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The Icarus Project offers a variety of zines, books, posters, postcards, and stickers that you can distribute in your community and use for yourself. To order individual copies of our reader, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, please get in touch with our main distributor, AK Press. To get copies of our support manual, stickers, postcards, or posters, or to order more than 5 copies of our reader, please e-mail us directly at: orders AT theicarusproject DOT net.

Download our publications price sheet flyer

Download a one-page promotional flyer about the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Medications, with ordering instructions.

If you're looking for radical mental health related zines, check out the Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective lunAcy distro page .

Materials for Download

We've assembled a collection of graphics, flyers, posters, infosheets, and exercises that you can download, print, copy, and hang on your walls or distribute in your community.

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Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness Reader

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/10/2006 - 4:56pm.
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Our first book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness; A Reader and Roadmap of Bipolar Worlds, was self-published in March 2004. The book is currently in its 5th printing.

Links and Images Feed

Submitted by will on Wed, 08/09/2006 - 11:17am.
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Check out our continuously updated web news feed via Del.ici.ous and our image feed via Flickr.

Want to contribute links or images? Join Del.icio.us and Flickr and tag content with 'icarusproject' and it will automatically be added.

Web Links

Submitted by will on Thu, 08/03/2006 - 11:57am.
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A collection of art, personal accounts, human rights activism, holistic health, advocacy, politics, science, media, and other links from outside the medical model and the corporate mainstream.

Got a link to contribute? Add it here as a comment or add it to our link feed.

Distributors

Submitted by icarus on Sat, 05/20/2006 - 3:53pm.
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Getting Icarus Project Materials

If you are interested in getting copies of our publcations, promotional postcards, stickers, or our posters, please e-mail orders@theicarusproject.net.

Ordering Books/Zines

AK Press, worker-run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles out of Oakland, California. Check out their amazing inventory, including our book, online at the AKPress Website.

Madness Radio Weekly

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 1:53am.
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Icarus and Freedom Center co-produce a weekly radio show on all things madness-related, syndicated through Pacifica. Guests range from author Kate Bornstein and Adbusters publisher Kalle Lasn to Icarus Project members and anyone who has been through extreme states of madness. Ask your local station to broadcast the show! Check it out at www.madnessradio.net; archives and podcast available.

Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Submitted by Icarus Project on Sat, 09/29/2007 - 9:54pm.
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The Icarus Project and Freedom Center's 40-page guide gathers the best information we've come across and the most valuable lessons we've learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medications, and much more. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara. Download a .pdf to read or a 'zine version to print and fold into a booklet (instructions included). Published copies also available on our Publications page.

Help Getting To Sleep - handout

Submitted by will on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 7:07pm.
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A simple handout on helping people get to sleep.

First Aid for Emotional Trauma - handout

Submitted by will on Sun, 08/12/2007 - 7:05pm.
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A two-page handout on what emotional trauma is and how to work to heal it, written by Will Hall and based on Peter Levine, Hakomi, Judith Herman, and Process-Oriented Psychology.

Handouts on Group Facilitation

Submitted by will on Sat, 06/23/2007 - 4:14pm.
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A collection of cool teachings on group facilitation borrowed mostly from the Rockwood Institute for a Freedom Center training, downloadable as a pdf.

New Introduction to the 5th Printing of "Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness"

Submitted by ashley on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 10:29pm.
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It is Spring 2006, 2 years after Sascha and Ashley self-published the first 1000 copies of this barely-proofread zine/book, threw them in the back of my truck, and launched into a guerrilla speaking tour of bookstores, infoshops, colleges, community centers, mental health clinics, and activist houses across the country. Looking back at how the Icarus Project has changed with fresh eyes and new perspectives, this is Ashley's Re-Introduction to the latest edition of the Navigating the Space reader.

Friends Make the Best Medicine: Icarus Support Manual Draft

Submitted by will on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 4:53pm.
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Download and print out the first draft of our long-awaited Support Manual, titled Friends Make the Best Medicine: A Guide to Creating Community Mental Health Support Networks.

Icarus Poster: Friends Make the Best Medicine

Submitted by ashley on Sun, 10/08/2006 - 5:18pm.
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This poster was created by Ashley McNamara for the Jolie Holland/Bonfire Madigan benefit show in February 2006. You can order beautiful full-color 11 x 17 copies by e-mailing orders AT theicarusproject DOT net

Icarus Poster: Taking Care of The Basics

Submitted by will on Sat, 10/07/2006 - 2:52pm.
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This is a comic Sophie Crumb made for us about being sure you eat good food, sleep, exercise, take your meds/herbs/etc., and have some kinda schedule to keep you from getting too crazy"¦ This version is designed with a smaller Icarus Project logo to fit nicely on an 8 1/2" x 11" sheet.

Icarus Poster: Dangerous Gifts Support Group

Submitted by will on Sat, 10/07/2006 - 2:51pm.
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This image, a comic about looking for your people at the "National Association for the Eradication of Mental Illness" and finding them at The Icarus Project instead, was designed by Becky Cloonan. This version has a smaller Icarus logo at the bottom and is designed to print just right on an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper. We also offer an 11" x 17" printed version for sale by mail.

Icarus Project Sticker: You Are Not Alone

Submitted by ashley on Sat, 10/07/2006 - 12:31pm.
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You are Not Alone Sticker PreviewCheck out our recently printed sticker, which features the Icarus Project's "You are not alone" stencil surrounded by the text "Building Radical Mental Health Supports in a World Gone Mad ... www.theicarusproject.net."

Recommended Health Provider Guidelines & Directory

Submitted by will on Thu, 08/03/2006 - 11:11am.
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Know a health care practitioner -- mainstream, alternative, or otherwise -- who shares the Icarus perspective on experiences labeled mental illness? Add them to our list of Recommended Providers.

Here is a list of guidelines for what qualifies them for including in the directory; email supportATtheicarusproject.net with the details and we will include them on the list.

Icarus Promotional Postcards

Submitted by will on Mon, 07/31/2006 - 12:47pm.
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icarus postcard thumbnailBeautiful full-color promotional postcards with images from Eric Drooker and Ashley McNamara. Cards are available by mail or by download.

Skillshares, Trainings, and Speaking Engagements

Submitted by icarus on Mon, 07/17/2006 - 11:29am.
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Icarus staff have done public speaking across the US and even in Europe, we've organized skillshares, and we ar developing trainings for organizers and peer counselors. We work on an ability-to-pay basis: if you might want to set something up in your community, contact us!

Link to Icarus!

Submitted by icarus on Sun, 07/16/2006 - 9:49am.
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Code to copy and paste for an Icarus button/badge/banner on your site or blog, as well as the Icarus news and photo feeds.
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