Podcasts by Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.
This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
On the podcast we have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world.
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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History from 2023-12-13T09:53
On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to get in touc...
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The Making of a 'Madness' That Hides Our Monsters - An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley from 2023-11-15T09:02
Audrey Clare Farley is a writer, editor, and scholar of 20th-century American culture with a special interest in science and religion. She earned a PhD in E...
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A Playground for Predators-Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship from 2023-11-08T08:00
Like to know more about MIA, its mission or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our podcast, MIA founder Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to Listen
May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem from 2023-10-25T07:00
Like to know more about MIA, its mission or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our podcast, MIA founder Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to askmia@madiname...
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Branding Diseases: Ray Moynihan on How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions from 2023-10-18T07:41
Ray Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. He is also an academic at Bond University and a documentary filmmaker. Moynihan's research a...
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How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis from 2023-10-11T08:26
Bradley Lewis works at the intersections of medicine, psychiatry, philosophy, the psychological humanities, mad studies, and disability studies, balancing roles as both a humanities professor an...
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Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy from 2023-09-27T07:00
On the Mad in America podcast today, we hear about the potential of lucid dreaming therapy to aid those struggling with post-traumatic stress. Our guest is Listen
Family Panel Discussion – Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Person in Crisis from 2023-09-20T07:00
This week we are sharing the audio from a recently held online discussion on supporting a child, teen or young adult in crisis. The host is Mad in America’s Family Editor, Amy Biancolli, and wit...
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Sacred Conversations: A Talk with Susan Swim and a Father Whose Daughter Found Healing from 2023-09-13T07:00
We have two guests today. One is Susan Swim, executive director of the Now I See A Person Institute, which she created in 2007 to provide therapy and counseling to kids, teens, adults, families ...
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The Radical Politics of Madness-Micha Frazer-Carroll from 2023-08-30T09:35
Micha Frazer-Carroll is a writer, editor, and advocate whose work ventures into the radical politics of madness and mental health. Our exploration will excavate the connections between mental he...
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Can Psychosocial Disability Decolonize Mental Health? A Conversation with Luis Arroyo and Justin Karter from 2023-08-16T07:00
Today on the Mad in America podcast we share a conversation between Luis Gerardo Arroyo Lynn and Justin Karter.
Luis conducted this conversation in his role as an editor of Listen
Sarah Fay - Cured: A Memoir from 2023-08-02T08:34
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by Sarah Fay. Sarah is an author, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, a freelance writer at The New York Times and el...
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Sharon Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte - Mental Health Podcasts: A Force for Good in a Contested Field from 2023-07-19T07:00
According to Edison Research, there are more podcast listeners tha...
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James Greenblatt - 'We Have a Neck' - The Links Between Body and Brain from 2023-07-12T07:00
James Greenblatt is an innovator and longtime authority in the fields of integrative medicine and functional psychiatry, focusing on nutrition and other natural mo...
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Nandita Chaudhary - Challenging Western-Centric Child Psychology from 2023-07-05T07:00
Nandita Chaudhary is a foremost expert on child psychology. She served as a professor at Lady Irwin College in India for over 35 years and teaches in Brazil.
Dr. Chaudhary has an impressi...
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Mia Berrin - Embodying Emotional Taboos: Musicians and Mental Health from 2023-06-14T08:04
Mia Berrin is a songwriter, producer, and recording artist based out of Brooklyn, whose project, Pom Pom Squad, has garnered attention over the last few years for its grunge-pop sound and intros...
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David Edward Walker - Oppressive Mental Health Practices - For Native People, the Past is Present from 2023-06-07T07:00
David Edward Walker is the author of Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America...
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Chris Bullard - The Sound Mind Festival from 2023-05-18T09:45
Chris Bullard is the executive-director of the Sound Mind Live Festival, scheduled for May 20 in Brooklyn, New York....
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Chris van Tulleken - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food and Why Can't We Stop? from 2023-05-17T07:00
This week on the Mad in America podcast we are joined by Dr. Chris van Tulleken. Chris is an Infectious Diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. He trained at Oxford and ...
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David Carmichael - The Antidepressant Safety Tour from 2023-05-10T07:00
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we hear from drug safety advocate David Carmichael. David has personal knowledge of the effects of psychiatric drugs, having experienced a family tragedy...
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Tanya Frank - Zig Zag Boy: My Family's Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare from 2023-04-05T07:00
On the Mad in America podcast this week, we chat with author and educator Tanya Frank.
Tanya has worked as a colle...
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Pata Suyemoto - Centering Racial Justice and Community in Mental Health Advocacy and Suicide Prevention from 2023-03-29T07:00
Pata Suyemoto is a feminist scholar, educator, curriculum developer, activist, and artist. Her work focuses on promoting racial equity in mental health and suicide prevention through teaching an...
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Camille Robcis - Uncovering Radical Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy in Postwar France from 2023-03-22T09:20
Camille Robcis is a Professor of History and French at Columbia University. She is the author of two books, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France, a...
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Erick Turner - Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: How Publication Bias Threatens Research Integrity and Public Health from 2023-03-08T09:27
Erick Turner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He is also a senior scholar with ...
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Adam Urato - Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants and Pregnancy from 2023-02-22T09:33
On our podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Adam Urato.
Adam graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1997 and has been practicing medicine for over 25 years, specializing in obstetrics an...
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Owen Whooley - Psychiatry's Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention from 2023-02-08T08:53
Owen Whooley is an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. His book On the Heels of Ignorance Listen
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus from 2023-01-18T08:54
The Mad in America podcast is sponsored this week by Drs Rani and Suraj Holistic Psychiatry and Mental Health Coaching. Are you Ready to make a lasting change in your l...
