Love Is a Skill | Laura-Marie & Jacks McNamara | Madness Radio
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 way of...
View ArticleMad Conversations | Erick Fabris | Madness Radio
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 Fabris is...
View ArticlePsychedelic Therapy Abuse: Ending the Silence | Will Hall | Madness Radio
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 Change...
View ArticleConsent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness Radio
Read 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...
View ArticleFlight From Trauma | Paris Williams | Madness Radio
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 talk...
View ArticleAbolish Psy? | Craig Newnes | Madness Radio
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 Newnes...
View ArticleA Ten Day Voyage | R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook | Madness Radio
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):...
View ArticleCrazy or Religious? | Alison Smith | Madness Radio
Does 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...
View ArticlePhilosophy of Madness | Justin Garson | Madness Radio
Is 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...
View ArticleEscaped Lunatic | Irit Shimrat | Madness Radio
Legendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-founder of the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance, Irit...
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