Introduction: What works when nothing has worked? / Peter D. Kramer Editor's note: Overcoming institutional failure / Lee Gutkind Foreword: Beyond despair: the gift of recovery / Karen Wolk Feinstein Playing cards with Mr. Newman / J. Timothy Damiani Hope nurtures the dream / Ronald Bassman Inside / Don Tomasulo Paradise/Lost / Jennifer Lunden What would my mother say? / Annita Sawyer The dictator in my head / Kurt Warner In Minnesota, once: on anorexia, masculinity, and recovery / Owen Vince Jeannie / Miriam Mandel Levi An American boy / Candy Schulman I'm not a noun either / Tom Mallouk Indistinguishable chairs / Cassie Eaton Salvaging parts / Olga-Maria Cruz Hitbodedut / Catherine Klatzker Live a little / Ellen Holtzman Illusions of wellness / Katherine Sheppard Carrane Stalker / George Drinka No hope? Don't believe it / Sharron Hoy Came down a person / Ella Wilson