Muckraking

by Esther Israel The snippets below were written by yours truly in March 2025 after I showed the quotes from Madness in the Mental Health Profession to a psychiatrist colleague. He recommended a book by a British psychiatrist who documented his experiences treating patients in a psychiatric hospital. Dr. Dalrymple's interactions with patients over two decades ago are very similar to my experiences across the pond. As I was reading his incisive and funny book, I made note

by Esther Israel     The snippets below were written by me in January 2025. I was inspired by interviews of, debates with and writings by...

by Esther Israel April 16, 2023 The father with his son in the back seat turns his Toyota Tacoma east into my northbound body. I am hit...

by Esther Israel A client came unbidden to give me dirt on a peer. They told me with a grin, “The ears have walls. Yeah. I know. You told...

By Esther Israel February 6, 2022 I read an Op-Ed article in the Salt Lake Tribune by Judith Pinborough-Zimmerman and Ronald Mortensen...

Below is a sampling of poems I've written between 2008-2019. In 2008, I took a summer intensive course on Feminist Multicultural Therapy...

Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 After experiencing coordinated and intentional discrimination on the job at The Venus Fly Trap...

Sestina For a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation: Peace House Inc., Plaintiff v. Esther Israel, Defendant.

Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 In 2015, I filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the University of Utah and five local...

Esther Israel writes (July 2021) about a job held in the time frame of summer 2014 to fall 2015 In the winter of 2012, I obtained an...

It is an unfortunate reality that many so called nonprofit mental health agencies place their bottom lines above competent care.

Sometimes people elect to go to talk therapy and make disclosures of fresh wounds, gripes and misgivings in the hopes of closure by the end

I originally titled the article, "I Wrote This For My Own Good" and submitted it for publication with the Trauma Informed Care Network...

In the summer of 2011, while I was living in Brooklyn, New York, the Assistant Clinical Director at Utah State Hospital (USH) inquired about

Esther Israel Compiled in July 2021 I was a newsletter contributor and active member, and later a newsletter editor for the Utah...

Written by Esther Israel in August 2021 Scholarly works were copyrighted © in 2006 and 2008 by Esther Israel when I submitted them for...