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A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s "Medication-Free” Hospital Survive? from 2023-01-11T08:00
In December 2019, we wrote about the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center, which is a private psych...
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Ten Years of Rocking the Boat - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work from 2022-12-21T09:45
Today we are continuing with our look behind the scenes of Mad in America for our 200th podcast. Mad in America got started in January 2012 and so to celebrate a decade of critical comment and a...
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Changing Narratives - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work from 2022-12-14T08:00
This week is a special one for us at Mad in America, as it’s the 200th episode of our podcast. Our first interview wa...
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Art and Transformation - Creating Justice in Mental Health Care from 2022-11-23T08:00
Madness: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health is an upcoming conference created by the Disruption Network Lab. The Lab examines the intersection of politic...
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David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy from 2022-11-16T09:29
On the Mad in America podcast this wweek we are joined by renowned psychopharmacologist Dr David Healy.
David is a psychiatrist, scientist and author. Before becoming a...
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Morgan Shields - Breaking Academia's Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry from 2022-11-09T09:05:24
Morgan Shields is one of the few health policy researchers who focuses on quality of care and issues of coercion within inpatient psychiatry. Her research exposes how current healthcare settings...
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Anders Sørensen - Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice from 2022-11-05T08:00
This week we are sharing a special interview that’s being done as part of World Tapering Day. World Tapering Day is being held on the 4th, 5th and 6th of Novembe...
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Justin Karter - Exploring the Fault Lines in Mental Health Discourse from 2022-10-19T08:17
Justin Karter is a staff psychologist at Boston College University Counseling Services. He is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Couns...
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Jim Flannery - Sorry It's Not Funny – Comedy, Hip-Hop and Activism from 2022-10-12T07:48
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by activist and artist Jim Flannery.
Born and raised in suburban Weathersfield, Connecticut, Jim was committed at four mental hospit...
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Diana Rose - Is Service-User Research Possible in Mental Health? from 2022-09-14T08:23:22
Dr. Diana Rose wears many hats—academic, researcher, service user, and activist. She is a leading figure in user-led research and currently an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Australian ...
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Jon Jureidini – Evidence-Based Medicine in a Post-Truth World from 2022-09-07T07:00:16
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jon Jureidini.
Jon is a child psychiatrist who also trained in philosophy, critical appraisal and psychotherapy. He has a con...
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Liam MacGabhann, Martha Griffin, Harry Gijbels and Elaine Browne - The Launch of Mad in Ireland from 2022-08-22T06:00:37
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are really pleased to be announcing the launch of a new global affiliated site: Mad in Ireland.
Mad in Ireland launches on August the 22nd...
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Beverley Thomson – Antidepressed - Antidepressant Harm and Dependence from 2022-08-17T07:56:18
Our guest today is Beverley Thomson. Beverley is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and ADHD drugs. She is interes...
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John Read and Jeffrey Masson - Biological Psychiatry and the Mass Murder of “Schizophrenics” from 2022-08-10T07:57:08
On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from the co-authors of a Listen
Kaori Wada - How Grief Became a Disorder and What This Means About Us from 2022-08-03T08:45:18
In March 2022, a new grief-related disorder was officially adopted into mainstream mental health diagnosis nomenclature. Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is a recent addition to the Diagnostic and...
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Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness from 2022-07-13T08:28:27
Our guest today is sociologist and author, Doctor Andrew Scull. Andrew is a professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of the Roy Porter...
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Kristina Marusic - Pollution's Mental Toll from 2022-07-06T07:00:38
On our last podcast, Mad in the Family covered the effect of climate change and extreme weather events on children’s and mothers’ mental health. This one continues the conversation on environmen...
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Jessica Taylor - Pathologized Since Eve - Women, Trauma, and Sexy but Psycho from 2022-06-29T07:00:14
Our guest today is Jessica Taylor, author of Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against ...
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Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model? from 2022-06-15T07:00:08
On the podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Niall McLaren. Niall, known to many as Jock, is an Australian psychiatrist who worked for 25 years in the remote north of the country.Listen
Tara Thiagarajan - Mental Wellbeing Among Internet-enabled Populations of the World from 2022-06-08T07:00:13
Tara Thiagarajan is founder and chief scientist of Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs the Listen
Bruce Cohen - The Failings of “Mental Health”: How a Seemingly Benign Concept Might be Dangerous from 2022-05-25T07:00:27
Dr. Bruce Cohen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland. His career spans over thirty years where he has time and again used empir...
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Jennifer Barkin - New Tools to Support New Moms from 2022-05-18T07:00:32
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Alice and Kenneth Thompson - Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh from 2022-05-11T07:00:55
The Visible Hands Collaborative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is run by Alice Fox Thompson and Kenneth Thompson. Together, the father and daughter team is bringing a novel form of community healin...
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Trans Lifeline - Naming Trans-Specific Harm in Mental Health from 2022-04-27T08:53:58
Executive Director Jahmil Roberts and Advocacy Director Yana Calou from the Trans Lifeline work towards connecting trans people to the community support and resources they need to survive and th...
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Nicholas Haslam - Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences from 2022-04-13T07:00
Nicholas Haslam is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. He is a prolific writer with nine books and around 270 articles to his name and is well-renowned for his work on dehuman...
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Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay - The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us from 2022-04-06T07:00:31
In this interview, MIA speaks with Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay about the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual o...
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Sera Davidow - Trusting People as Experts of Themselves from 2022-03-30T08:39:30
Sera Davidow is a filmmaker, activist, advocate, author, and mother of two very busy kids. As a survivor of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as a child and relationship violence as an adult...
