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UCSF Grand Rounds|Dina Tyler|Madness Radio from 2023-12-07T17:28:28
Dina Tyler’s FANTASTIC, heartful, brilliant December 2023 Grand Rounds talk at UCSF Medical School, “Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives.”...
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A Ten Day Voyage|R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook|Madness Radio from 2023-09-17T19:43:42
Audiobook mp3 of Chapter 7 “A Ten Day Voyage”, from The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, by R.D. Laing, read by Will Hall. Full book .mp3 (cntrl/rtclck save as to download): http...
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Abolition Is Disability Justice|Tina Minkowitz|Madness Radio from 2023-09-09T15:28
Why are assault, kidnapping, and torture illegal – unless you have a psychiatric diagnosis? Is psychiatry’s legal double standard unjust in the same way a double standard would be for being fema...
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Abolish Psy?|Craig Newnes|Madness Radio from 2023-07-05T20:53:17
Are psychotherapy’s assumptions completely misguided? What is really at stake in the research and practice of psychology? Is it possible to take a step back and see “psy” for what it is? Craig N...
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Flight From Trauma|Paris Williams|Madness Radio from 2023-05-11T03:41:01
How does the terror of child abuse inspire the heights of spiritual awakening? Are risky behaviors with drugs and extreme sports also a search towards healing? Co-hosts Dina Tyler and Will Hall ...
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Rethinking Therapy|Will Hall and Ryan Hofrichter|Madness Radio from 2023-04-25T21:54:37
Therapist Ryan Hofrichter flips the mic on Madness Radio host Will Hall for a wide-ranging discussion about madness, psychiatry, and being a therapist. Topics include power in therapy, psychiatr...
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Youth Leadership|Felicity Krueger&Oryx Cohen|Madness Radio from 2023-04-04T04:03:01
Can teens lead their own mental health education? Are suicidal feelings and self harm “contagions” that young people shouldn’t talk about? How can mutual aid and peer support solve our youth men...
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Lyme And Dyskinesia|Monica Cassani|Madness Radio from 2023-03-09T17:18:57
Are trauma, medication injury, and holistic health connected? Does Lyme disease infection relate to tardive dyskinesia from psychiatric drugs? Is there a spiritual purpose to debilitating illnes...
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Consent Not Required|Rob Wipond|Madness Radio from 2023-02-28T04:57:11
Read this book! Is discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities ever justified? Is denying equality before the law necessary in times of crisis – or do...
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Abolish Psychiatry|Vesper Moore|Madness Radio from 2023-02-08T22:19:57
Should we reform – or abolish – psychiatry? Can capitalism provide mental health, or do we need some kind of socialism or anti-capitalism? Vesper Moore is a leader in the youngest wave of the ps...
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Tea with Spirit|Karin Jervert|Madness Radio from 2023-01-21T19:30:21
When Karin Jervert withdrew from 5 psychiatric medications the conflicting voices and forces in her head became pathways to art and spirit. Through Buddhism and earth-based ceremony Karin discov...
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Psychiatric Incarceration|Cassie Wilson|Madness Radio from 2023-01-09T22:00:22
When Cassie Wilson experienced mental distress due to an internship setting triggering past trauma memories, she called student counseling – and then police came to her home, handcuffed her, and...
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Mad Camp July 20-24 2023|Madness Radio from 2023-01-01T21:16:59
Mad Camp is coming! July 20-24 2023 mad people are gathering for summer camp in the forested mountains two hours north of San Francisco. You heard that right! Swimming, hiking, campfires, hangin...
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Psychedelic Therapy Abuse: Ending the Silence|Will Hall|Madness Radio from 2022-12-01T23:39
The essay from Mad In America Sept 2021 “Ending The Silence Around Psychedelic Therapy Abuse”, read by Will Hall: Michael Pollan’s hugely influential new book on psychedelic medicine, How to Cha...
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Mad Conversations|Erick Fabris|Madness Radio from 2022-11-28T02:23:48
What if we just started having conversations about how to help each other through hard times? And took the time needed to really have discussions and hear the experiences of mad people? Erick Fa...
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Love Is a Skill|Laura-Marie&Jacks McNamara|Madness Radio from 2022-10-17T22:43:01
What does a life dedicated to love and freedom look like? Laura-Marie River Victor Peace Nopales joins co-hosts Jacks McNamara and Will Hall to explore the most important questions of all — by w...
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Somatic Trauma Therapy|Phillippe Citrine&Jacks McNamara|Madness Radio from 2022-02-20T05:45:48
Join us for an in-depth and practical deep dive into trauma therapy — from the perspective of three counselors/coaches at the leading edge of personal healing and social change. Will Hall and co-ho...
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Schizophrenia Factory Christmas Story|Will Hall|Madness Radio from 2021-12-21T23:32:14
Just in time for the holidays, a chapter from Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness: “Christmas Vacation in the Schizophrenia Factory,” a personal account from Will Hall from a visit...
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Survivors As Therapists|Jacks McNamara|Madness Radio from 2021-11-05T16:18:27
Can survivors be therapists – and even better at it? Jacks McNamara – poet, trauma healing coach, and co-founder of The Icarus Project – joins Will Hall to discuss the calling to became a therapist...
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Bicycles and Madness!|Nedra Deadwyler|Madness Radio from 2021-08-21T19:25:21
Nedra Deadwyler of Atlanta Georgia’s Civil Bikes interviews Madness Radio’s Will Hall about bicycles, mental health, and human liberation, for the KBOO FM Bicycle Show. https://www.nedradeadwylerco...
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Nothing About Us Without Us|Jay Mahler|Madness Radio from 2021-05-26T04:59:31
Jay Mahler was one of the originators of the psychiatric survivors movement in the 1960s, joining protests with the Free Speech Movement at the University of California Berkeley- the beginnings of ...
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Medication Withdrawal|Adele Framer|Madness Radio from 2021-04-19T21:16:21
Survivingantidepressants.org is one of the leading and longest running communities of mutual and and peer self-help around psychiatric drug withdrawal. Adele Framer – alto strata – founded the site...
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Oddball Magazine w/ Will Hall|Jason Wright|Madness Radio from 2020-12-23T02:35:52
In this guest podcast, Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine sits down with Madness Radio host Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, to discuss mental health abo...
