About this item
Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces offer personal views from both providers and clients, often one and the same, about their experiences. In the anthology, readers will access the inner thoughts of an array of individuals, including: a therapist with dual status who also happens to be transgender and practicing in the Midwest; a lesbian writer and psychotherapist recounting her mother's experience with forced institutionalization, shock therapy, and "conversion therapy" in the 1950s; a queer illustrator presenting unique glyph illustrations that represent a panoply of identity-related questions and answers; an award-winning gay male writer discussing his struggle with depression publicly for the first time; and a trans activist of color writing about surviving madness in the inner city and how his community of mental health and social justice youth activists help each other thrive.
About the Author
Stephanie Schroeder is co-editor of HEADCASE: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness (Oxford University Press: 2019) . A New York City-based writer and mental health activist, her essays have been anthologized in That's Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation; Here Come the Brides: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage; and Easy to Love but Hard to Live With: Real People, Invisible Disabilities, True Stories, and many others. Schroeder's journalism can be found in The Guardian, Lambda Literary Review, Brooklyn Magazine, and other outlets. The memoir Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide (Creative Evolution: 2012) was her first book.