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Lynne Layton - The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture from 2022-03-09T09:08:49
Lynne Layton is a psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Holding a P...
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Dana Becker - The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering from 2022-02-16T10:48:01
Dana Becker is professor emeritus of social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College and has practiced as a psychotherapist for over three decades. Wit...
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Michael Hengartner – Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription from 2022-02-02T08:00:58
This week, we hear from Dr. Michael Hengartner. Michael is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. His areas of expertise include psychiatric e...
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Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention from 2022-01-25T09:00:57
This week on the Mad in America podcast we hear from Johann Hari. Johann is an internationally bestselling author whose books have appeared in 38 languages, and he was twice named National News...
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Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis from 2022-01-19T08:00
In the face of the COVID pandemic, social and academic pressures, and an uncertain future, young people are struggling. Each week we see another news report...
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Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society from 2022-01-12T10:42:37
Sebastienne Grant is a professor of critical psychology at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently serves as the program director for a Master’s program in Critical Psychology and H...
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For Life - Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs Premieres on Jan 15 from 2022-01-08T14:00
Dawn Sonntag and Kermit Cole have collaborated on creating a 30-minute opera, Listen
Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back from 2021-12-22T09:19:29
Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal where he co-directs ...
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Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia - Emotional CPR - Heart-Centered Peer Support from 2021-11-24T09:26:21
In this podcast we discuss an educational program called Emotional CPR (eCPR), a form of peer support anyone can use to assist youth (or adults) in emotional crisis.
Our guests are Oryx C...
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Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn - How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart from 2021-11-17T11:02:44
Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn is a professor at Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is currently part of several national and ...
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Renee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine from 2021-11-10T08:00
On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from Renee Schuls-Jacobson. Renee was a teacher for two decades and she is now an author, artist, advocate ...
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Giovanni Fava - A Different Psychiatry is Possible from 2021-11-03T08:00
In this podcast, we hear from the renowned clinician and researcher Dr. Giovanni Fava. Dr. Fava is a psychiatrist and professor of clinical psychology at th...
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Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future? from 2021-10-27T08:36:15
Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wide variety of human service settings, includ...
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Shira Collings - New Perspectives on Eating Disorders from 2021-10-16T09:35:26
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Helena Hansen - Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry from 2021-10-13T07:00
Helena Hanson is professor and chair of translational social science and health equity and associate director for the center for social medicine at UCLA. As a psychiatrist and anthropologist, sh...
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Matcheri Keshavan and Raquelle Mesholam-Gately - Why Some Experts and Patients Want to Rename Schizophrenia from 2021-09-29T08:55:41
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that carries a heavy social stigma. However, experts have also questioned the validity and utility of the label. In response, some experts and service-us...
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Jim van Os and Peter Groot - When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCTs Fall Short from 2021-08-27T08:51:16
This week we talk with Professor Jim van Os and Doctor Peter Groot about their Listen
Ursula Read - Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion from 2021-08-25T08:19:12
Ursula Read is a research fellow and associate at King's College London. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from University College London, where she studied...
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Michael Ungar - Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience from 2021-07-28T07:59:44
Michael Ungar is the founder and director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University in Canada. He is also a family therapist and pr...
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Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering from 2021-07-10T09:07:28
Patricia Rush, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician whose scientific focus is complex chronic illness. Her over 40-year career has focused on working with underserved populations and ...
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Marcela Ot'alora - MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility from 2021-07-09T09:28:41
Marcela Ot'alora works with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) as the principal investigator for government research into MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. In addition t...
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Michelle Funk - WHO and the Sea Change in Mental Health from 2021-06-12T07:00
Michelle Funk is the Unit Head of the Policy, Law, and Human Rights at the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use at the World Health Organization. S...
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Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry from 2021-06-09T08:52:56
Ilana Mountian is a researcher drawing on psychoanalytic, critical, decolonial, and feminist philosophies. She is the author of Cultural Ecstasies: Drugs, Gender, and the Social Imaginary Listen
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Post Withdrawal Experiences from 2021-05-28T12:06:21
This week on the MIA podcast we are providing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held in May 2021.
For our third discussion, we are examining protracted...
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Hannah Pickard - Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities from 2021-05-26T08:19:16
Hanna Pickard is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also appointed with the William H. Miller Department of Philosophy, the Berma...
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Katrina Michelle - Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing from 2021-05-12T09:47:54
Katrina Michelle is a psychologist and the founder and director of The Curious Spirit, a t...
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Hannah Zeavin - Questioning the Moral Panic Around Teletherapy from 2021-04-28T09:11:12
Hannah Zeavin is a leading scholar investigating how mediated communications and technology impact our intimate relations. Her most recent work tackles tele...
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Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health from 2021-04-17T07:00
This episode of “Mad in the Family” discusses the links between nutrition and mental health, and the science that’s showing that diet may help improve or even prevent mental health issues in chi...
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Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal from 2021-04-14T08:58:31
Anne Guy is a member of the council for evidence-based psychiatry (CEP) and works with the secretariat for the All-party Parliamentary ...
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Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life? from 2021-03-31T07:00
Peter Sterling, now retired from the University of Pennsylvania, is a well-known neuroscientist, having co-authored a popular text, Principles of Neural...
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Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology from 2021-03-17T09:38:55
Bethany Morris is an assistant professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches and does theoretical and qual...
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Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal from 2021-03-13T08:00
This week on the MIA podcast, we discuss a recent paper that considers the support provided by online support groups when people seek help for psychiatric drug withdrawal. The paper is entitled ...
