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Alice Feller, MD is a writer and a clinical psychiatrist. She has worked in private practice, hospital emergency rooms, psychiatric wards, chemical dependency programs and public clinics in East Oakland and beyond. Her writing, focused on mental health, addiction and homelessness, has appeared in the East Bay Express, the Laney Tower, CalMatters, fort da and Interconnecting Circles, as well as the opinion pages of the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. She has served two terms on the City of Berkeley Homeless Commission and is an analyst member of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She lives with her husband and daughter in Berkeley, California.
This important and engaging book describes a complex national crisis through the lens of one thoughtful psychotherapist's life experience. Alice Feller has worked in almost every part of our fragmented mental health 'system'. Her book--part memoir, part policy discussion--helps the reader understand the causes of the crisis, the frustration of being a participant in a failing system, and what policy and program changes are needed to restore our communities to true mental health. --Loni Hancock, former California State Senator, California State Assemblymember, mayor of Berkeley, and Berkeley City councilmember Alice Feller's American Madness is a must-read if you're at all interested in the mental health crisis besetting this country. Dr. Feller embodies the staggering complexities of our system in vivid human stories. Her book is entertaining, illuminating, and absolutely necessary. --David Schweidel, author of What Men Call Treasure: the Search For Gold at Victorio Peak and Confidence of the Heart I can't recommend American Madness enough. Alice Feller uses anecdotes drawn from her years of practice as a psychiatrist to convey, in a few strokes, the realities of serious mental illness, not only from the perspective of the provider but also in the experience of the patient. The writing is engaging and the vignettes flow smoothly in a way that is accessible and illuminating for the general public and those dealing with these issues in their own lives. She defines anosognosia, the inability by many with serious mental illnesses to have insight into their condition, in the clearest way I have seen. The personal narratives culminate in the final expository chapters, where Dr. Feller evaluates our mental health system and its failures. Most importantly, her heart and commitment to her patients comes through, and I wonder how different our outcomes might be if the system didn't make it so hard for these patient-first attributes to guide treatment. --Patricia Fontana, activist and co-founder, Voices of Mothers
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