Madness Radio Podcast
1) Compassionate Therapy | Michael Montgomery | Madness Radio
Can psychotherapy work against the mainstream system? What does it take to be truly compassionate as a professional? And what are the downsides of promising alternatives such as Open Dialogue? Michael...Show More
2) Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio
Is “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 1...Show More
3) Valley Free Radio Anniversary | Will Hall | Madness Radio
Will 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, dedicate...Show More
4) Mad Camp 2024 | Jessica Gallinger | Madness Radio
Mad 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 attende...Show More
5) Sex Drugs Harm Reduction | Caty Simon
How 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-incom...Show More
6) Escaped 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 ed...Show More
7) Visionary Ecology | Steven Morgan | Madness Radio
Do 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 psychosi...Show More
8) Electoconvulsive Therapy Survey | John Read | Madness Radio
Please share widely! Survey on electroconvulsive therapy – electroshock therapy – for patients, family, and friends. John Read, survey researcher and professor at University of East London, is intervi...Show More
9) Grand Rounds UCSF Psychiatry – Will Hall – Madness Radio
Will 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 Practic...Show More
10) Philosophy 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 th...Show More