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Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment from 2021-02-27T08:00
Actor, singer, writer, and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy is goddaughter of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and daughter of the Revere...
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Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives from 2021-02-24T09:50:28
Helen Spandler is a Professor of Mental Health Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She is the managing editor of Asylum, a n...
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Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research from 2021-02-13T10:31:57
This week on the Mad in America podcast we turn our attention to prescription-drug-induced akathisia and joining me to discuss this is Jill Nickens. Jill is the president and founder of the Listen
Janice Haaken - Trauma and Mental Health in Social Movements from 2021-02-10T08:00
Janice Haaken is a professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist, and a documentary filmmaker. In addition to her w...
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Howard Glasser - The Nurtured Heart Approach from 2021-02-06T08:00
This episode of “Mad in the Family” focuses on a non-drug method to bringing out the best in challenging children, particularly those diagnosed with “ADHD.” It is called the Nurtured Heart Appro...
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Lucas Richert - Psychiatry and the Counterculture from 2021-01-27T09:53:18
Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and historical director for the American Instit...
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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Setting the Scene from 2021-01-18T10:29:57
This week we are sharing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held on January 15th 2021.
This was our initial, scene-setting discussion and the panelists ...
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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Setting the Scene from 2021-01-18T10:29:57
This week we are sharing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held on January 15th 2021.
This was our initial, scene-setting discussion and the panelists ...
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Trailer - Online Town Hall - Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal from 2021-01-11T20:40:37
Mad in America, in partnership with the Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry and the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug withdrawal is arranging a series of free to attend online town ...
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Thomas Teo - Fascist Subjectivity and the Subhuman from 2021-01-06T09:52:55
Thomas Teo is a Professor of Psychology in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto, Can...
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Piers Gooding - Psychosocial Disability Rights and Digital Mental Health from 2020-12-23T08:00
Piers Gooding is a Mozilla Foundation fellow (2020) and researcher at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne Law School. His m...
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Jennifer White - Rethinking Suicide Prevention from 2020-11-25T08:00
Jennifer White is one of the founders of the Critical Suicidology Network, a growing international network of scholars interested in exploring alternatives ...
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Tanya Luhrmann - How Culture Influences Voice Hearing from 2020-11-13T09:56:51
Tanya Luhrmann is a Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford. Her work explores how cultural contexts shape the experience of mental distress, particularly voice-h...
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Adele Framer - Surviving Antidepressants from 2020-11-01T08:00
dele Framer, also known by her online handle Altostrata, is the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, a critical and ...
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Natalie Campo - Can We Move Toward Mindful Medicine? from 2020-10-14T07:00
Natalie Campo, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist practicing in Nashville, TN. She became interested in holistic treatment modalities in her first year of m...
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Kirk Schneider - Leading Psychology in Existential Times from 2020-09-23T07:00
Kirk Schneider is currently running for President of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a licensed psychologist and adjunct faculty at Saybrook University and Teachers College, ...
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Rhonda Speight - I Found My Lion's Roar - Combining Peer Support and Open Dialogue from 2020-09-19T09:42:57
Ronda "Ro" Speight is a mental health peer specialist and recovery advocate at the Mental Health Association of Westchester in Westchester County, New York. She is a person with lived experience...
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Stuart Shipko - SSRI Withdrawal: Shooting the Odds from 2020-09-12T07:00
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr. Stuart Shipko. Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pasadena, California and...
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Jodi Aman - Anxiety, I'm So Done with You from 2020-09-05T07:00
This episode of “Mad in the Family” focuses on how adolescents can better manage and even overcome anxiety—something the news media and our own eyes tell us so many young people these days are s...
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Nikolas Rose - Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become from 2020-08-19T09:34:32
Nikolas Rose is a professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London. His work explores how concepts in ...
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Jussi Valtonen - How to Know What We Don’t Know from 2020-07-29T08:58:44
Jussi Valtonen is both a novelist and a psychologist. As a novelist, his work has been compared to both George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's
Claudia Gold - Embrace the Messiness! from 2020-07-18T08:49:49
This episode of the “Mad in the Family” podcast discusses the role of human interaction in child development. Specifically, how conflict and miscommunication between parent and child is not only...
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Ian Tucker - Mental Health and Emotion in the Digital Age from 2020-07-15T08:45:05
Ian Tucker is a professor and director of impact and innovation in the school of psychology at the University of East London. His expertise is in digital media, emotion, and mental health, he ha...
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Jim Wright - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020 from 2020-07-11T08:02:23
This week on MIA Radio, we present the second part of our podcast to join in the events for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020...
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Jim Wright - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020 from 2020-07-11T08:02:23
This week on MIA Radio, we present the second part of our podcast to join in the events for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020...
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Angela Peacock - Medicating Normal from 2020-07-05T07:00
This week on MIA Radio we present a special episode of the podcast in advance of the events being held to mark World Benzodiazepine...
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Awais Aftab - Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry from 2020-07-03T09:57:29
MIA’s Justin Karter interviews psychiatrist Awais Aftab about how “conceptual competence” uses philosophy to transform psychiatry.
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John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the Evidence From Clinical Trials Justify its Continued Use? from 2020-06-13T09:23:37
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to electroconvulsive therapy (known as electroshock in the US). It’s fair to say that ...
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Scott Greenspan - Exercise for Youth Mental Health in the Lockdown from 2020-06-10T08:43:08
Scott Greenspan recently received his doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a mental health counselor, he works to...
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Dainius Pūras - Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care from 2020-05-27T14:30:11
Dainius Pūras is a medical doctor and human rights advocate. He is currently serving the final year of his term as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on ...
