Sinopse
Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health
Episódios
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Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio
22/08/2025 Duração: 01h21minIs “schizophrenia” a broken brain — or shamanic journeying to ancestral dimensions? Is being “out of touch with reality” actually visions of deeper truth and racial healing? Dick Russell – author of 17 books including on the JFK assassination and a biography of Jungian James Hillman – followed doctors’ advice when his son Franklin was […] The post Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Valley Free Radio Anniversary | Will Hall | Madness Radio
10/08/2025 Duração: 08minWill Hall greets community FM station Valley Free Radio for its 20 years anniversary celebration! Founders Will and Ed Russell sparked the volunteer-run station in Northampton, Massachusetts, dedicated to peace, ecology, and social justice — and home to Madness Radio. Congrats on 20 years of amazing volunteer run community programming and an antidote to our […] The post Valley Free Radio Anniversary | Will Hall | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Mad Camp 2024 | Jessica Gallinger | Madness Radio
30/07/2025 Duração: 43minMad Camp is an annual summer camp for mad people in Northern California – with people joining from all over the world! What’s it all about? Madness Radio producer and co-host Jessica Gallinger attended Mad Camp 2024 and interviewed Mad Campers about their experience, she’s joined by Mad Camp co-founders Dina Tyler and Will Hall […] The post Mad Camp 2024 | Jessica Gallinger | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Sex Drugs Harm Reduction | Caty Simon
21/01/2025 Duração: 01h10minHow do decriminalizing drug use and sex work advance mad liberation? What lessons can psychiatric survivors learn from the harm reduction movement? Caty Simon’s activist leadership spans the low-income rights, psychiatric survivors, sex worker, and drug users union movements, and she was a key organizer at Freedom Center in Western Massachusetts. Caty is on the […] The post Sex Drugs Harm Reduction | Caty Simon first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Escaped Lunatic | Irit Shimrat | Madness Radio
07/11/2024 Duração: 01h05minLegendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-founder of the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance, Irit edited the Canadian magazine Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized and wrote Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement, bringing together the stories of many leading activists. Irit shares her […] The post Escaped Lunatic | Irit Shimrat | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Visionary Ecology | Steven Morgan | Madness Radio
05/08/2024 Duração: 01h18minDo grieving goats lick psychedelic lichen? Altered states are part of nature, used by plants and animals for survival(!). How does ecology reveal the evolutionary – and spiritual – purpose of psychosis? Steven Morgan, psychiatric survivor and trainer in Intentional Peer Support, led the Another Way sanctuary and was project director for Soteria Vermont. Today […] The post Visionary Ecology | Steven Morgan | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Grand Rounds UCSF Psychiatry – Will Hall – Madness Radio
09/07/2024 Duração: 01h24minWill Hall’s June 2024 Grand Rounds talk at University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, titled “New Visions of Psychosis: Abolition as Clinical Best Practice.” Video here: https://youtu.be/adYrzmJ2w50?si=nwAQBM2F6oYmbShe transcript here. The post Grand Rounds UCSF Psychiatry – Will Hall – Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Philosophy of Madness | Justin Garson | Madness Radio
13/06/2024 Duração: 01h09minIs madness dysfunction and breakdown – or part of human evolution that helps us survive? Writers going back to Hippocrates saw madness as the organism’s way to cope with its environment, so why has this view almost disappeared today? Justin Garson, professor of philosophy at Hunter College and author of Madness: a Philosophical Exploration, joins […] The post Philosophy of Madness | Justin Garson | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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The End of the World | Will Hall | Madness Radio
08/04/2024 Duração: 21minWhat can R.D. Laing, madness, and Star Trek teach us about the end of the world – and saving it? Will Hall reads “Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet,” published on Mad In America March 14, 2024. The essay draws on the original series Star Trek episode City on the Edge of […] The post The End of the World | Will Hall | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Crazy or Religious? | Alison Smith | Madness Radio
01/02/2024 Duração: 01h14minDoes hearing God’s voice make you mentally ill? Will psychiatry help you cope with grief and rejection – or make things worse? After a distressing romantic breakup Alison Smith went to her college clinic for help – and was locked up, drugged, and labeled psychotic. Positive and mysterious voices – including visions of Jesus – […] The post Crazy or Religious? | Alison Smith | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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UCSF Grand Rounds | Dina Tyler | Madness Radio