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A Little Crazy–Show Me All Your Scars|Susie Meserve|Madness Radio from 2020-10-31T18:22:25
At the Madness Radio book launch a few years ago writer and poet Susie Meserve read her creative nonfiction essay “A Little Crazy,” included in the anthology Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of...
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Pandemic Story Time|The Iceling|Madness Radio from 2020-04-06T17:46:28
You’re shut inside and it’s time for a children’s book! For this episode we’ve selected 1999’s The Iceling by Will Hall.
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Awakening as a Medium|Jyl Ion|Madness Radio from 2019-11-30T17:56:45
Jyl Ion hears voices, but she refuses to view these non-ordinary experiences as a sign of mental illness. Instead Jyl came off 16 years of multiple toxic medications, talks to her ancestor spirits ...
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Breathwork for Bipolar and Psychosis|Sean Blackwell|Madness Radio from 2019-11-02T19:18:11
Do bipolar and psychosis have a healing potential blocked by suppression, medications, and avoidance? What if we could help people safely and intentionally explore, express, and understand these fr...
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Decolonizing Early Psychosis|Rachel Jane Liebert|Madness Radio from 2019-10-02T17:43:13
Do early psychosis programs serve healing – or function as surveillance and control? Are treatments for paranoia actually themselves forms of paranoia, based on scientific racism and white supremac...
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Ayahuasca Psychosis and Spiritual Awakening|Martha Elisabeth|Madness Radio from 2019-08-10T19:28:50
After taking the psychedelic drug ayahuasca Martha Elisabeth went into an extended altered state diagnosed as psychotic. Her terrifying ordeal ignited a spiritual initiation that eventually brought...
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Ayahuasca Psychosis and Spiritual Awakening|Martha Elisabeth|Madness Radio from 2019-08-10T19:28:50
After taking the psychedelic drug ayahuasca Martha Elisabeth went into an extended altered state diagnosed as psychotic. Her terrifying ordeal ignited a spiritual initiation that eventually brought...
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Dignity and Humiliation|Evelin Lindner|Madness Radio from 2019-08-08T19:12:59
What is at the root of world violence? How does psychiatry re-create dynamics of humiliation and shame that drive people crazy? Is there a just and equitable way out of the spirals of attack and co...
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R.D. Laing The Politics of Experience Audiobook|Madness Radio from 2019-08-08T18:16:11
Audiobook mp3 of Introduction and Chapter 1 “Persons and Experience”, from The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, by R.D. Laing, read by Will Hall. Full book .mp3 (cntrl/rtclck save a...
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Outside Mental Health Preface Audiobook|Will Hall|Madness Radio from 2019-04-22T14:44:19
What does it mean to be called “crazy” in a crazy world? Listen to the free audiobook of the Preface to Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness, written and read by Will Hall. Outside ...
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Judaism Madness and Spirit|Caroline Mazel-Carlton|Madness Radio from 2019-03-27T16:01:31
Voice hearers, mystics, visionaries, and mad people are found throughout the scriptures of Judaism. What does Jewish theology have to teach us about madness and psychiatric diagnosis? How can moder...
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Soteria Alaska|Connor Tindall|Madness Radio from 2019-01-09T08:44:04
What are the key ingredients of alternative mental health programs – and what makes them different and successful? Connor Tindall followed his calling to become a a therapist after confronting mist...
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Second Story Hospital Alternative|Adrian Bernard|Madness Radio from 2018-12-06T12:44:30
Can the breakdown of psychosis show the way forward to spiritual breakthrough? Is there a path through the depths of mental health crisis independent of hospitals, doctors, and therapists? Adrian B...
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Jungian Therapy for Psychosis|George Mecouch|Madness Radio from 2018-11-04T04:29:26
Has modern psychiatry lost its soul? How can dreams, storytelling, and imagination help people in emotional crisis – including psychosis and madness? What lessons can we learn from shamanism, the p...
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Compassionate Psychotherapy|Olga Runciman|Madness Radio from 2018-09-28T20:14:51
How is psychotherapy different when the therapist is also a survivor? What vital lessons must therapists learn from people who have experienced psychosis? If therapy is an imbalance of power betwee...
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Systems View of Life|Fritjof Capra|Madness Radio from 2018-09-08T17:27:27
What does healthcare become when science is limited by a mechanistic, machine view of reality? How does a mechanistic view shape concepts of mental health and illness – and deny the fundamental ali...
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Sane Vegan Transition|Sabrina Louise|Madness Radio from 2018-08-10T04:53:54
Does a diet without animal products improve mental health? Why can changing to plant based nutrition be so hard to sustain? And are people’s food ethics a symptom of eating disorder or neglected se...
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Life After Psych Meds|Laura Delano|Madness Radio from 2018-05-28T21:51:19
How can people come off psychiatric medications in the safest way? What are the key lessons and vital ingredients for leaving psychiatric care? Is there life after meds? Laura Delano spent 14 years...
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Queer Teen Pregnancy|Nina Packebush|Madness Radio from 2018-04-20T19:08:42
What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What’s it like to be a queer pregnant teenager? And is it true that friends do make the best medicine? Nina Packebush explores these quest...
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Legacy of R.D. Laing|Michael Guy Thompson|Madness Radio from 2018-04-13T06:01:55
Is psychosis a journey and a breakthrough to somewhere more authentic? Should unhappy people be made to adjust to a mad society? Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing was a fierce critic of the mental h...
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Crazywise Film|Phil Borges|Madness Radio from 2017-12-05T13:37:19
Is madness breakdown or initiation into a spiritual calling? Crazywise is a documentary film that explores the meaning of psychosis from the perspective of traditional cultures and shamanism, follo...
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Traditional South African Healing|Gogo Ekhaya Esima|Madness Radio from 2017-10-01T16:58:28
How can seeing visions and hearing voices be transformed into a spiritual gift for healing? What does the initiation ordeal into becoming a shaman involve? Gogo Ekhaya Esima was diagnosed with psyc...
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Hearing Voices|Lisa Forestell|Madness Radio from 2017-08-12T20:45:52
What is it like to hear voices — and are all voices harmful or can they also be helpers? What does voice hearing say about the human mind – and the society we live in? And how can we support people...