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Sunil Bhatia - When Psychology Speaks for You, Without You from 2020-05-15T08:15:47
Sunil Bhatia is a professor and chair of the Department of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is the author of two books and over 50 articles and ...
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Nicole Beurkens – What If This Pandemic Is the Best Thing to Happen to Children with Challenges? from 2020-05-09T08:29:28
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Nicole Beurkens, PhD, about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and “quarantine life” on childre...
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MIA Town Hall 1 - Are We Living in the Most Dialogical Time Ever? from 2020-04-29T18:22:20
This week on MIA Radio we share the audio from our first Town Hall panel discussion. Mad in America, Open Excellence and the HOPEnDialogue project have collaborated to create an ongoing series o...
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Sam Himelstein - The Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing on Adolescents from 2020-04-25T08:06:58
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Sam Himelstein, PhD, about the impact of the Coronavirus crisis and “social distancing” polici...
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Ian Puppe - Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing from 2020-04-18T09:27:54
Ian Puppe is an instructor and research associate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Puppe’s work focuses on the anthropology of First Nations peoples, glob...
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Mab Segrest - Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens from 2020-04-15T08:25:06
Mab Segrest is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Listen
Paula Caplan - Listen to a Veteran from 2020-03-21T09:21:42
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Paula J. Capl...
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MIA Report - Medication-Free Treatment in Norway - A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage from 2020-03-14T11:01:02
Welcome to MIA Reports, showcasing our independent and original journalism devoted to rethinking psychiatry. We take selected MIA Reports and provide them as audio articles. Click Listen
Ian Parker - Psychology is Not What You Think from 2020-03-11T09:12:39
Ian Parker is one of the most important contemporary critics of the discipline of psychology. A prolific writer, with over 25 books to his name, he has a formidable reputation in the fields of c...
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Beatrice Birch - Inner Fire and Soul Health from 2020-03-07T10:00:28
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Beatrice Birch who is the initiator of the residential healing community Listen
Laysha Ostrow - Live and Learn from 2020-02-26T09:49:21
Peter Statsny - Reimagining Psychiatry from 2020-02-19T10:23:23
Peter Stastny is a New York-based psychiatrist, documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the International Network toward Alte...
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Sarah Kamens and Peter Kinderman - Moving Mental Health Work Away From Diagnosis from 2020-02-12T10:16:23
Psychiatric diagnosis has come under increased scrutiny in recent years following the release of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s...
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David Joslin – Remedy Alpine, Giving Veterans the Power to Seek Personal Discovery from 2020-02-09T11:25:57
This week on MIA Radio we share what is something of an anniversary for us at MIA. This interview marks one hundred episodes since ...
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John Read - UK Esketamine Approval - Not so Fast from 2020-02-01T10:18:31
This week on MIA Radio we chat with Professor John Read of the University of East London....
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Wendy Dolin - Making Akathisia a Household Word from 2020-01-25T08:00
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Wendy Dolin founder of the Listen
MIA Report - The Whistleblower and Penn - A Final Accounting of Study 352 from 2020-01-22T10:30:40
Welcome to MIA Reports, showcasing our independent and original journalism devoted to rethinking psychiatry. We take selected MIA Reports and provide them as audio articles. Click Listen
Amanda Burrill - Self-Advocacy and Self-Belief – Escaping Psychiatric Drugs from 2020-01-18T08:00
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Amanda Burrill. After a successful career as a Surface Warfare Officer ...
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Anthony Ryan Hatch - The Management of Captive Populations with Psychiatric Drugs from 2020-01-15T20:02:44
Dr. Anthony Ryan Hatch is a sociologist and associate professor of Science in Society, African American ...
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Mary Watkins - Opening Doors in the Borderlands from 2020-01-08T10:22:21
Mary Watkins is a psychologist at Pacifica Graduate Institute who focuses on reorienting psychology toward social justice and liberatory ends. She has a fou...
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Peter Mayfield - Healing Youth with Nature and Connection from 2019-12-22T09:00
Peter Mayfield is the founder and executive director of Gateway Mountain Center in California, an innovative program for helping youth learn, heal, and thri...
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Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall - Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children from 2019-12-14T09:00
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Drs. Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall their new initiative, Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Ch...
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Psychological Support for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal from 2019-12-04T09:51:20
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to support for those who are struggling to withdraw from psychiatric drugs. Recently i...
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Celia Brown - On Human Rights and Surviving Race from 2019-11-20T19:31:42
This week on MIA Radio, MIA Correspondent Leah Harris interviews Celia Brown. Celia is a psychiatric...
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Lindsay Church – Military Mental Health – From the Brink and the Journey to Recovery from 2019-11-18T09:13:30
This week on MIA Radio, we interview US Navy Veteran and Co-Founder of Minority Veterans of Ame...
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Dorothy Dundas - Survivorship, Resistance, and Connection from 2019-10-26T13:50:33
This week on MIA Radio, MIA Correspondent Leah Harris interviews psychiatric survivor Dorothy Dundas. Dorothy is an activist, a mother, a mentor, and an incredible supporter of the activists in ...
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Joseph Gone - When Healing Looks Like Justice from 2019-10-18T09:10:21
Joseph Gone is a professor of both Anthropology and Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. He is a clinical and community psychologist by training, and he conducts participator...
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Steven C Hayes - A Liberated Mind from 2019-10-05T07:00
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor of Psychology Dr. Steven C. Hayes.
Dr. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor i...
