Grassroots organizations for bipolar disorder

Melancolicus: National Library of Medicine

• Depression and bipolar support alliance
• Out of the Darkness Overnight: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  
• Bipolar Central
• Manic’s Dance
• Bipolar World
• Icarus Project
• Critical Psychiatry Network
• Mindfreedom
• MacMan’s Depression and Bipolar Web

Scholars working on aspects of bipolar disorder and related conditions

• Jennifer Ahern, epidemiologist, UC Berkeley
• Janis Jenkins, anthropologist, UC San Diego: experience and schizophrenia
• Jonathan Metzl, psychiatrist and historian, University of Michigan: History of medicine; history of psychiatry; gender and health
• Joel Braslow, psychiatrist and historian, UCLA: social, cultural, and scientific consitution of therapeutic practices in medicine and psychiatry
• Stefan Ecks, anthropologist, University of Edinburgh: India and pharmaceuticals, body, self and medicine
• Tanya Luhrman, anthropologist, Stanford: the social construction of psychological experience
• Louis Sass, psychologist, comparative literature, Rutgers University: the intersection of clinical psychology with philosophy, the arts, and literary studies
• Elizabeth Lunbeck, historian, Vanderbilt University: psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the United States and Europe

Scholarly networks, collaborative projects, and research centers

• The Psyences Project: network of people interested in psychiatry and culture, at NYU
• BIOS: international centre for research and policy on social aspects of the life sciences and biomedicine, at the London School of Economics