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Meditation and Liberation|Nirali Shah|Madness Radio from 2017-03-21T03:54:05
Is mindfulness meditation about calming the mind and accepting things as they are? Or is it a force for social change and challenging oppression? Can meditation help us become intimate with our wil...
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Audiobook: Coming Off Psychiatric Medications Harm Reduction Guide from 2017-02-28T04:42:54
Now available as an audiobook! Based in more than 10 years work in the peer support movement,The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 52-page guide is used internationally by individuals, families,...
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Refugees and Trauma|Khatera Aslami-Tamplen|Madness Radio from 2017-02-01T10:07:36
What is it like to flee a war-torn country as a child? What lasting psychological effects do refugees face? Can peer support and trauma informed care lead to lasting recovery? Khatera Aslami Tample...
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Borderlands Acupuncture|Herman Garcia–Ryan Bemis|Madness Radio from 2016-12-08T10:21:50
Are psychiatric treatments, experts, and medications the best way for traumatized communities to heal their mental health problems? Could indigenous practices, including traditional Chinese medicin...
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Geography of Madness|Frank Bures|Madness Radio from 2016-06-28T03:24:57
Are beliefs in witchcraft and “voodoo death” not real? Do magical explanations of disease mean people are primitive and less educated? Or are stories and beliefs at the heart of reality for all cul...
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Human Rights in India|Bhargavi Davar|Madness Radio from 2016-06-07T23:37:34
How does the legacy of colonialism affect mental health in India? Are women’s rights, spiritual freedom, and ant-colonialism intertwined? Do women who choose a path of spiritual renunciation have t...
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Intergenerational Trauma|Naas Siddiqui|Madness Radio from 2016-04-15T14:51:14
What if psychotic experiences express historical and intergenerational trauma? Does one person’s emotional crisis reach beyond their own individual mind? Could synchronicities and meaningful coinci...
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New Vision for Psychiatry|Jim van Os|Madness Radio from 2016-03-22T04:54:57
What if psychiatry recognized that schizophrenia does not exist? How might diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era) be replaced by spectrums of experience that show how psychotic exper...
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Stop The Murphy Bill|Leah Harris|Madness Radio from 2016-01-25T13:36:22
The Families in Mental Health Crisis Act HR 2646 — The Murphy Bill — proposes drastic changes to US mental health policies. Will the Murphy Bill curb violence and improve care? Or will more forced ...
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Economic Austerity and Mental Health|Mary O’Hara|Madness Radio from 2015-09-05T04:34:46
Is mental health about individual diseases, or the health of communities and countries as a whole? How do economic policies after the 2008 crisis impact disability rights, suicide rates, and commun...
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Journey Through Mania|Oryx Cohen|Madness Radio from 2015-08-29T20:31:01
Psychiatric survivor leader Oryx Cohen was at a national conference when a seizure suddenly launched him out of his body and into a visionary state of madness. Avoiding medications or hospitalizati...
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Evolution of Mind|Maxine Sheets-Johnstone|Madness Radio from 2015-06-01T20:05:08
Is thinking a cognitive process of information input and output? Or do consciousness and emotion take place in our bodies – animated, moving, and responsive to the environment? And what would Darwi...
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Lincoln’s Depression|Joshua Wolf Shenk|Madness Radio from 2015-01-28T18:29:34
Celebrated US President Abraham Lincoln also suffered from life-threatening depression. Did he view his “melancholy” as a treatable illness, as a punishment from God — or as a source of his gifts? ...
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Special Messages|Tim Dreby|Madness Radio from 2014-12-31T13:08:32
What if you were the only one seeing coded messages, covert realities, and elaborate plots all around you? Does that make you out of touch with reality, “paranoid” and “psychotic?” Or is it real — ...
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Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia|Bert Karon from 2014-11-01T07:01:39
In schizophrenia really an “incurable illness” — or a state of chronic terror? Are there ways for psychotherapy to reach people in different realities? And can talk therapy offer a humane and empow...
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Communicating With Psychosis|Dina Tyler from 2014-10-09T16:09:02
Are there ways to reach people in states of madness? How do talking with ghosts, hearing voices, and seeing visions — as well as enduring family turmoil — relate to psychotic crisis? When Dina Tyle...
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Family Homes|Carina Håkansson from 2014-07-02T04:30:19
What if ordinary families could provide care for people psychiatry has given up on? Is there a way out for people stuck long-term as mental patients? Can human relationships and living together be ...
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Healing Connection|Lauren Spiro from 2014-06-01T05:12:19
How do we recover from childhood violence? When Lauren Spiro was 14, her father was murdered. Eighteen months later, she began to have unusual spiritual experiences and was diagnosed with schizophr...
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Redefining Research: Nev Jones from 2014-04-01T15:41:40
What if researchers collaborated with patients rather than treating them as “informants” and objects of study? Nev Jones survived her mother’s frightening extreme states — and then her own mind unr...
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Risky Pills: David Healy from 2014-03-01T09:21:36
Adverse effects from prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death in America. How can we know if the pills we take are actually safe? What can we do if they aren’t? Dr. David Healy, intern...
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Medical Coercion: Tomi Gomory from 2014-01-01T12:17:28
If madness isn’t like other illnesses, what is it? Should psychiatry have the power of legal coercion? How can the legacy of Thomas Szasz inform new ways of helping people? Tomi Gomory, associate p...
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Indian Country Psychology: David Walker from 2013-12-01T09:12:45
How is the legacy of colonialism impacting American Indian mental health today? Does the Indian Health Service meet the needs of the people on tribal land? Can Native peoples revitalize cultural tr...
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Psychology of Power: David Bedrick from 2013-11-01T14:06:12
Does psychotherapy cover up issues of power and social justice? Are talk show therapists providing help, or blaming individuals for their problems? David Bedrick, counselor, attorney, and author of...
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Understanding Borderline Trauma: Rita Marshall from 2013-10-01T10:38:38
Why are so many trauma survivors, especially women, diagnosed “borderline?” Is the label useful — or sexist and degrading? How can people who live through intergenerational violence be understood a...
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Effective Family Support: Krista MacKinnon from 2013-09-01T08:48:40
How can family members help a relativein extreme crisis — instead of worsening the situation? Is there a way out of treatment power struggles and arguments about “insight”? And what do families nee...
