Book Resources
It is essential to craft your own understanding of living, and to recognize truth and reality aligned with your lived experience and inner wisdom. On this page you will find a selection of the books, films, podcasts, practices and online resources that have shaped Wisdom of Psychosis — and that continue to nourish this community. The full bibliography and all articles can be found in the book.
Guided visualisation and breathing practices coming soon. If you feel a resource is missing; one that has shaped your own journey — you are warmly invited to suggest it using the form at the bottom of this page.
crisis and support
If you or someone you love is in immediate crisis:
United States:
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988
- Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
- SAMHSA National Helpline: 1-800-662-4357
International:
- International Association for Suicide Prevention: iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres
- Befrienders Worldwide: befrienders.org
Netherlands:
- 113 Zelfmoordpreventie: 0800-0113 or 113.nl
- Sensoor: 0900-0767
Essential Reading
These foundational books have significantly shaped the perspectives in Wisdom of Psychosis.
- Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal — Peter Breggin
- Rockefeller Medicine Men — E. Richard Brown
- Psychosis and Spirituality — Isabel Clarke
- History of Madness — Michel Foucault
- Spiritual Emergency — Stanislav & Christina Grof
- Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté
- The Polyvagal Theory — Stephen Porges
- Making Sense of Voices — Marius Romme & Sandra Escher
- No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz
- The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
- Anatomy of an Epidemic — Robert Whitaker
The complete bibliography of 200+ references is available in Wisdom of Psychosis.
Films, Podcasts & Poetry
Films:
- Cracked Up (2018) — Darrell Hammond’s journey through childhood trauma and recovery
- Crazywise (2017) — Indigenous and Western approaches to mental health and consciousness
- Healing Voices (2016) — The Hearing Voices Movement and alternative approaches
- Medicating Normal (2021) — The human cost of medicating everyday distress
- Take These Broken Wings (2008) — Recovery from schizophrenia without medication
- The Girl from the Other Side (2022) — Themes of innocence, separation and mysterious bonds
- The Desert of the Real (2026) — How to live in a world of madness?
Podcasts:
- The Original Medicines — Anneke Sips. Where trauma, spirituality and consciousness meet
- The Emerald — Josh Schrei. Mythic, imaginative storytelling restoring the animate heart of human experience
- Mad in America — Alternatives to conventional psychiatry with researchers and survivors
- Psychosenet Podcast — Jim van Os in conversation with people with lived experience
- Telepathy Tapes — Investigating consciousness and extraordinary human abilities
Poetry & Spoken Word:
- The Nutritionist — Andrea Gibson
Companion Playlist:
These songs held me through the writing — through difficult passages, long nights, moments when I needed stillness and moments when sound found me. Music can be medicine. Some of these songs were written as exactly that. Each one connects to the themes in this book — moving through different states of consciousness: the descent, the dissolution, the slow return.
Listen as you read, or let these songs be a companion to your own integration work. If you know a song that belongs here — something that captures the journey through darkness toward emergence — I’d love to hear it.
Online Resources & Practices
Essential Understanding:
- IFS Institute — Learn about IFS and find trained therapists
- Polyvagal Institute — Understanding nervous system regulation
- Compassion Focused Therapy — Developing the calm, compassionate system within
- Compassion for Voices — Compassionate approaches to hearing voices
- Satsangam Life Map — Interconnectedness of Indian knowledge systems
Expanded Perspectives:
- Eleanor Longden — The Voices in My Head — TED Talk
- Compassion for Voices — Understanding voices with compassion
- Phil Borges — Psychosis or Spiritual Awakening — TEDx Talk
Research:
- Stanford Medicine — Keto & Mental Health — Nutritional approaches to mental wellness
- UMC Utrecht — Genetics & Mental Health — Understanding that genes aren’t destiny (Dutch)
Supportive Practices:
- Earth Care — Permaculture design growing toward abundance and connection
- Live Ayur Prana — Yogic approaches to mental health and consciousness
- Mana O Kahiko — Traditional Hawaiian knowledge and wisdom
- Self-Compassion — Kristin Neff’s research and practices
- Svastha Yoga — Yoga and Ayurveda in the Krishnamacharya tradition
- The Mythic Body — Into the animate heart of cosmos and consciousness
- Veda Studies — Traditional Vedic understanding of consciousness
Therapy & Practices
If you are looking for therapy or training that integrates ancient wisdom with modern approaches to altered states and psychosis:
Anneke Sips:
- TERRAPY Training (regenerative, interative)
- IFS for altered states
- Trauma-informed psychotherapy and yoga therapy
Training & Professional Development:
- IFS Institute — IFS therapy training including applications for psychosis and trauma
- IAYT — International Association of Yoga Therapists
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute — Body-centred trauma treatment
- Polyvagal Institute — Polyvagal Theory applications for therapy
Looking for a practitioner in your area? The Wisdom Keepers Directory is a growing collection of practitioners, healers and guides who work at the edges of conventional care — with presence, curiosity and deep experience.
Not sure where you belong in all this? Take 2 minutes to find out whether you are a Seeker, an Ally, or a Wisdom Keeper — and discover what this community has to offer you.