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Jenny Freeman - Climate Change, Mental Health and Collective Action from 2019-10-04T08:59:17
Jennifer Freeman is a marriage and family therapist and an Expressive Arts Therapist. Since 2017, she has been researching narratives centered on how humans are facing climate change and respond...
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IIPDW - Carina Håkansson and John Read from 2019-10-02T08:38:04
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to psychiatric drug withdrawal and in particular the work of the International Institu...
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Peter Kinderman - Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care from 2019-09-28T07:00
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Professor Peter Kinderman. Peter is Professor of Cli...
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Zhiying Ma - Recuperating the Social Person in China from 2019-09-23T08:41
On MIA Radio, we interview Anthropologist Zhiying Ma, who explores me...
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Ben Furman - Understanding and Dealing With Adolescent Rage from 2019-09-14T08:09:43
On MIA Radio this week, in the second of a number of podcasts focused on parenting issues, we interview Ben Furman MD. Ben is a Finn...
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Dan Hurd - One Pedal at a Time from 2019-09-07T09:25:17
In our second week of MIA Veterans & Military Families, we interview U.S. Navy Veteran Dan Hurd. Dan is the Founder of Listen
Lillian Comas-Diaz - Addressing the Roots of Racial Trauma from 2019-08-14T08:27:22
Lillian Comas-Díaz is a pioneer in the field of ethnocultural approaches to mental health. She is both a clinical practitioner and multicultural feminist ps...
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Derek Blumke – The Mad in America Veterans Initiative from 2019-08-07T10:16:07
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to veterans, service members and military families. MIA has recently launched a Listen
Craig Wiener - ADHD, A Return to Psychology from 2019-08-03T14:37:07
On MIA Radio this week, in the first of a number of podcasts focussed on parenting issues, we interview Dr. Craig Wiener, a Listen
Pat Bracken - Toward a Critical Self-Reflective Psychiatry from 2019-08-02T07:00
Pat Bracken is a psychiatrist who questions many of the fundamental assumptions of his field. He has worked as a psychiatrist in rural Ireland, inner-city a...
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Diana Kopua - Learning a Different Way from 2019-07-18T08:31:20
MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Diana Kopua about the Mahi a Atua approach, the global mental health movement, and the importance of language and narratives in how we understand our world and ease...
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World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2 from 2019-07-11T08:00
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the ma...
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World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2 from 2019-07-11T08:00
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the ma...
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Lucy Johnstone - The Creation of a Conceptual Alternative to the DSM from 2019-07-03T08:37:44
Last year, Lucy Johnstone and her colleagues in the UK launched the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF), a set of ideas that represented a sharp departure from the biomedical conceptions that ...
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Lee Coleman - Breaking Out of the Circle - Creating a Non-violent Revolution from 2019-06-22T08:36:32
This week on MIA Radio, we continue our series of discussions with Doctor Lee Coleman. In previous p...
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Felicity Thomas and Richard Byng - Poverty, Pathology and Pills from 2019-06-12T08:19:53
On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Tim Beck interviewed Dr. Felicity Thomas and Dr. Richard Byng. Dr. Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Medical School and a Senior Research Fellow on the Cult...
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Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education from 2019-06-05T08:25:47
On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Gavin Crowell-Williamson interviewed Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and in the Department of Family Medicine ...
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David Cohen - Mad Science, Psychiatric Coercion and the Therapeutic State from 2019-05-15T08:28:38
On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Peter Simons interviewed David Cohen, PhD, a social worker, professor of social welfare, and Associate Dean for Research at the Luskin School of Public Affairs ...
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John Read - Fighting for the Meaning of Madness from 2019-05-08T08:00
On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Akansha Vaswani interviewed Dr. John Read, a clinical psychologist at the University of East London, about the influences on his work and research on mental hea...
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Lee Coleman – The Insanity Defence, Storytelling on the Witness Stand from 2019-04-20T08:36:03
This week on MIA Radio, we present our second chat with Doctor Lee Coleman. In the Listen
Jonathan Raskin - Constructing Alternatives to the DSM from 2019-04-17T08:51:35
On MIA Radio this week, MIA’s Je...
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Kelly Brogan - The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health from 2019-04-13T08:00
Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health Podcast: Episode 3
This past week, I had the great pleasure to talk with Dr. Kelly Brogan, a leading voice in natural approac...
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Vance Trudeau - Antidepressant Exposure Across Generations from 2019-04-03T08:34:18
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Zenobia Morrill interviews Dr. Vance Trudeau, a professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Dr. Trudeau describes a recent study...
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Lee Coleman - The Reign of Error from 2019-03-23T09:00
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Doctor Lee Coleman. Lee trained in psychiatry during the 1960s, quickly adopting a sceptical a...
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Mark Horowitz - Peer-Support Groups Were Right, Guidelines Were Wrong - Tapering Off Antidepressants from 2019-03-20T09:00
Interview by Peter Simons.
Dr. Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and researcher and recently co-authored, with Dr. David Taylor, a review of antidepressant withdrawal that...
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Gail Hornstein - First-Person Accounts of Madness and Global Mental Health from 2019-03-14T08:45:13
This week, MIA Radio presents the fifth in a series of interviews on the topic of the global “mental health” movement.” This series is being developed through a UMASS Boston initiative supported...
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Alita Taylor - Open Dialogue - Making Meaning from 2019-02-16T08:00
This week on MIA Radio, we turn our attention to Open Dialogue and we chat with psychotherapist and Open Dialogue trainer Alita Tay...
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Jim van Os - Towards Resilience and Possibilities and Away from Diseases and Symptoms from 2019-01-26T09:41:43
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor Jim van Os. Professor van Os is Chairman of the Division of Neuroscience at Utrecht ...