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Benzodiazepine Recovery: Matt Samet from 2013-08-01T08:31:28
Are Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan and other benzodiazepines really more addictive than heroin? How can these common drugs for anxiety actually worsen the symptoms they’re prescribed to treat? What are th...
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Elders and Forgetfulness: Stan Tomandl from 2013-07-01T08:27:50
Are elders living with forgetfulness, Alzheimer’s, and dementia unreachable? Are there parallels with states called psychotic? Can meaning be found in the confusion of brain injury and coma? Stan T...
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Unmaking Diagnosis: Gary Greenberg from 2013-06-01T12:18:13
Why did the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual become so controversial? Is it possible to alleviate human suffering without classifying it as a mental disorder? Gary Greenberg, ps...
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Politics of Language: Sera Davidow from 2013-05-01T15:31:55
How do psychiatric labels shape our perceptions of others – and ourselves? Are there better ways to understand emotional distress? Does the “peer movement” offer real alternatives — or present new ...
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Queer Poetry Inbetweenland: Jacks McNamara from 2013-04-01T07:40:13
Is trauma also a source of creative inspiration? Can sexual passion be a force for healing? And do we have to live in either/or boxes — or is there somewhere else? Artist and activist Jacks McNamar...
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Meaning of Medications: David Cohen from 2013-02-02T04:29:52
Why does the same psychiatric drug help one person – but harm another? Do psychiatric medications “work” by chemistry alone – or through expectation, placebo, and social factors? What is the differ...
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Breaking Barriers: Meaghan Buisson from 2013-01-01T16:25:07
Is a champion athlete more powerful than madness and psychiatric medications? When Meaghan Buisson said she wanted to break the world record for inline skating, her psychiatrist thought she was men...
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Singing in the Dark|Susan McKeown on Madness Radio from 2012-12-02T00:22:33
Is poetry the way to truly understand madness? Do rituals and music — such as Ireland’s tradition of keening — have the power to heal emotional suffering? Susan McKeown, Grammy award-winning singer...
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Beyond Biological Reductionism: Raymond Tallis from 2012-11-01T16:20:07
Can people’s behavior really be explained by neuroscience and our evolutionary needs as hunter-gatherers — or is this just a popular fad? Does understanding the brain really solve the mysteries of ...
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Multiple Worlds: Anusuya StarBear from 2012-10-01T16:17:54
Is it possible to navigate the “multiple worlds” that emerge during psychotic experiences? Are voices and altered states also like a shamanic journey, needing guidance to find your way? Anusuya Sta...
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Madness and Renewal: Michael Cornwall from 2012-09-01T16:15:07
What if people struggling with madness could explore their emotions in a supportive sanctuary? Do frightening ‘psychotic’ experiences have the power to transform and heal? Is breakdown also breakth...
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Coming Off Psych Meds: Laura Delano from 2012-08-01T23:12:15
What do you do when medications for your emotional problems become worse than the problems themselves? Laura Delano went to a psychiatrist at age 18, and for the next decade was prescribed nineteen...
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Healing Sex: Staci Haines from 2012-07-01T16:10:03
Childhood sexual abuse is pervasive in our society, leaving lifelong wounds that affect men as well as women. Is it enough to hold perpetrators accountable, or are there deeper causes of abuse? Do ...
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Meaning From Voices: Eleanor Longden from 2012-06-01T23:06:59
Hearing voices is strongly connected with traumatic experiences, but are voices a brain malfunction or a creative strategy for protection? UK psychologist Eleanor Longden survived a diagnosis of pa...
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Ethical Therapy: Toby Watson from 2012-04-01T16:01:46
Can psychotherapy be a replacement for medication for psychosis and extreme states? Should therapists hospitalize suicidal clients against their will -- even when they could be traumatized by the v...
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Bipolar Children: Sharna Olfman from 2012-03-06T15:59:01
Why are so many children being diagnosed bipolar? Do medications treat disease - or just keep children under control? What else can parents do when faced with difficult behavioral problems? Sharn...
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Amazonian Healing: Metsa Niwue from 2012-02-03T23:55:31
Shamans of the Amazon jungle heal the spirit by communicating with plants and singing people back to health. Can indigenous medicine, including the psychedelic ayahuasca, help anxiety, depression, ...
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Chemical Crucifixion: Grainne Humphrys from 2012-01-01T15:49:35
Could a young man's overwhelming visions of Christ and apocalypse be a creative response to life trauma, rather than signs of paranoid schizophrenia? Does madness unfold differently depending on wh...
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Healing Veterans: Paula Caplan from 2011-12-01T15:46:12
How can we truly help combat veterans facing the aftermath of war? Is veteran trauma a sign of mental illness, or a healthy response to violent situations? Are medications and therapy the answer?Pa...
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Dignity of Elders: Carole Hayes-Collier from 2011-11-01T22:42:37
Why are nearly a third of all elders in nursing homes given anti-psychotic drugs, despite life threatening side effects? Are medications being used as chemical restraints? Can nursing homes be plac...
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Talking About Suicidal Feelings: David Webb from 2011-09-01T15:32:52
How common are suicidal feelings? Is a psychiatric illness behind suicidal despair -- or a meaningful and even spiritual life crisis? Does forced hospitalization really provide help? Suicide att...
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Physics, Dreaming and Extreme States: Arnold Mindell from 2011-03-01T15:21:11
What is reality? Why do people in extreme states feel connected to the universe, and experience uncanny and even supernatural events? Does quantum physics have something to teach us about madness? ...
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Exporting Mental Disorders: Ethan Watters from 2011-01-02T15:17:40
How did pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline create"depression"in Japan -- and a billion dollar market for its anti-depressant drug Paxil? Why do people diagnosed with schizophrenia recover more ...
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Therapy for Psychosis: Daniel Mackler from 2010-12-15T23:09:28
Can therapy reach people in extreme states of"psychosis"-- without using medications? Do we need to give a diagnosis to help someone? Why are counselors afraid to listen to their"mad"clients? Ne...
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Meanings of Madness: Gail Hornstein from 2010-11-03T22:06:58
Seamstress Agnes Richter was locked away in a mental asylum in the 1890s, and was so determined to have a voice that she embroidered her personal story onto the jacket she wore on the ward. What is...
