"Should be required reading for anyone who wants to help a person with neuropsychiatric brain disease (NBD). Truly a beacon of hope, as promised, in what can seem like a bleak landscape. A guiding light for those diagnosed with NBD, the practitioners who guide their recovery, and the families and friends who love them. Thank you for actionable ideas, heartfelt stories, and caring so much about people like my son. Finally we can reimagine life-again."

-Randye Kaye, Author, Ben Behind His Voices; Podcast Host, Schizophrenia: 3 Moms in the Trenches

"Severe mental illness ranks with cancer as one of the two most terrifying and destructive scourges known to mankind-corrosive and incurable. From the founding of the barbaric Bedlam Asylum in London eight centuries ago to the criminally rudderless care and treatment of "crazy people" today, fear, ignorance, bumbling and neglect have hobbled progress in combatting the affliction. Breakthroughs in microcomputer technology in the 1980s allowed scientists to see severe mental illness for what it is: not a metaphor for unhappiness, but a palpable, organic failure in brain cells. Amidst the growing literature springing from this discovery, Lives Reimagined: Changing the Course of Psychotic Illness is the latest and among the best. [The authors] have produced a rich and far-ranging compendium of fact, interpretation, advice, and medical insights that shed powerful light on what is now called "neuropsychiatric brain disease" and an "unfolding road map" for the general reader seeking enlightenment. This book, seminal in its aims and comprehensive in its flow of information and ideas, is destined to become a standard."

-Ron Powers, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist; Author, No-one Cares About Crazy People

".... The culmination of our journey through the rough seas of neuropsychiatric brain disease (NBD) has brought us to the welcoming calm harbor of Rocco Marotta MD, PhD. What we have all learned together is that there is a correct approach to NBD. Simply put, build embracing relationships with your patients and families, use the most effective treatments as early as possible (clozapine based), and be eternally patient. Most importantly dare to hope. The Lodge experience and the Team Daniel experience both show meaningful recovery is not only possible, but it is probable if appropriate resources are made available. Lisa's and Katharine's loving treatise is a demonstration of how far kindness and competence can take you on this journey. Read, learn and be enlightened."

-Rob Laitman, MD and Ann Mandel Laitman, MD, Co-Authors, Meaningful Recovery from Schizophrenia and Serious Mental Illness with Clozapine

"This compelling account of Dr. Rocco Marotta's clinical program for psychosis at Silver Hill Hospital serves as both a sobering reminder of the ongoing crisis-where high-THC cannabis is harming the developing brains of vulnerable young people-and a hopeful testament to the power of evidence-based, compassionate care. By integrating the strengths of therapeutic community, psychotherapy, and medication, this program offers a model for healing. Professionals, parents, and policymakers alike should read this book to grasp the urgent challenges before us and the promising path forward."

-Patrick Kennedy, Co-Founder, The Kennedy Forum