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
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
No hope? Don't believe it / Sharron Hoy
Came down a person / Ella Wilson.