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Icarus Project: Sascha DuBrul from 2010-10-04T15:04:12
How did the New York underground of punk rock music, squatting, and homeless protest give rise to a thriving and innovative peer-run mental health community? Are there creative gifts to be found in...
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Bipolar Medication Myths: Dr Joanna Moncrieff from 2010-08-26T14:59:27
Is bipolar disorder a disease? Can medications like lithium correct chemical imbalances and stabilize mood? Do psychiatric drugs act completely differently on the brain than recreational drugs? U...
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Schizophrenia and Black Politics: Jonathan Metzl from 2010-06-11T21:56:04
How did the definition of schizophrenia change during the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s? Why did a disease primarily affecting withdrawn white housewives suddenly become focused on ...
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Open Dialogue Alternative: Mary Olson from 2010-04-19T21:54:24
Is a'psychotic'crisis inside one person's mind -- or does it happen between people, in their relationship? Can therapy untangle the web of madness by addressing the family, providers, and entire so...
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Violent Voices: Erica van den Akker from 2010-04-02T14:50:23
People who hear voices are no more violent than anyone else -- but what about the small number of voice hearers that do actually commit violent crimes? Are medications and locked wards the best way...
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Prison Mental Health: Terry Kupers from 2010-03-02T14:46:30
The US incarcerates more people than any country in the world - and 70% are people of color. Do we need better mental health care inside prisons -- or do prisons themselves cause trauma and madness...
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Schizophrenia Psychotherapy: Catherine Penney from 2010-01-21T22:39:53
Can a severe, chronic case of"schizophrenia"ever recover? Is psychotherapy an alternative to medications? What role does trauma play in madness? Hear the inspiring story of how Catherine Penney, ...
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Survivor Spoken Word: Leah Harris from 2009-12-30T14:36:48
Leah Harris was orphaned after both parents were diagnosed with schizophrenia and died from medication toxicity. Today she is a leading voice in survivor activism, and her powerful spoken word poet...
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Ireland Voices: Brian Hartnett from 2009-12-16T14:34:22
Can recreational drugs be an opening to genuine spiritual awakening? Brian Hartnett's passion for rave dance music -- as well as alcohol and ecstasy -- cost him his career. Doctors labeled his pa...
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Recovery and Diagnosis: Lisa Darbyshire from 2009-12-01T14:31:30
How can a chaotic and oppressive family life lead to trauma and extreme states? Do medications and diagnosis provide help, or can they make things worse? Psychiatric abuse survivor Lisa Darbyshir...
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Autism Self Advocacy: Ari Ne’eman from 2009-10-14T14:28:43
What does it mean to be autistic, have Asperger's, or be on the autism spectrum? Is autism a disease to be overcome, or a difference to be embraced? Is autism advocacy like mad pride activism? Ar...
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Conscience of Psychiatry: Peter Breggin from 2009-09-16T21:25:51
What do modern psychiatric drug treatments have in common with lobotomy? Is informed consent possible when patients'judgment is impaired by medication? Should psych drugs be banned? For more than...
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Beyond Belief: Tamasin Knight from 2009-09-16T14:23:39
How do we respond to bizarre beliefs like CIA brain chips, abduction by aliens, hearing voices, spirit possession, or telepathy? Is respect for a different reality"colluding"with a delusion? Or is ...
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Paxil On Trial: Alison Bass from 2009-08-26T21:20:46
When GlaxoSmithKline was caught lying about the risks of its blockbuster anti-depressant Paxil, it set off ongoing investigations. How did New York state take on one of the world's most powerful c...
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Mad Science Mad Pride: Bradley Lewis from 2009-08-12T14:18:18
What is the mad movement's best response to science? How is mad pride different from gay pride? Do we want to become equal with"normal"people -- or challenge the idea of normal itself? What about s...
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Our Daily Meds: Melody Petersen from 2009-07-14T14:16
More than 100,000 people die in the US each year from prescription drugs -- used as directed by their doctor. How did aggressive marketing make our health care system a cause of widespread sickness...
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Art and Schizophrenia: Louis Sass from 2009-06-30T14:13:02
Does modern art, such as Artaud, Beckett, and Duchamp, parallel the mad frames of mind that get labeled"schizophrenia?"Is extreme sensitivity and inner self-consciousness behind artistic innovation...
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Hearing Voices Movement: Jacqui Dillon from 2009-06-16T14:10:20
What is it like to hear voices? How do people learn to live with their voices, and are voices sometimes positive and helpful? What is the connection between voices and trauma? Jacqui Dillon, voic...
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School Bullying: Dawn Menken from 2009-06-02T14:07:42
What are the lasting impacts of taunting, teasing, and physical harassment between children? Why are kids who are different singled out and picked on? What can parents do if their children are vict...
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Electroshock Deception: Linda Andre from 2009-05-12T14:05:35
Why is ECT, electroconvulsive therapy or electroshock, so widely used today? How is the ECT industry manipulating research and public perceptions the way tobacco companies did about cigarettes? Wha...
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Alcohol Alternatives: Anne Fletcher from 2009-04-15T13:59:46
How can people recover from serious drinking problems? Are 12-step and Alcoholics Anonymous programs right for everyone? Anne Fletcher, author ofSober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Pro...
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Sane Medication Policy: Robert Whitaker from 2009-03-30T13:52:33
Has society's embrace of psychiatric medications led to recovery -- or chronic disability? What would honest medical policy and treatment standards be if they were free of pharmaceutical company co...
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Is Shyness a Disease? Christopher Lane from 2009-03-11T22:55:58
Do pharmaceutical companies control the social definition of normal? Can advertising and public relations campaigns turn acceptable personality differences into unacceptable disorders? British-Ame...
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Beyond Meds: Monica Cassani from 2009-02-23T15:53:20
Blogger and former social worker Gianna Kali discusses her experience going into the mental health system after taking psychedelic drugs, spiritual emergence, decades of treatment with more than 30...
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Mad Movement Strategies: Gabriella Coleman from 2009-02-02T15:51:17
Psychiatric survivor activism is a vital force changing American mental health care, leading the way in human rights reforms and challenging pharmaceutical company corruption long before the scanda...
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Schizophrenia Recovery: Rufus May from 2009-01-19T15:48:52
UK clinical psychologist Rufus May descended into madness -- convinced he was on a spy mission and that animals were robots, he even walked into a family gathering naked. How did Rufus find meanin...
