MEMOIRS: Blackbird Singing and START.
Schizophrenia and life under a compulsory community treatment order. Love. The natural world in Argyll and Highland. Reflections on: grieving, estrangement from children, family, forgiveness, acceptance.
Blackbird Singing:
‘There is so much more to me than the story of detention and schizophrenia and isolation and discrimination, or even the story of activism or of recovery or turmoil…’
Graham Morgan Nails it again…. His best book yet – Cynthia Rogerson
START
Graham Morgan’s START is a remarkable and engrossing read. It buttonholed me and held my attention with its fervour, modesty, wit, self-questioning, its generosity amid corrosive fear, loss and pain. As a story through depression and psychosis and family dramas, I found it absorbing and funny, terrifying and celebratory. It is lyrical about love and being in the world, while being truly frightening. It’s fresh and direct, unguarded and brave. It made me wince and chuckle. Andrew Greig
Contributor to: Mental Health Today, Lancet Psychiatry, International Journal of Mental Health and the Law, Journal of Medical Ethics and various Magazines, anthologies, blogs and podcasts.
Featured in The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Post, The Daily Record, BBC Radio Scotland Morning show and various news programs.
Trustee of Moniack Mhor Writers Centre. Member of Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Data Base,
MBE for services to mental health. 2019 Andy Lawless Award for changing attitudes to mental health. 2012 Royal College of Psychiatrists service user contributor of the year
Available to give speeches and talks having spoken at the United Nations Committee against Torture (Geneva), 2018 Kings College Transnational Congress on Human Rights (London). 2022 Adults and Capacity Law Congress (Edinburgh) 2023 3rd UK and Ireland mental health and capacity law conference (Nottingham) and many other National, Regional and other events.
Have appeared as: guest author, workshop facilitator, at mental health awareness events and Author Events.
Currently working on a fictional work about Male Victims of Domestic Violence.