Hearing Distressing Voices in China
Recently I invited Lu Chen and Dr. Jian to my home. Both are from mainland China and are...
Love and Outrage: Asylum for the Colored Insane
This is the second entry for my Love and Outrage project. Starting in the early 1990's, I became...
Love and Outrage: The Crazy Woman
In the early 1990's I became interested in, not just individual recovery, but our collective...
Dignity and the Open Door
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, coined the well known phrase, “When one...
Mental Illness Made Me Do It?
12-step recovery programs have long understood that making amends to those we have harmed, even...
ROAD TRIP - 13 Peer Run Decision Support Centers
Check out this amazing 3-min video for a whirlwind tour of 13 peer-run Decision Support Centers...
What's Your Recovery Playlist?
Thinking back over my recovery, self-discovery and healing, I am reminded of the music...
Dignity: How Do You Roar?
I gave a keynote titled Dignity: How Do You Roar? at the 36th Annual NYAPRS Conference in...
How a Weighted Blanket Helps
Have you ever been to the dentist and had the experience of having a "lead apron" put on you...
First Nation Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians
Recovery and self-discovery are not just a personal journey. None of us are free until we are all...
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Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
