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From Publishers Weekly Hornstein, a professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke, investigates personal testimonies of madness for what they can teach us about mental illness and its treatment. The author spent several years attending meetings of survivors' groups, such as the Hearing Voices Network in the U.K., whose members hear voices but reject the notion that they are mentally ill. In addition to these stories, Hornstein presents many forms of personal expression by those suffering from mental illnesses, including archived video recordings, writings through history and the artwork of the Prinzhorn collection (of which the eponymous jacket is an example), the basis for the modern understanding of outsider art. Hornstein concludes that mental illness is primarily based in trauma, as opposed to the dominant view of biological and hereditary origins. Behind the psychiatric profession's attachment to such views she sees, as do other psychiatric dissidents, the profiteering influence of prescription drug companies. A wealth of compelling characters includes the eccentric and the heartbreakingly resilient. Despite some repetition of narrative detail, the fascinating avenues Hornstein pursues and the humanity and thoroughness of this exploration make a serious contribution to critiques of contemporary psychiatry. (Apr.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more From Booklist Fed up with medical professionals who overmedicate and dontlisten to patients diagnosed as mentally ill because they hear voices, voice hearers are prominent in the psychiatric survivor movement. Hornstein, with 30 years experience as a psychologist and a fascination with the movement and other efforts by the mentally ill to speak for themselves, here offers a totally engrossing look at their testimony. She switches between accounts of developments in Britain, with its Mental Health Testimony Project, and incipient efforts in the U.S. She is candid in noting that these are not case studies but individual portraits. Hornstein intersperses historical accounts of voice hearers trying to communicate their experiences, including Agnes Richter, a German woman who stitched messages all over a jacket she wore, messages that were considered indecipherable. Hornstein argues for the need to try to decipher or listen to the narratives of people who are considered mad. She challenges treatments, including psychiatric drugs, that assume mental illness is a matter of chemical imbalance. 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