Healing Veterans: Paula Caplan
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? Paula...
View ArticleBipolar Children: Sharna Olfman
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? Sharna...
View ArticleBeyond Biological Reductionism: Raymond Tallis
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...
View ArticleQueer Poetry Inbetweenland: Jacks McNamara
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 McNamara,...
View ArticleBenzodiazepine Recovery: Matt Samet
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 the...
View ArticleHealing Connection | Lauren Spiro
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...
View ArticlePsychotherapy for Schizophrenia | Bert Karon
In schizophrenia really an “incurable illness” — or a state of chronic terror? Are there ways for psychotherapy to reach people in different realities? And does Freudian psychoanalysis offer a humane...
View ArticleSpecial Messages | Tim Dreby | Madness Radio
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 — but...
View ArticleLincoln’s Depression | Joshua Wolf Shenk | Madness Radio
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? How...
View ArticleEvolution of Mind | Maxine Sheets-Johnstone | Madness Radio
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 Darwin...
View ArticleGeography of Madness | Frank Bures | Madness Radio
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...
View ArticleAudiobook: Coming Off Psychiatric Medications Harm Reduction Guide | Madness...
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,...
View ArticleLegacy of R.D. Laing | Michael Guy Thompson | Madness Radio
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...
View ArticleQueer Teen Pregnancy | Nina Packebush | Madness Radio
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 questions...
View ArticleSystems View of Life | Fritjof Capra | Madness Radio
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...
View ArticleJungian Therapy for Psychosis | George Mecouch | Madness Radio
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...
View ArticleOutside Mental Health Preface Audiobook | Will Hall | Madness Radio
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...
View ArticleR.D. Laing The Politics of Experience Ch. 1 Audiobook | Madness Radio
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....
View ArticleDecolonizing Early Psychosis | Rachel Jane Liebert | Madness Radio
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 supremacy?...
View ArticleBreathwork for Bipolar and Psychosis | Sean Blackwell | Madness Radio
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...
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