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Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity from 2018-12-21T20:19:03
In this second interview in our Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health series, Dr. Sharna Olfman interviews Dr. Darcia Narvaez.
In 1955, Erich Fromm published a book called The S...
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Will Davies - The Happiness Industry from 2018-11-17T10:16:58
When we discuss the issue of forced treatment, coercive mental health interventions like involuntary commitment, forced drugging, and electroconvulsive therapy usually come to mind. But force an...
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Sandy Steingard - Anatomy of a Psychiatrist from 2018-11-10T10:27:56
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. Listen
Derek Summerfield - Moving Global Mental Health "Outside Our Heads" from 2018-10-27T08:40:36
This week, MIA Radio presents the fourth in a series of interviews on the topic of the global “menta...
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China Mills - Global Mental Health - Coloniality, Technology and Medicalization from 2018-10-24T09:12:14
Today, we bring you the third in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. Part on...
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Jhilmil Breckenridge and Bhargavi Davar - Global Mental Health - An Old System Wearing New Clothes from 2018-10-20T08:00
Today, we bring you the second in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. These interviews are led by our Mad in America research news team.
On October 9...
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Melissa Raven - The Global Mental Health Movement - Cause for Concern from 2018-10-10T09:04:46
This week, we present the first in a series of interviews on the topic of the global ‘mental health’ movement. These interviews will be led by our Mad in America r...
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Zach Bush - Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind from 2018-10-04T08:00
Sharna Olfman Ph.D interviews Zach Bush MD
John Read and Sue Cunliffe - The 57th Maudsley Debate - This House Believes that ECT has no Place in Modern Medicine from 2018-10-01T07:23:47
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) or Electroshock as i...
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Conflicts of Interest Questioned in Review of Prescribed Drug Dependence from 2018-08-21T08:38:31
This week on MIA Radio, we discuss the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists representation on a Government-led review of Prescribed Dr...
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Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition, Mental Health and TED from 2018-07-28T06:00
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Julia Rucklidge. Dr Rucklidge is professor Listen
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 1 - Nicole Lamberson, Josef Witt-Doerring, Chris Paige from 2018-07-11T08:03:15
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of th...
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World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 1 - Nicole Lamberson, Josef Witt-Doerring, Chris Paige from 2018-07-11T08:03:15
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of th...
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Peter Groot and Akansha Vaswani - Tapering Strips and Shared Decision-Making from 2018-07-06T13:41:24
On MIA Radio this week, Akansha Vaswani and Dr Peter Groot discuss Tapering Strips, a novel and prac...
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Sami Timimi and John Read - Latest Developments with The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2018-06-19T12:26:43
This week on MIA Radio we provide an update on a complaint made to the UK Royal College o...
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Peter Gordon - Addressing the Divide Between the Arts and Medical Sciences from 2018-05-17T07:49:58
This week, we interview Dr Peter Gordon. Dr Gordon describes himself as a gardener with an interest in medicine. He trained in both medicine and landscape architecture before specialising in psy...
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Sera Davidow - Intersections Between Sexual Violence and Psychiatric Abuse from 2018-05-12T08:34:27
This week on MIA Radio we interview Sera Davidow, a psychiatric survivor and prolific activist for the human rights of people label...
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Laura Delano - Connecting people through the Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project from 2018-05-03T10:58:09
This week, we interview Laura Delano. Laura is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Inner Compass Initiative and The Withdrawal Project, which aim to create safe spaces for people to connect...
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John Read - UK Royal College of Psychiatry Refuses to Retract Misleading Statement about Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dismisses Complaint from 2018-05-02T07:27:16
Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving a formal complaint lodged with the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists.Listen
Jeffrey Michael Friedman - Trauma and Forced Psychiatric Treatment from 2018-04-14T08:38:02
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Jeffrey Michael Friedman, a clinical social worker and an activist in the psychiatric survivor...
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Russell Razzaque: Breaking Down Is Waking Up from 2018-04-09T16:40:34
This week, we interview Dr Russell Razzaque. Dr Razzaque currently works as a consultant psychiatrist and associate medical director in east London and, together with colleagues...
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Duncan Double - On Being a Critical Psychiatrist from 2018-03-17T09:43:55
Tina Minkowitz - The Abolition of Forced Psychiatric Interventions from 2018-03-10T10:57:45
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Tina Minkowitz. Tina is an attorney and survivor of psychiatry who represented the World Network for Users and Survivors of Ps...
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John Read - The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and Antidepressant Withdrawal from 2018-03-09T09:44:27
Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving the Royal College of Psychiatrists. These events relate to...
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Lucy Johnstone - The Power Threat Meaning Framework from 2018-03-05T09:07:46
This week, we interview Dr Lucy Johnstone. Lucy is a clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical model of psychiatry. She has worked in adult...
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Joanna Moncrieff - Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants from 2018-03-03T07:39:15
This week, we interview Dr Joanna Moncrieff. Dr Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, academic and author. She has an interest in the history, philosophy and politics of psychiatry, and ...
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Michael Fontaine - What the Ancient World can Teach us About Emotional Distress from 2018-02-17T08:54:12
This week, we interview Professor Michael Fontaine. Michael is Professor of Classics and Associate Vice Provost of Listen
Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions from 2018-01-27T09:09:44
This week, we interview journalist and author Johann Hari.
Johann is one of our foremost social scie...
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Kelli Foulkrod - Integrating Yoga with Psychotherapy from 2018-01-20T09:26:20
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Kelli Foulkrod....
