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Take These Broken Wings, a full-length documentary, shows that it is possible to recover fully from schizophrenia (that is, become completely symptom-free) and live without psychotropic medication.  The film documents the lives of two ISPS-US members:  Joanne Greenberg, whose bestselling autobiographical novel I Never Promised You A Rose Garden chronicles her recovery from schizophrenia through her therapy with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann; and Catherine Penney, whose story of recovery from schizophrenia has been told in Dante’s Cure by her therapist, Daniel Dorman, M.D., also an ISPS-US member.

Through in-depth interviews with Greenberg and Penney, and with various people close to them (i.e. Daniel Dorman, MD; Joanne Greenberg’s husband; Catherine Penney’s boyfriend; various friends and acquaintances), the film shows not only that both women were in fact once schizophrenic and no longer are, but highlights the process by which they recovered.  Additionally, the film explores, vis-à-vis their recovery process, the pros and cons of the various psychiatric medications and treatments they received, as well as the potential universality of their recovery, that is, the degree to which their stories might apply to others with schizophrenia.

The film also interweaves footage of a variety of top therapists, psychiatrists, and mental health lawyers and advocates, most of whom are ISPS-US members, including Bert Karon, PhD (author of Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia), Ann Silver, M.D. (Psychoanalysis and Psychosis), Robert Whitaker (Mad In America), Peter Breggin, M.D. (Toxic Psychiatry), Grace Jackson, M.D. (Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs), Jim Gottstein, JD (of psychrights.org), and David Oaks (director of MindFreedom).

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