Lunching with Lunatics: Adventures of a Maverick Psychologist

by Seth Farber

This entertaining, bizarre, funny, mystical poetic book reads like fiction but it is a true story. After a number of years practicing therapy Dr Seth Farber concludes that radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing was right: Schizophrenics are the avant-garde of a cultural revolution to liberate the imagination from the fetters of conformity. Farber's convictions on this topic are so strong that the reader is not really surprised when Farber falls in love with Carla, then Lily-both "schizophrenics," and mad as the mad hatter. This book is an affirmation of a vision of life beyond sanity and insanity as we know them.

Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist (he received his doctorate in 1984),visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter of animal rights) and co-founder of the Network Against Coercive Psychiatry (1988). His newest and most important book was just released in May,The Spiritual Gift of Madness:The Failure of Psychiatry and the Rise of the Mad Pride Movement. (The Foreword is written by internationally renowned writer, feminist and human rights advocate Kate Millett, author of Sexual Politics and The Loony Bin Trip.)Dr Farber has had four books published previously, including a book on Jewish critics of Israel, and numerous essays and articles. A critic of the mental health system, he has been a guest on many television and radio shows. His first book Madness, Heresy and the Rumor of Angels: The Revolt Against the Mental Health System (Open Court, Chicago, 1993) contained a foreword by Thomas Szasz. The publication of his memoir Lunching with Lunatics: Adventures of a Renegade Psychologist has been postponed until the time is propitious.(See excerpts below right.) Dr Farber is also an editor of the pioneering scholarly review The Journal of Mind and Behavior. He can be reached at seth17279@​aol.com
(sethhfarber.com)