About Edward Podvoll
Edward Mitchell Podvoll was a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and co-founder and first medical director of the Windhorse Project, an alternative Buddhist-based approach to the treatment of psychosis and other extreme mental states. Dr. Podvoll was the director of the Contemplative Psychotherapy Graduate Program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, a department he directed for twelve years.
Podvoll’s most comprehensive work was originally published as The Seduction of Madness (HarperCollins, 1990); it was republished under the new title, Recovering Sanity: A Compassionate Approach to Understanding and Treating Psychosis (Shambhala Publications, 2003).
The Launch of a Public Archive of Edward M. Podvoll’s Work
The Windhorse Legacy Project holds the copyright to Ed’s seminal book, Recovering Sanity, as well as over 600 audio tapes of his lectures and clinical consultations, an extensive collection of his manuscripts, lecture and author notes, clinical logs, and correspondence. Click here to go to a list of all available works by Dr. Podvoll, or explore the links below to some of his materials and correspondence.
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