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Depression And Oppression: Alisha Ali from 2009-01-07T15:46:39
Is depression a result of poverty? How can community development and economic empowerment affect mental health? Psychology professor Alisha Ali discusses the dangers of turning social problems int...
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Birth Trauma w/ Annie Robinson from 2008-12-17T15:44:26
Labor doula and Icarus Project student organizer Annie Robinson talks about her experience in the mental health system as an adolescent, and how it led to her interest in changing medical birthing ...
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Psychologist and Survivor: Author Ronald Bassman from 2008-12-16T22:52:35
Internationally known advocate, psychiatric abuse survivor organizer, and clinical psychologist Ronald Bassman discusses and reads from his new book,A Fight To Be: A Psychologist's Experience F...
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Homelessness And Mental Health w/ Marykate Connor from 2008-12-10T15:41:38
Marykate Connor, founder of Caduceus Outreach Services in San Francisco, talks about her innovative work helping homeless people with mental health problems. She discusses the criminal justice syst...
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Holistic Drug Alternatives: Gracelyn Guyol from 2008-12-04T15:39:39
Grace Guyol, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and author ofHealing Depression and Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs: Inspiring Stories of Restoring Mental Health Through Natural Therapies, dis...
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Hoarding Stuff w/ Randy Frost from 2008-11-26T15:37:24
Psychology professor Randy Frost, author ofBuried In Treasures, discusses his work on hoarding, people who collect so much stuff excessively that it disrupts their lives or creates a healt...
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Live Through This Anthology: Sabrina Chapadjiev from 2008-09-10T15:34:37
Editor Sabrina Chapadjiev discusses the new Seven Stories Press anthologyLive Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction, a rich collection of women artists sharing intimate accounts...
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Reinventing Bipolar: Steven Morgan from 2008-08-27T15:29:59
Advocate and bipolar survivor Steven Morgan talks about his experiences with spirituality and meditation, including healing through dream work. Listen to the recent profile the New York Times did ...
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Madness and Technology: Jeffrey Goins from 2008-08-20T15:32:14
Long time Icarus Project organizer, open source computer software architect, and graduate doctoral student Jeffrey Goins discusses his psychiatric experiences and insights from the world of technol...
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Cognitive Therapy: Ron Unger from 2008-07-16T15:24:14
Oregon Mental health counselor Ron Unger discusses his experiences with altered states of consciousness, and how cognitive behavioral therapy can be a useful alternative to medication and mainstrea...
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Spiritual Emergence: David Lukoff from 2008-07-02T16:11:27
Clinical Psychologist David Lukoff talks about his madness experience and the spiritual transformation it triggered. David went on to become a leading figure in the field of Transpersonal Psycholog...
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Evolving Minds: Mel Gunasena from 2008-06-25T15:19:58
UK video activist and writer Mel Gunasena on her mystical experiences and forced psychiatric hospitalization. Mel is the director of Evolving Minds, a documentary film about spiritual experiences a...
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Misled Youth: Michael Gennarelli from 2008-06-04T15:17:06
Community organizer and writer Michael Gennarelli talks about his 8 years of psychiatric treatment as a child and his stays at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Michael reads his poetry about the...
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Buddhist Meditation and Schizophrenia: Ed Knight from 2008-05-28T15:14:42
Recovery leader and survivor Ed Knight talks about Zen, Insight, and Christian meditation and"schizophrenia,"including discrimination against people with psychiatric labels at meditation retreats, ...
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Wounded States of Consciousness: Bogna Szymkiewicz from 2008-05-21T22:12:07
Warsaw Poland psychologist Bogna Szymkiewicz discusses"wounded states of consciousness,"what the mind and body do when trauma is activated, as well as how trauma affects our relationships and what ...
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Black Mental Health UK: Philip Morgan from 2008-05-14T15:09:02
Blacks in the UK are much more likely than white people to be locked up, put on drugs, and mistreated in the mental health system. Social scientist Philip Morgan of London's Tower Hamlets African...
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Genetic Predispositions? Jay Joseph from 2008-05-07T15:05:10
Clinical psychologist Jay Joseph details medical science's 30-year failed quest to find any link between genetics and diagnoses of mental disorders, and debunks widely held beliefs in the psychiatr...
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Psych Diagnosis Bias: Paula Caplan from 2008-04-30T15:01:38
Harvard University faculty Paula Caplan, author ofThey Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normaland editor of Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis. Paula w...
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Process Oriented Counseling with Joe Goodbread from 2008-04-23T21:56:54
Counselor and researcher Joe Goodbread discusses his more than 25 years experience working with madness and extreme states using Process Oriented Psychology, an innovative approach based in the ...
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Forced Drugging and Treatment with Journalist Philip Dawdy from 2008-04-10T21:48:21
Award-winning journalist Philip Dawdy, formerly a writer with the Seattle Weekly newspaper, discusses how forced psychiatric treatment and drugging are ineffective responses to violent crime and th...
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Environmental Insanity w/ Author Derrick Jensen from 2008-03-26T21:24:36
Visionary writer and thought-provoking environmentalist Derrick Jensen talks about the human-caused ecological collapse of the natural world, family trauma, technological brainwashing, indigenous s...
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Comfortably Numb: Author Charles Barber from 2008-03-19T21:19:53
Author Charles Barber talks about his new bookComfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, a history of the rise of psychiatric drug marketing from"mother's little helper"to to...
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South Africa Activism: Moosa Salie from 2008-03-12T16:09:42
Capetown South Africa survivor activist Moosa Salie talks about mental health organizing in Africa and beyond, and work to establish the Ubuntu Center for alternative support. Check out Moosa's b...
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Survivor Songwriter Vara Adams from 2008-01-31T00:07:21
Vara Adams survived forced hospitalization, drugging, and multiple electroshocks as a teen in Melbourne Australia. She went on to become a heavy metal-influenced songwriter about her experiences as...
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Rights Organizing: Celia Brown from 2008-01-24T00:05:14
Psychiatric abuse survivor and human rights activist Celia Brown discusses working for change in the mental health system, including her ownn experiences and creating"supported decision-making"for ...
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Sexual Abuse: Searching for Angela Shelton from 2007-12-27T00:02:58
Angela Shelton is an award-winning Hollywood actress and filmmaker, who traveled across the US meeting other women named Angela Shelton and discovering how widespread sexual abuse is in our society...
