Madness Radio

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Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health

Episódios

  • Medical Cannabis w/ Dr. Mitch Earleywine

    29/08/2007

    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, and the relationship between marijuana and psychosis.   [Read more...]

  • Escape from Psychiatry Bed Push

    22/08/2007

    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 Dickinson Hospital and ServiceNet. With activists Molly Hurter, Keeley Malone, Chaya Grossberg, Oryx Cohen, Amy Bookbinder, and Abigail Adams.   [Read more...]

  • Pharma Corruption: Evelyn Pringle

    15/08/2007

    Independent journalist Evelyn Pringle writes extensively on Big Pharma corruption and the role the mainstream media plays in covering it up.   [Read more...]

  • Hurricane Katrina + Mental Health

    09/08/2007

    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 health industry in recovery efforts. Check out their trip report on the Freedom Center News page.   [Read more...]

  • Manufacturing Depression: Gary Greenberg

    08/08/2007

    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, and the social medicalizing of experience.   [Read more...]

  • Lamictal Near Fatality + Bipolar Knitting

    01/08/2007

    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 knitting and bipolar.   [Read more...]

  • Bonfire Madigan: Visionary Musician

    25/07/2007

    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.   [Read more...]

  • Madness Survivor Voices with Gail Hornstein

    18/07/2007

    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 book Agnes's Jacket.   [Read more...]

  • Globalization of Psychiatry: Philip Thomas Post-Psychiatry

    11/07/2007

    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 challenge western individualism based medical model of mental health. Check out Phil's book Post-Psychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World, and his essay "Challenging the Globalization of Psychiatry", both written with Irish psychiatrist Pat Bracken.   [Read more...]

  • John Horgan: “The Undiscovered Mind”

    04/07/2007

    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. John is the author of The Undiscovered Mind: How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation, Rational Mysticism, and The End of Science. He also hosts a video blog at http://www.bloggingheads.tv   [Read more...]

  • “Madness of George W Bush” w/ Paul Levy

    27/06/2007

    Paul Levy, who went through psych hospitalizations as part of a spiritual emergence process and became a Buddhist teacher, discusses his book The Madness Of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis.   [Read more...]

  • Rocky Caravelli: Treating Addiction with Psychedelic Ibogaine

    20/06/2007

    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 people in West Africa, and his work helping many others heal. Rocky is director of Ibogaine treatment center Awaken In The Dream house in San Francisco de Nayarit, Mexico.   [Read more...]

  • Chaya Grossberg: Madness Spirituality

    06/06/2007

    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 healing path has brought her to be a teacher of local yoga and writing classes.   [Read more...]

  • Richard DeGrandpre: Cult of Pharmacology

    06/06/2007

    Richard DeGrandpre, former editor of Adbusters magazine and author of Ritalin Nation, discusses his new book, The Cult of Pharmacology, and how the popular conception of "addiction" behind the War On Drugs is scientifically inaccurate: social context, learning, morality and meaning determine how drugs affect us, not simple addiction chemistry.   [Read more...]

  • Keely Malone: Active Bystandership

    30/05/2007

    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 harm such as bullying, violence, or crisis, but to become actively involved, and how this can change situations and make communities more responsible.   [Read more...]

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