Publications

University of the Rockies Press has recently published the book, Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy. Chuck Knapp’s chapter, “Windhorse Therapy: Creating Environments that Arouse the Energy of Health and Sanity” (download pdf) provides an in-depth explanation of the Windhorse treatment approach. In the chapter “Psychotherapy as an Expression of the Spiritual Journey Based on the Experience of Shunyata,” Ed Podvoll, with Jeff Fortuna, shares his path related to “The encounter of Buddhist meditation practice with Western psychological treatment.”

From the Book Cover – Brilliant Sanity

When Chöygam Trungpa started to train psychotherapists in Buddhist meditation more than thirty years ago, he envisioned a new therapy that would be informed by wisdom, compassion, and scholarship. This collection captures this vision. It brings forth the heart of Buddhism as applied to the contemporary practice of psychology.

—The Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, author of Turning the Mind into an Ally and Ruling Your World.

Fortuna, Jeffrey. "The Windhorse Project: Recovering from Psychosis at Home," Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy, 1994, vol. IX. [included on this site] (Adapted from Fortuna, Jeffrey. "The Windhorse Program for Recovery," in Warner, Richard, (ed.), "Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Treatment," Clinical Practice, 1995, No. 32. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press (available from the publisher: 1-800-368-5777).

Fortuna, Jeffrey. "Therapeutic Households," Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy, 1987, vol. IV. (Republished in Barker, Phil and Stevenson, Chris (eds.). The Construction of Power and Authority in Psychiatry, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000.)

Neugeboren, Jay. Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1999. [extended reference to Windhorse approach]
Packard, Constance. "Windhorse Guide for Families" (available at www.WindhorseAssociates.org).

Podvoll, Edward, MD. "Protecting Recovery from Psychosis in Home Environments," Naropa Institute Journal of Psychology, 1985, vol. III.

Podvoll, Edward, MD. Recovering Sanity (Shambhala Publications, 2003); previously published as The Seduction of Madness by HarperCollins, New York, 1990.

Stark, David. "Sanity Recovered" in Newton, Nancy and Sprengle, Kadi (eds.). Psychosocial Interventions in the Home: Housecalls, Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, 2000. [first-person account of Windhorse treatment experience]

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