{"id":368,"date":"2013-09-14T23:18:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2021-02-26T04:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:53:43","slug":"the-icarus-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/the-icarus-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Icarus Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shadow-8-blue-Janice-Sorensen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shadow-8-blue-Janice-Sorensen-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow 8 (blue) Janice Sorensen\" class=\"wp-image-370\" title=\"Janice Sorensen Shadow 8 (blue)\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"The Icarus Project \" href=\"http:\/\/www.theicarusproject.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Icarus Project<\/a> is a group of artists, writers and activists who have all been diagnosed as mentally ill for lack of a better, mutually understood, term.&nbsp; Their goal is to move away from the idea of mental and emotional turmoil being an \"illness\" and to instead see it in more existential and humanistic terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>They would pose the question, \"How sane is it to be well adjusted in a world that is clearly out of balance?\"&nbsp; I would agree and have a lot of respect for the perspective they are promoting and the work they do.&nbsp; I highly recommend the film <a title=\"Crooked Beauty Film\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbeauty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Crooked Beauty,\"<\/a> that features Icarus activist, author, and writer, Jaks McNamara who has been diagnosed as bipolar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The art on this page was done by Icarus artist <a title=\"Janice Sorensen Shadow 8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theicarusproject.net\/fountain-gallery-nyc-2006-art-show\/shadow-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janice Sorensen.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Icarus Project is a group of artists, writers and activists who have all been diagnosed as mentally ill for lack of a better, mutually understood, term.&nbsp; 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