JOANNE GREENBERG, author of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (now a Penguin Classic), Jeffrey Fortuna and Chuck Knapp, both long-time psychotherapists and former agency directors, challenge the common belief that psychosis, schizophrenia, and other severe mental health struggles inevitably lead to lifelong decline.
Instead, they reveal a more hopeful reality: many people do heal, grow, and reclaim meaningful lives. Through moving stories, thoughtful reflections, and compassionate clinical wisdom, this book explores the power of relationship, community, dignity, and the enduring sanity that can remain present even in times of profound distress.
Most of Us Recover offers a fresh and deeply human look at extreme mental states, healing, and what recovery can truly mean. For readers seeking a more humane and realistic perspective on mental health recovery, this book offers insight, encouragement, and possibility.
“Most Of Us Recover is a distinctive and quietly inspiring alternative to the scores of books offering pat solutions to human suffering. The three authors—who come to this work from very different backgrounds—clearly recognize how hard it can be to emerge from extreme mental states and to accept that change happens at its own pace. Sharing their own painful experiences as therapists and patients, the authors embrace a refreshing vulnerability and authenticity that is sadly rare in the field of mental health. With “eyes open for islands of clarity,” they convey their unshakable belief in the medicinal power of relationship, and in people’s capacity to heal, no matter what their circumstances or how long they have suffered.”
GAIL A. HORNSTEIN
PhD, Prof. Emerita of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, and author of To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness