Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health explores 'madness' from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, featuring survivors, authors, advocates, professionals, and artists.
Hosted by Will Hall, with guest co-hosts Jacks McNamara and Jessica Gallinger, Madness Radio launched in 2005 on Valley Free Radio and aired more than 200 shows since then. We've been broadcast on KBOO in Oregon, syndicated on other stations through Pacifica, and currenrly podcasting on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Pandora, and Google Play. More info on our About page.
Check out the Madness Radio book! Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness gathers edited show interviews and additional content, and is available in print and as a free download.
Madness Radio is an affiliate of Mad In America Radio!
Check out www.madinamerica.com. Theme music courtesy Bonfire Madigan. Thanks to past Madness Radio Producers Jenka Soderberg, Nina Packebush, Leah Harris and Jeremy Lanzman. And thanks to our 190+ Madness Radio Kickstarter donors for supporting the show!
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Escape from Psychiatry Bed Push
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.
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Pharma Corruption: Evelyn Pringle
Independent journalist Evelyn Pringle writes extensively on Big Pharma corruption and the role the mainstream media plays in covering it up.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:57 — 48.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Big Pharma
Hurricane Katrina + Mental Health
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:01 — 42.1MB)
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- Show topics:
- Community
- Healing Trauma
Manufacturing Depression: Gary Greenberg
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:47 — 47.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Big Pharma
- Depression
Lamictal Near Fatality + Bipolar Knitting
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.
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Bonfire Madigan: Visionary Musician
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:15 — 47.0MB)
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- Show topics:
- Activism
- Art
- Music
- Personal Stories
- Poetry
Madness Survivor Voices with Gail Hornstein
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:29 — 49.0MB)
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Globalization of Psychiatry: Philip Thomas Post-Psychiatry
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:01 — 46.8MB)
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- Show topics:
- Big Pharma
- Books
- Community
John Horgan: “The Undiscovered Mind”
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
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:59 — 52.2MB)
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- Show topics:
- Books
- Drugs
- Mad Science
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Video
“Madness of George W Bush” w/ Paul Levy
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.
http://www.awakeninthedream.com
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:10 — 46.0MB)
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- Show topics:
- Books
- Spirituality
Rocky Caravelli: Treating Addiction with Psychedelic Ibogaine
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.
http://www.awakeninginthedream.com
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:12 — 65.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Addiction
- Alternatives
Chaya Grossberg: Madness Spirituality
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:56 — 70.0MB)
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- Show topics:
- Spirituality
Richard DeGrandpre: Cult of Pharmacology
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:35 — 76.4MB)
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Keely Malone: Active Bystandership
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.
http://www.quabbinmediation.org/html/tba.html
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:36 — 72.3MB)
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Philip Dawdy: Furious Seasons Blog
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:50 — 79.7MB)
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