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1. Prologue
2. Wrong Turn at Yosemite
The First Day of the Rest of His Life
The Second Crash
"I'm Being Devoured by Tigers"
The Gospel According to St. John's
Oh, Yes, the Car
San Francisco General
3. "The Brightest Little Boy in the Whole Park"
Derelict Keys
The Journals
Parenthood: No Statute of Limitations
Insomnia-or, "Do I Have Genius?"
"... Or Shall I Go Mad?"
The Wanderer
The Rationalist
4. "One More Bloody Year of Reed"
Year Two-Two Immortalities
Once More to the Underworld
"A Nice Birthday Present for Sis"
A Layman's Guide to Major Mental Illness
Delirious Mania
The Muse Is a Harsh Mistress
Who's Crazy?
Madness: Divine or Not? Two Views
5. M. Butterfly and Mr. Lithy
Getting Back on the Horse
M. Butterfly
Mr. Lithy
Three on a Honeymoon
Fight and Flight
"I'm Sorry to Have to Tell You This, Sir ..."
My Drug Epiphany; or, The Morphine Connection
"Some Failed Romantic Relationship"
Eight West
6. Weaving the Shroud
"A Desire Leading One to Death"
The Suicidologist
The (Almost) Smoking-Gun Pamphlet
River Community
Another Nail
Home Alone
Groundlessness, Common Ground and
the Future of Psychiatry
Footnote to 1995
7. The Final Year
"A Place of Stopping, Not of Recuperation.."
NAMI
Treating the Disease or Treating the Person?
The Rehab Model
Good Minutes, Good Hours
"And I Believe I Shan't Ever Return"
(The Quiet Hell of August)
8. The Stone Cross
All Saints' Day
Obituary
The "Iawaska" Mystery Solved
Sunday Afternoon in the Psych Ward with the Kids
9. Epilogue
A View from the Bridge
Acknowledgments
Appendices
Appendix A-Selected Poems of Charley's
Appendix B-Short Story (The Pool Lesson)
Appendix C-Apples, Big Apples and Tangerines
Appendix D-Charley's Smoking List
Appendix E-Contact Information for Alternative
Recovery Facilities
Notes
Selected Bibliography