ABSTRACT
The Brooklyn Project could be carried out worldwide at many collaborating institutions, at one particular academic institution, or at a governmental institute parallel to the National Institute of Mental Health. Its physical location and auspices would matter considerably less than the quality, heart, and courage of the researchers involved. The primary activity of the Brooklyn Project would be to step right into the forefront of the battle being waged against constructs. That is, the Brooklyn Project is a mental health project. It is looking at everything human not so as to create some sort of new encyclopedia of humanness but so as to come up with recommendations about what needs to change in mental health practices and what better mental health practices might look like.