07/12/2023 Duração: 01h12minDina Tyler’s FANTASTIC, heartful, brilliant December 2023 Grand Rounds talk at UCSF Medical School, “Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives.” Also available as a video. (Transcript) (Slides from talk) www.dinatyler.com The post UCSF Grand Rounds | Dina Tyler | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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A Ten Day Voyage | R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook | Madness Radio
17/09/2023 Duração: 33minAudiobook 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://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RDLaingPoliticsOfExperienceLaingAudiobookFULL.mp3 Full book as chapters on this YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMya78GAdrpxtOjEayvMp1lC88ce21kUb Individual chapters as .mp3 (ctrl/rtclick to save as): http://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RDLaingPoliticsOfExperienceLaingAudiobookCh1.mp3 http://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RDLaingPoliticsOfExperienceLaingAudiobookCh2.mp3 http://www.madnessradio.net/audio-extra/RDLaingPoliticsOfExperienceLaingAudiobookCh3.mp3 […] The post A Ten Day Voyage | R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Abolition Is Disability Justice | Tina Minkowitz | Madness Radio
09/09/2023 Duração: 01h33minWhy are assault, kidnapping, and torture legal – when you have a psychiatric diagnosis? Is psychiatry’s legal double standard unjust in the same way a double standard would be for being female or Black? Does disability justice mean psychiatric abolition – and reparations? Tina Minkowitz, survivor of psychiatric institutionalization and a human rights lawyer, helped […] The post Abolition Is Disability Justice | Tina Minkowitz | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Abolish Psy? | Craig Newnes | Madness Radio
05/07/2023 Duração: 01h08minAre 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 Newnes is a Jewish dad, grandad, musician, writer, and former director of one of the UK’s largest NHS Psychological Therapies Directorates, and […] The post Abolish Psy? | Craig Newnes | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Flight From Trauma | Paris Williams | Madness Radio
11/05/2023 Duração: 01h27minHow 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 talk with Paris Williams, who has a PhD in clinical psychology and went through his own experience of extreme sates and madness. Paris […] The post Flight From Trauma | Paris Williams | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Rethinking Therapy | Will Hall and Ryan Hofrichter | Madness Radio
25/04/2023 Duração: 01h30minTherapist 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, psychiatric diagnosis harms, naming ethical and professional dilemmas, working outside of the mainstream mental health system, understanding emotional distress contextually, tragedy as potentially transformative, the psychiatric survivor […] The post Rethinking Therapy | Will Hall and Ryan Hofrichter | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Youth Leadership | Felicity Krueger & Oryx Cohen | Madness Radio
04/04/2023 Duração: 45minCan 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 mental health crisis? Felicity Krueger emerged out of trauma, anxiety, and the challenges of multi-racial adoption to become a leading teen advocate in Kentucky […] The post Youth Leadership | Felicity Krueger & Oryx Cohen | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Lyme And Dyskinesia | Monica Cassani | Madness Radio
09/03/2023 Duração: 01h05minAre 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 illness? Monica Cassani is a psychiatric survivor and early leader in internet support with the Beyond Meds – Everything Matters website and community. Monica’s struggle with chronic iatrogenic illness […] The post Lyme And Dyskinesia | Monica Cassani | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Consent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness Radio
28/02/2023 Duração: 01h55minRead this book! Can there ever be any justification for discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities? Is denying equality before the law based on a psychiatric diagnosis always unacceptable, unnecessary, and abusive? Journalist and community development activist Rob Wipond’s new book Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise […] The post Consent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.
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Abolish Psychiatry | Vesper Moore | Madness Radio
08/02/2023 Duração: 01h11minShould 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 psychiatric survivor movement; he was radicalized against psychiatry as a teen when his mother sought help and met medical violence instead. […] The post Abolish Psychiatry | Vesper Moore | Madness Radio first appeared on Madness Radio.