ForLikeMinds: Mental Illness Recovery Insights

by Katherine Ponte, Larry Davidson (Foreword)

“I have been waiting for over 30 years for someone to write a book like this - an instructive and very practical guide - directly applicable to the everyday lives of persons living with mental illnesses and their loved ones - offering them a hand and leading them step by step through many of the lessons Katherine has had to learn mostly on her own - from creative, dogged, and prolonged efforts to find a way to build and maintain a full life in the face of a serious illness”Larry Davidson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University

310 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2020

Reviews

[Christine Pestillo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good book for all involved in a loved one's mental illness journey: what to do, what can be done, what to ask, how to help, how to work with a psychiatrist, explain what it is like to have mental illness, different perspectives, etc.

[Websterdavid3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have great admiration for Katherine Ponte and her willingness to share the tough and beautiful parts of her life and bipolar disorder, etc. Disclosure: we had the chance to meet her as a coach in dealing with family/mental illness issues.
There is a lot of useful and hard-to-find information. The book is made up of many 1-3 page blogs from the National Alliance for Mental Illness-- mostly by the author, some by Larry Davidson who provides some academic angles on peer support, disorders, rehab, etc [they both teach at Yale].
so it does not hold together as a cogent set of chapters, more like collection of essays.
Thank you Katherine.