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

• Order of Ontario
• C. M. Hincks Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association

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.

External links

• Author website
• HarperCollins Canada
• Video trailer for Last Stop Sunnyside