Color
  • Lance Hicks
  • 12. Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies)
  • Sullivan Voss
  • 13. The Family Legacy Ends Here
  • Teresa Theophano
  • 14. Roll the Dice and The Wall
  • Michael Brown
  • 15. Jesus and the Closets
  • Charlie Zaanti
  • 16. The Lived Experience of LGBTQ Veterans: Finding Support within the VA Healthcare System
  • Kathryn Wagner
  • III. Encounters of the Mad Kind
  • 17. Madhouse, Madhouse ... Memories of Incarceration
  • Kate Millett
  • 18. Surviving Science, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Mad and Queer
  • Calvin Rey Moen
  • 19. Knowing Reynolds
  • Lucy Winer
  • 20. On a Subway Platform, a Life Flashes
  • Here, Gone
  • Antoine B. Craigwell
  • 21. This Work Is About Digested Socks
  • Gabrielle Jordan Stein
  • 22. Taming My Inner Fundamentalist
  • Kelly Barth
  • 23. Fix Me Please; I'm Gay!
  • Guy Albert
  • 24. Crowdsourcing My Antipsychotic
  • Stephanie Schroeder
  • IV. Pushing Boundaries
  • 25. On Listening to Clients
  • Christian Huygen
  • 26. Problem Glyphs
  • Eliza Gauger
  • 27. Erasure and other poems
  • Gabriella M. Belfiglio
  • 28. Informed Consent
  • Ash Wickell
  • 29. Bad Penny
  • J.M. Ellison
  • 30. The Big Pink Elephant in the Therapy Room
  • Thomas Mondragon
  • 31. GLEAM
  • Nikkiesha N. McLeod
  • V. The Poetics of Mental Health and Wellness
  • 32. Outlier: The Agoraphobia Fragments
  • Kevin Shaw
  • 33. Were You Confused as a Child?
  • Stephen Mead
  • 34. Battling Depression as a Queer Mom
  • Crista Anne
  • 35. Doctor Anonymous: A Play, and a Lesson in Medical Ethics
  • Guy Fredrick Glass
  • 36. JEKYLL'S LOVER, T Is for Them, and Fools Gold
  • James Penha
  • 37. Feathers
  • Benjamin Klas
  • Contributor Bios
  • Acknowledgements
  • Resources.

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