Information on my next project...
'The Truth Teller'.

I am passionate about the issue of mental health, and it's manifestation of what it means, in society.

Read about the rollercoaster ride during and after my first book release here. BUT WHAT'S THE NEXT CREATION?

My first book,'Recovered, Not Cured, a journey through schizophrenia'.

But the biggest journey is yet to come!!!

I AM GOING TO BREAK THE SILENCE ON THE STATE OF MENTAL HEALTH, FACILITATE A NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT MENTAL WELL-NESS, AND THE HOLISTIC ROLE OF CREATIVITY, THE MORE SHAMANISTIC INTERPRETATION OF PSYCHOSIS, EXPOSE PSYCHIATRY, AND CONFRONT OUR 'NOTIONS' OF WHAT WEALTH and HEALTH REALLY ARE!!!

So how you going to do that!?

...and I'm going to do it by interviewing people, writing, recording reflections in music, doing imperical research of statistical information, expressing my thoughts in art, examining shamanism and psychiatry, and relating it to my experiences and history of working and advocating for mental health issues! Prepare yourself for a blatantly honest spectral expression in many forms, titled... 'The Truth Teller'... ...a written, recorded, drawn, posted and played multi-media extravaganza..! 'The Truth Teller' will be a first-hand cathartic yet considered snapshot of Richard Mclean and his perceptions in the context of his artistic expression and experience of the state of Mental Health in Australia and abroad, as per his experience during and after his last published book, 'Recovered, Not Cured...!'

 

So what was the last book 'Recovered, Not Cured...' about ?

'...the best recent book describing the symptoms of schizophrenia…. I recommend it strongly, both for individuals suffering from schizophrenia and for their families.’ E. Fuller Torrey, MD, Author of: 'Surviving Schizophrenia'.

'Recovered, Not Cured, a journey through schizophrenia', (Allen and Unwin), was my first novel- an autobiographical art-book that was released to high praise in Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Japan. It received a 'Highly Commended', in the non-fiction section from the Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2003, and SANE Australia's 'Book of the year', 2004, amongst many other accolades. '...a profoundly thought-provoking and very readable book.' - Reading Time

 

So what will this book,
'The Truth Teller',
be about ?

The plan for 'The Truth Teller', is to report on experience, creativity and exchange exactly the way a mental illness should be treated - holistically and addressing a spectrum of needs. Art, interviews, writing, sound bytes, music, reporting on relations and individuals in an entirely multimedia format can be anticipated in the final spectrum that is, and will be, 'The Truth Teller'. As a multimedia experiment, it will be release on-line at www.richiemclean.com, and in written book format. My first book, 'Recovered, Not Cured...' was written in the midst of working as a graphic designer - and was indeed be a purging of ideas and pure experience, told in an unflinchingly and matter-of-fact style to distance the dischordancy of my past and define, in physical written terms, an epoch I would not wish upon my worst enemy. Since that time, I have travelled Nationally and Internationally advocating for the Mentally ill, giving TV, Radio, and presentations for different media, organizations, and universities. My waking passion for bringing mental health issues has seen me on prime time TV, and even speaking in Australian Parliament. It seemed a natural progression to evolve my career into that of an advocate for those with Mental Health issues, and did so as a 'consumer consultant' in a mental health service here in Melbourne, Australia. I am, even now, more shocked and appalled at the treatment of the mentally ill in this country and abroad, and the resources allocated. The bane of my life involves the knowledge of extreme stigmas in terms of mental health, associated with gaining government funding to eclipse the need of our citizens, whom to this day are being locked up in jails, drugged to the eyeballs, deported, and killing themselves. Covered up-in shame. Personally, I am also a web designer and engage in many multimedia interviews with prominent and not-so-prominent people, create music, traditional and digital art, all of which will be features of my new project. My personal experience with mental illness has fostered a great deal of recordable and transferable material, much of which will be released on www.richiemclean.com to coincide with this new project. It promises to be a worldwide multimedia release of epic proportions, followed up with public speaking, advocacy, and performances. I anticipate this book to be a highly controversial and blatantly truthful document, facilitating the beginnings of more community and media awareness, that there is something dreadfully wrong, with our ideas on what mental health means to us, and its treatment of such by society, peers, and authorities. Personal philosophy and the creative process will be existentialistically celebrated in conjunction with pure fact and observation. This will be a book like no other: from a world-celebrated author on his experience with schizophrenia...that as a reflection on modern psychiatry, and part of the books journey, it is also revealed that I, apparently, may not have 'schizophrenia' at all. I think it will be a must-read for those with any amount of empathy, and certainly for the one in five, that at sometime in their lives, suffer the burden of mental illness. This book promises to be an extremely personal journey in sound, music, interviews with well known and not-so-well-known people, words, songs, and first hand experience of being employed as a mental health worker, and determined to change what he has seen and experienced. And, of course, an affirmation of victorious nature, who endures mental illness. Finally, a display of emapathy unheard of, from a real, and approachable person, who aims to make a world he would have rathered gone mad in. Richard McLean.

...so please...

Help me be a
loud and strong voice
for those whos voice
may be but a whisper...

...please assist by making your credited contribution, pledge, or donation here, through www.justgiving.com. (Your donation also financially assists my nominated charity, SANE, through www.justgiving.com)

And please feel free to share this page and website with your friends interested in mental health advocacy, human rights, and the creative process...

With sincere thanks to those that have considered or decided to contribute... And best wishes of wealth not only monetarily, but in a spectrum of many forms, as I have been blessed with, Sincerely, (the author of a very exciting up-coming book!...) Richie... (...and Steinberg). Dont forget to Download your FREE audiobook!

Here are some other ways to assist my mandate: > If you would like to download a high-resolution image to print at home or office, for $2-$9.99, this also helps my project! > Please see the 'Recovered, Not Cured' Image Download Page! > You can also download music from here - original antipodean acoustic rock and other stuff! Only $1 a track! > Or make a contribution in exchange for the FREE AUDIO BOOK, of 'Recovered, Not Cured', this helps too!