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Colonialism and Native Mental Health: Stella Montour from 2007-12-20T00:00:55
First Nations Ojibway activist and psychiatric abuse survivor Stella Montour of Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada talks about colonialism and racism against native people, how they affect mental health, ...
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Our Crazy Economy: Catherine Austin Fitts from 2007-12-12T23:59
A money insider's view of how crazy and corrupt our US-led world economic system really is, including drug money, mlitary spending, and the housing crisis. Catherine Austin Fitts was Assistant Se...
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Psychiatric Abuse: Activist Angela Bischoff and Shock Survivor Wayne Lax from 2007-12-05T23:57:13
Two interviews on psychiatric abuse: Angela Bischoff's husband Tooker Gomberg died in a suicide after taking anti-depressants; both were prominent Toronto environmental and peace activists. Wayne L...
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Portland Police Training w/ Julie Diamond from 2007-11-28T23:55:10
After James Chasse, a man with a schizophrenia diagnosis, was killed by Portland police in 2006, reforms included improved police training. Julie Diamond discusses efforts to help teach police bett...
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America’s Depression Epidemic: Bruce Levine from 2007-11-21T23:53:05
Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses his new bookSurviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy, an insightful exploration...
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Human Rights in Argentina with Mental Disability Rights International from 2007-11-14T15:51:14
Latin America Program Director Alison Hillman of Mental Disability Rights International talks with Will Hall in Buenos Aires Argentina about the campaign to reform the country's brutally abusive me...
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Virginia Tech Icarus Project Dialog from 2007-10-31T15:49:21
Icarus Project organizers Madigan Shive, Molly Sprengelmeyer, Will Hall, Neil Gong, and Sascha DuBrul visit Virginia Tech, site of the violent tragedy, and discuss campus mental health issues with ...
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Youth Suicide with Leah Harris from 2007-10-24T22:47:40
Psychiatric survivor and leading advocate Leah Harris reads her powerful poem"I Was a Teenage Mental Patient"and discusses how communities can work to prevent suicide by looking beyong mainstream a...
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Men and Trauma with Oryx Cohen from 2007-10-07T22:46
Freedom Center co-founder Oryx Cohen talks about how men can recover and heal from trauma, and creating a trauma-informed mental health system. Oryx also discusses the creation of the new Recovery ...
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What Is Psychosis? Matthew Morsey from 2007-09-19T22:42:14
Psychotherapist and MindFreedom activist Matthew Morrissey discusses the deeper meaning of"psychosis,"his own healing journey, and his past work at a unique center that focused on facilitating reco...
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Jamaican Dub Music and Recovery: John Rice from 2007-09-19T15:44:05
Phenix City, Alabama mobile DJ John Rice describes how he spent decades on neuroleptic drugs after being dragged into the psych system in the Deep South, and his discovery of Jamaican dub reggae mu...
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Patricia Deegan: Personal Medicine from 2007-09-12T22:40:07
Longtime consumer-survivor movement leader and pioneer in recovery education Pat Deegan talks about her story surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis, empowered medication decisions, and her developmen...
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Medical Cannabis w/ Dr. Mitch Earleywine from 2007-08-29T22:37:24
Psychologist and advocate with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Marijuana Policy project, Mitch Earleywine discusses medical marijuana, dangers and uses, a...
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Escape from Psychiatry Bed Push from 2007-08-22T15:28:06
July 2007: psychiatric survivors from the Freedom Center in Northampton MA pushed a bed across town and held a rally and speakout against local mental health mistreatment, including at Cooley Dicki...
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Pharma Corruption: Evelyn Pringle from 2007-08-15T15:26:38
Independent journalist Evelyn Pringle writes extensively on Big Pharma corruption and the role the mainstream media plays in covering it up. Listen
Hurricane Katrina + Mental Health from 2007-08-09T04:22:16
Hurricane Katrina special, with Aby Adams and Will Hall of the Freedom Center discussing their trip to New Orleans to do volunteer relief work, and the questionable role of the mainstream mental he...
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Manufacturing Depression: Gary Greenberg from 2007-08-08T22:25:05
Gary Greenberg, journalist for Harpers, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and others, discusses being a subject in a clinical drug trial, how depression is manipulated by advertising and Big Pharma, an...
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Lamictal Near Fatality + Bipolar Knitting from 2007-08-01T15:23:32
Two topics: A Northampton, Massachusetts woman talks about her near-fatal drug reaction to an off label prescription of Lamictal, and Brooklynne Michelle discusses the Mosh Knit podcast -- about kn...
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Bonfire Madigan: Visionary Musician from 2007-07-25T18:17:46
Riot Grrl instigator Bonfire Madigan Shive talks about her family, the mental health system, living outside the mainstream and her creative inspiration as a visionary musician. Listen
Madness Survivor Voices with Gail Hornstein from 2007-07-18T18:02:32
Longtime Freedom Center ally Mt. Holyoke College Professor Gail Hornstein discusses first-person accounts of people who have lived through madness, and previews her upcoming bookAgnes's Jacket<...
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Globalization of Psychiatry: Philip Thomas Post-Psychiatry from 2007-07-11T22:21:22
UK psychiatrist Philip Thomas discusses the globalization of psychiatry and pharmaceutical company expansion world-wide, including how community empowerment and traditional ways of care can challen...
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John Horgan:“The Undiscovered Mind” from 2007-07-04T22:18:43
John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American, Discover, and the New York Times, talks about neuroscience, genetics, the placebo effect psychedelic drugs, and more.
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“Madness of George W Bush”w/ Paul Levy from 2007-06-27T15:16:42
Paul Levy, who went through psych hospitalizations as part of a spiritual emergence process and became a Buddhist teacher, discusses his bookThe Madness Of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our C...
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Rocky Caravelli: Treating Addiction with Psychedelic Ibogaine from 2007-06-20T22:14:43
Rocky Caravelli talks about his recovery from 25 years of methamphetamine and heroin addition and a bipolar diagnosis through treatment with Ibogaine, a visionary plant medicine from indigenous peo...
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Chaya Grossberg: Madness Spirituality from 2007-06-06T22:12:37
Long time Freedom Center organizer Chaya Grossberg talks about her experiences with madness, medications, her explorations of spirituality, being a client at Windhorse Associates, and how her heali...
