Pat Capponi is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Upstairs in the Crazy House: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor, as well as Dispatches from the Poverty Line, The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor and Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops. Capponi has served on numerous agency and hospital boards, developed a leadership facilitation program specific to the psychiatric survivor community and is a founding member of the Gerstein Centre in Toronto. She has been awarded the Order of Ontario and the C. M. Hincks Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association.
