About me
Tim Dreby is a psychotherapist in private practice and the award-winning author of a memoir about surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis. He has been employed in Oakland, CA over the last twenty-four years at Alameda Health System in the Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Highland Hospital. In 2008, he wrote a curriculum and started running professional groups that explored stories associated with “psychosis.” Since that time he has amassed a great deal of training material. In 2014-2015 he authored an Innovations Grant that trained peer facilitators to use their story in outreaching to others. In 2015 he released Fighting for Freedom in America: Memoir of a “Schizophrenia” and Mainstream Cultural Delusions which won multiple awards in multiple contests. He runs a blog on his website. He is currently running a twenty hour training for professionals, family members and survivors to help them explore and heal madness.
