Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 9 am - 6 pm
202 E. Washington St., 4th floor, Room 400-B, in downtown Ann Arbor
Please stop in, have some cookies, check out the locale, and get questions about recovery-oriented non-pathologizing services answered. All are welcome: service users, family members, professionals, students. Please feel free to call with any questions.
Thursday, 1/26/2012, 6:30-8 pm
Rebecca's office (202 E. Washington St., 4th floor, Room 400-B). Free.
This month we discuss I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, the classic autobiography by Joanne Greenberg about her full recovery from severe childhood schizophrenia in the days before medications. The moderator has met Ms. Greenberg & will share film clips from a documentary made when she was 77 years old. Learn about her early life, the psychoanalytic treatment which helped her get well, & what happened after the publication of her story under a pseudonym. All are welcome.
Thursday, 2/23/2012, 6:30-8 pm
Rebecca's office (202 E. Washington St., 4th floor, Room 400-B). Free.
This month we are reading A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar’s biography of Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, John Forbes Nash. Dr. Nash served as Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton & did groundbreaking work--despite coping for decades with what professionals call paranoid schizophrenia. After 12 years of hospitalization, medications, & insulin coma, Dr. Nash declined further treatment. Read about his experience of recovery & his thoughts on creativity & psychosis. If you’ve only seen the film, learn how reality was distorted to fit our popular conceptions.
Tuesdays, 4-5 pm
Ann Arbor Friends Meetinghouse, 1420 Hill St. Free. 734-709-2183
HEARING VOICES NETWORK: Be part of this self help group that provides a safe place for people to explore voice hearing & other unusual mental experiences. HVN is well known in Europe with a 25-year history of nurturing recovery by valuing acceptance, creative coping, & freedom of expression.
For more information click on these: intervoiceonline or WorkingToRecovery.