A newspaper featuring personal stories and advice from psychiatric survivors. Some of the writers involved in Counterpoint had a meet up to discuss and reclaim the word "madness" as it has been applied to those who are mentally ill. One woman details helping her brother through a crisis and coming to a better understanding of him and her place in the psychiatric survivors movement. There are poems by various writers. The therapeutic and rehabilitative qualities of writing and creating art are discussed.
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