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Richard DeGrandpre: Cult of Pharmacology from 2007-06-06T22:10:36
Richard DeGrandpre, former editor of Adbusters magazine and author ofRitalin Nation, discusses his new book,The Cult of Pharmacology, and how the popular conception of"addiction"b...
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Keely Malone: Active Bystandership from 2007-05-30T22:07:47
Keely Malone, organizer with Freedom Center, and Arise for Social Justice, talks about her work with Quabbin Mediation training people in"Active Bystandership,"teaching how to not passively witness...
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Philip Dawdy: Furious Seasons Blog from 2007-05-27T09:39:57
Award winning journalist Philip Dawdy, former Seattle Weekly writer, discusses his research on pharmaceutical companies and mental heath. Philip is the writer of the excellent blog Furious Seasons....
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Child Lockup / Holocaust / Vikki Gilbert from 2007-05-23T16:57:48
17 year old Sonia Peterson speaks with great insight about being locked up and forced to take drugs at age 12 and living with a bipolar diagnosis. Plus a short documentaty produced by Darbey Penney...
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Krista MacKinnon: Family Advocacy from 2007-05-16T16:54:58
Psychiatric Survivor Krista MacKinnon talks about her experiences with extreme states and spirituality, and her current work as a family advocate with Toronto, Canada's Family Outreach and Response...
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Pat Bracken: Post-Psychiatry, PTSD&Community Development from 2007-05-09T09:51:48
Dr. Pat Bracken, Irish psychiatrist, philosopher and co-author of the bookPost-Psychiatry: Mental Health in a Post-Modern World, discusses community development as an alternative to indivi...
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Mina: Madness&Mysticism: Portland Icarus Project from 2007-04-14T16:48:50
Mina, a main organizer with the Portand Icarus Project, discusses her experiences diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder schizophrenia - bipolar type, coming off meds, homelessness, mysticism, and...
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Ed Knight: Recovery and Transformation from 2007-04-14T09:46:07
Ed Knight, schizophrenia and homelessness survivor, has become one of the leading advocates of a recovery-based approach in mental health, and is one of the main organizers of the consumer-survivor...
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Peter Stastny: Dissident Psychiatrist from 2007-04-11T09:42:04
Psychiatrist Peter Stastny talks about his decades-long work as an anti-psychiatrist psychiatrist, problems with the hospital system and medications, and the international movement to create altern...
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International Network Towards Alternatives and Recovery–INTAR from 2007-03-21T09:37
INTAR -- the International Network Towards Alternatives and Recovery -- had a 2005 gathering of people from around the world working on ways to help people with schizophrenia, bipolar and other dia...
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Restorative Justice w/ Rockdove Collective from 2007-03-14T09:34:20
Danielle, who works with a New York City policy NGO and is part of the activist Rockdove Collective, discusses the international Restorative Justice movement, creating effective mediation and commu...
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Michael Perlin: International Mental Health Rights from 2007-02-14T09:32:25
Leading legal scholar Michael Perlin discusses psychiatric rights around the world and the political uses of forced treatment, at the 2006 NARPA conference. Listen
Police Violence: Jim Chasse, Portland Oregon from 2007-02-07T09:30:12
Portland Oregon police were exonerated after they beat and killed without provocation or cause Jim Chasse, a man labeled with schizophrenia. Listen
Zyprexa Memos Scandal: Update from 2007-01-17T09:28:21
Zyprexa manufacturer Eli-Lilly covered up criminal conduct and drug risks, leaked documents show, and is using a court gag order to keep survivor activists, including Freedom Center organizer Will ...
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Kalle Lasn: Adbusters Founder from 2006-12-15T09:26:30
Culture jammer and anti-consumerist publisher of Adbusters magazine Kalle Lasn talks about the mental environment, brands, organizing for change and how toxic culture causes emotional distress.
Sex Work w/ Caty Simon and Maryse from 2006-12-06T09:24:05
Sex workers Caty Simon and Maryse discuss social standards of normal and acceptable sexuality and how it affects mental wellbeing, from the point of view of sex workers rights. Listen
Voyce Hendrix: Inside Soteria House from 2006-12-06T09:17:20
Inside Soteria House with Voyce Hendrix, original clinical director who worked closely with Loren Mosher. Soteria House was a non-medication, non-diagnostic label and voluntary residence treating s...
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Poet Shaman Eddie Bartok-Baratta / Samana from 2006-11-09T06:49:23
Visionary writer, musician, and sculptor Eddie Bartok-Baratta performs his powerful poetry, plays flute, and discusses his amazing life, trauma and violence, and his creativity. Listen
Prescription Suicide? Documentary w/ Director Robert Manciero from 2006-11-02T06:47:24
A harrowing film of six families devastated by the dangerous violence-causing effects of anti-depressant drugs. Listen
Julie Spooner: Urban Shamanism from 2006-10-18T18:44:39
Urban Shamanism with Julie Spooner, licensed psychologist from Brooklyn New York. Julie discusses a spiritual healing approach to madness and psychosis, including journeying through visionary state...
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Robert Whitaker: Violence and Madness from 2006-10-11T18:38:30
Violence and Madness with Robert Whitaker, Pulitzer-nominated author of "Mad In America," discussing the role of psychiatric drugs in causing violence, the history of coercive psychiatric treatment...
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Bruce Levine: “Commonsense Rebellion” from 2006-10-04T06:37:11
Commonsense Rebellion with Bruce Levine, dissident psychologist and author of Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy, discusses the s...
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Ruta Mazelis: Cutting Edge Self Injury from 2006-09-27T06:34:12
Self-injury and cutting with Ruta Mazelis, psychiatric abuse survivor and editor for 17+ years of the acclaimed newsletter "The Cutting Edge". Cutting, burning, head banging and other self-harm are...
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Kate Bornstein: “Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide” from 2006-09-20T04:34:35
Transsexual writer and activist Kate Bornstein on her book Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. Kate overturns the orthodox either-or labels of male /...
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Delphine Brody: Policy Advocacy from 2006-09-13T06:27:40
Delphine Brody is a psych survivor and advocate with the California Network of Mental Health Clients who has years of experience working for substantial policy change on the local, state, and natio...
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