From the Clinic and the Classroom — No Magic Wand

Two lies with teeth. Two books that refuse them.

Lie 01“Psychosis can be switched on for the meeting.”

Lie 02“A jury exists to approve what the majority already believes.”

Front cover of You Cannot Schedule a Break by Franklin Shoemaker and Tonya Sharrett-Shoemaker
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Book № 01 — Psychosis & Awareness

You Cannot
Schedule a Break

Psychosis, Awareness, and the Myth of On-Demand Insanity

This book takes on one specific lie, and that lie does real damage in clinics, courtrooms, and classrooms. The lie says psychosis is a performance a person can call up on demand. It says awareness is all on or all off. It says someone who was coherent on Thursday can't have been lost on Friday unless they planned it.

V1 × B1 · The highest-leverage cell

Biological and neurodevelopmental limits, read with diagnostic rigor. Psychosis has a body. Insight can be partial. Trauma can look loud and still not be a primary psychotic disorder.

The photogenic false cell

“They’re faking it for the meeting.”

The depleting cell

An adult trying to argue someone back into reality while residual charge is still in the room.

Tue10:14a.m. · Classroom

Stop treating a reality-testing failure as a loophole or a character lesson. Secure the room. Reduce the load. Get the right adult.

Home9:00p.m. · Kitchen table

Don't debate a delusion as if winning the argument will schedule insight. Protect the household. Seek the right level of care. Return to the relationship when a window opens. Not as a wand. As a sequence.

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Thursday’s clarity proves nothing about Friday.

And one dissent is no malfunction.

Book № 02 — The Jury & the Right to Dissent

One
Against
Eleven

The Lindsay Clancy Holdout, Jury Coercion, and the American Right to Dissent

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9 + 3nine women, three men
Hungmistrial declared

After about thirty-eight hours of deliberation over seven days, Judge William F. Sullivan declared a mistrial in Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy. The jury could not agree on one question: had the Commonwealth proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Clancy was criminally responsible when she strangled her children in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023?

In memory

Cora, five  ·  Dawson, three  ·  Callan, eight months

Truth one

Three children are dead. She is the person who took their lives.

Truth two

The American criminal jury isn't a committee that exists to ratify the majority's grief. If eleven are convinced and one is not, the system hangs.

These two truths have to be held together. The book keeps both in view.

Front cover of One Against Eleven by Franklin E. Shoemaker and Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker
Dual-Mode Edition · Paperback
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One voice from the Clinic.
One from the Classroom.

The Clinic

Dr. Franklin Edward Shoemaker

PhD · LMHC-QS · TF-CBT

A licensed mental health counselor and qualified supervisor trained in trauma-focused CBT. Known as Dr. RAD, The Attachment Code Breaker.

The Classroom

Tonya A. Sharrett-Shoemaker

MA · Certified Professional Educator

2024 Teacher of the Year at Medulla Elementary. She brings the Tuesday-morning view: what happens in a real room, with real children, before the specialist arrives.

Snapped → Shifted → Solid.   Crack it. Shift it. Own it.

Part of a 13-book series · Available on Amazon now

No wand.
Just the work.