Goodreads asked Clyde Dee:

What are you currently working on?

Clyde Dee I am working on a book on a theoretical approach towards working with people in "psychosis" which encourages them to tell their story and be more mindful and communicative about their experiences. The work is inspired by the groups I run for the past eight years called Special Messages. I have developed what I argue is a universal process of things that message receivers can relate to that can be used to start up group conversations. In addition I present a system of coping skills that reinforce things that can be done to help a message receiver succeed in things they are motivated to succeed in. Central to this work is the concept that we who have experienced "psychosis" need to be viewed more like an oppressed culture, that we need to be taught to work with each other and that the key to doing this is to offer a space where we can be encouraged to express silenced experiences and realize that we are not as alone as we think we are when we are in crisis. I have just finished initiating an eighteen month grant program that experimented using these ideas to train peer counselors and we started up groups in many agencies across our city to promote more of a cultural view of "psychosis" across diagnostic categories. It was successful and I now am going back to drafts of my book and integrating things I have learned and changes I have made to the workbook curriculum.

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