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Jennifer Bahr - Treating the Whole Person from 2018-01-06T09:01:38
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. Jennifer Bahr. Dr Bahr is a passionate advocate for naturopathic approaches to health and wellbeing. She is the founder of...
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Sir Robin Murray - Reframing Psychotic Illness from 2017-12-23T09:24:28
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor Sir Robin Murray. Professor Murray is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Psychosis Service ...
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Celia Brown - Surviving Psychiatry from 2017-12-16T18:42:05
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Celia Brown. Celia is a psychiatric survivor a...
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Chris Hansen - Making Connections Through Intentional Peer Support from 2017-12-09T09:15:39
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Chris Hansen. Chris started working in New Zealand as an activist after a psychiatric hospitalization 20 years ago. Listen
George Atwood - Shattered Worlds, the Experience of Personal Annihilation from 2017-12-02T09:54:18
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. George Atwood. Dr. Atwood has devoted a substa...
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Noel Hunter and Brett Francis - Diagnosis, Empowerment and Equality from 2017-11-25T10:18:49
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Joseph Firth - The Role of Exercise and Nutrition in Early Psychosis from 2017-11-18T09:11:12
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Joseph Firth. Dr Firth is a postdoctoral res...
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Jay Joseph - Why Schizophrenia Genetic Research is Running on Empty from 2017-11-11T08:38:13
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Jay Joseph. Dr Joseph is a clinical psycholo...
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David Healy - Seeking a Cure for Protracted, Medication-related Sexual Dysfunction from 2017-11-04T08:53:07
This week we interview Dr David Healy.
Dr Healy is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, s...
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Gordon Warme - The Relationship Between Culture and Psychiatric ‘Disorders’ from 2017-10-28T08:36:12
This week we interview Dr Gordon Warme. Dr Warme is a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. He trained with Karl Menninger at the Menninger C...
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David Mielke - Educating in the era of the psychiatric diagnosis from 2017-10-21T08:37:21
This week we interview David Mielke. David is a psychology graduate and teacher in a California high school who has become increasingly concerned about the number of children th...
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Olga Runciman - Moving Beyond Psychiatry from 2017-10-14T08:37:40
This week on the Mad in America podcast we interview Olga Runciman.
Olga is an international trainer and speaker, wri...
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Bonnie Burstow and Nick Walker - An Introduction to Cognitive Liberty from 2017-10-07T06:59:44
This week, Mad in America editor Emily Sheera Cutler presents the first in a series of interviews that examine the many important issues around forced treatment an...
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Michael O’Loughlin - Exploring Narrative Approaches to Psychological Distress from 2017-09-30T07:45:02
This week, Mad in America’s news editor Justin Karter interviews Professor Michael O’Loughlin.
Profes...
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Irving Kirsch - The Placebo Effect and What It Tells Us About Antidepressant Efficacy from 2017-09-23T08:28:30
This week I have had the honour of interviewing Dr Irving Kirsch.
Dr Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Pl...
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Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 2) from 2017-09-18T06:46:29
This week we have a very special guest for you, it has been my honour to be able to interview Dr. Peter Breggin.
Dr. B...
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John Read - What the Science and Evidence Tell Us About Electroshock (ECT) from 2017-09-09T08:41:41
This week we have an interview with Professor John Read. Professor Read worked for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of menta...
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Bob Fiddaman - Taking on the Pharmaceutical Regulators and the Seroxat Scandal from 2017-09-02T07:52:58
This week we have an interview with Bobby Fiddaman.
Bobby is a very well known author, blogger and researcher who has been writing about psychiatric drugs and the many issues involved for...
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Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 1) from 2017-08-20T10:42:36
This week we have a very special guest for you, it has been my honour to be able to interview Dr. Peter Breggin.
Dr. Breggin is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former ...
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Rani Bora - Innate Health and Resilience, How It Differs to Mainstream Psychiatric Treatment from 2017-08-19T08:00:17
This week, we interview Dr. Rani Bora.
Dr. Bora is a qualified Psychiatrist and Mental Health and Re...
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Jim van Os - Rethinking Biological Psychiatry from 2017-08-11T08:02:38
This week, we interview Professor Jim van Os.
Professor van Os is Chairman of the Department of Psyc...
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Kermit Cole - Dialogical Approaches to Extreme States from 2017-08-05T07:32
This week, we interview Kermit Cole. Kermit’s first career was in film and television, directing, amongst others, Living Proof: HIV and the Pursui...
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Pratima Singh - Exploring Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry from 2017-07-29T08:11:23
This week, we interview Dr. Pratima Singh. Dr. Singh completed her medical degree in India, before moving to the UK to work at the Maudsley NHS Ho...
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Monica Cassani - Achieving Health in Body, Mind and Spirit from 2017-07-22T08:09:13
This week, we have an interview with Monica Cassani. Monica has seen the mental health system from both sides – as a social worker and as a person...
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Will Hall - A Harm Reduction Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2017-07-15T08:16:54
This week, we have an interview with Will Hall. Will is a mental health advocate, counsellor, writer, and teacher. Will advocates the recovery app...
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World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2017 - Raising Global Understanding from 2017-07-11T07:25:14
This week, we have a special episode to join in with the events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day.
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Mo Hannah - Changing the Teaching of the Biological Model from 2017-07-08T08:09:20
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we talk to Dr. Maureen (Mo) Hannah.
Mo is a Professor of Psychology at Siena...
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Jim Gottstein - Patient Rights in Mental Healthcare from 2017-06-30T13:24:55
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we talk to Jim Gottstein, president and founder of the organisation Law Project for Psychiatric Rights. J...
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