A Revolution of the Mind is a seething, honest, revelatory account of a life caught inside mental illness, set in a society where mental illness faces multiple layers of neglect—in family life, in social life, and in our systems of political economy and punishment. Set in modern-day Chicago, A Revolution of the Mind is both an unprecedented contribution to the literary canon on serious mental illness and an exigent, timely clarion call for social action about the welfare and treatment of people with mental illness in the United States.