Pat Capponi

Pat Capponi (born 1949) is a Canadian author and an advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues in Canada. She lives in Toronto. Her works include several nonfiction titles and a mystery novel series.

She has also served as a board member at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto and as a member of the Advocacy Commission in Ontario.

She is openly lesbian.[1]

She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.[2]

From Surviving To Advising

Capponi is the co-facilitator of the "From Surviving To Advising" initiative undertaken by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The effort brings together consumer-survivors with psychiatry residents to allow those with lived experience to work with residents to understand new perspectives of recovery.

Awards

Bibliography

  • Upstairs in the Crazy House Toronto : Viking, 1992. ISBN 0-670-83898-5
  • Dispatches from the Poverty Line Toronto : Penguin, 1997. 194 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-026233-4
  • The War at Home Toronto: Viking, 1999. ISBN 0-670-88244-5
  • Beyond the Crazy House: changing the future of madness Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2003. xvii, 238 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-100510-6
  • Last Stop Sunnyside (2006) Toronto : HarperCollins, c2006. 237 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-00-639412-4 ISBN 978-0-00-639412-9
  • The Corpse Will Keep (2008) Toronto : HarperCollins, c2008. 300 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 978-1-55468-100-6
  • Bound by duty : walking the beat with Canada's cops
    • (Hardcover edition) Toronto : Viking, 2000. 212 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-670-88931-8
    • (Paperback edition)Toronto : Penguin, 2001, c2000. 212 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-14-028887-2

References

  1. ↑ Kathryn Church, Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science. p. 26.
  2. ↑ "Four Nova Scotians among Order of Canada honourees". The Chronicle-Herald, July 1, 2015.
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