Sunday, July 12, 2026

WRITING PORTFOLIO

2026 (in progress): Between Lived Experience and Professional Role: Engaging Personal Vulnerability in Participatory Research Processes (publication expected 2027) Author group (six contributors, including Ingrid e Johnson)
Contribution to an edited volume on vulnerability in qualitative research. The chapter draws on a participatory research workshop on experiences of violence and explores how personal vulnerability can be reflected upon and used as a resource within the research process.

2026 (in progress): Building RECASAS – A New Approach for the Future
A book written as part of the process of building RECASAS, primarily for potential future co-owners of RECASAS (Gesellschafterinnen) and others seriously interested in helping to develop the organization.
Read more about the two book projects at RECASAS →

2026 (in progress): The Business of Respect
A book for a wider audience exploring what might change if respect were treated not simply as a matter of politeness or kindness, but as something that shapes the structures we create, the institutions we work in, and the ways we help, teach, lead, research, and live with one another. Planned for submission to publishers.
Read more about the two book projects at RECASAS →

Since 2016 (in progress): A memoir: Possible titles include When She Dances, When Ingrid Dances, or Ballad of the Eleven Nests

A memoir beginning with an involuntary hospitalization in New York City and unfolding as a reflection on how I arrived in this obscure situation — tracing experiences of loss, violence, and displacement between Berlin and New York.

Since 2021: writer for the charitable organization RECASAS webite

2025 NEWS MIT HERZ. Zeitschrift von Betroffenen für Alle VOL. 02 10/25 – Poem: Letter to New York City #1

2022 LautBriefRundSprecher – Heft 7 – page 10 – THE MOTH London

2022 LautBriefRundSprecher – Heft 6 – page 8 – Selbsthilfe von Morgen: Neue Schutzräume braucht das Land! Bericht über den Vortrag von Ingrid e johnson auf der Jahrestagung des BPE e.V. 2021 in Berlin, Moderation Sandy Drögehorn

2019    Berlin Manifesto for a Humane Psychiatry (on the translation team)

2014     Why I love living in Yorkville – Part 2 Halstead Property Blog

2014     Welcome to Yorkville – Part 1 Halstead Property Blog

With my project RECASAS, I aim to create spaces—outside of the medical model—where people can share and explore their stories, including the difficult ones, through art, music, theatre, storytelling, literature, writing, and cooking.
These are spaces where emotional expression is welcome and not pathologized, while leaving room for many voices. Within them, we also reflect on how social norms, power structures, and language shape emotional distress, and how we can unlearn limiting narratives and reclaim our own voices and stories, collectively and creatively.

I am currently looking for people—based anywhere in the world—who can imagine taking on shared responsibility as Gesellschafterinnen (shareholders) of RECASAS. If this resonates with you, or if you know someone who might be a good fit, I would be glad to hear from you.

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