Madness Radio

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, 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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Forced Drugging in Northampton MA: Jim Gottstein, Lee LePoutre

First Aired 02-01-2006 | Add comment

Louis Lee LePouttre, forced to take psych drugs as an outpatient in Northampton discusses his legal situation with Jim Gottstein of PsychRights. Louis, who has no history of violence, objects to drugging on religious and health grounds. When he fails to show up for appointments, police drag him to the hospital and he is forcibly injected under a “Rogers Order.” Louis is a client of ServiceNet, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Parkview, and the Department of Mental Health. He now has diabetes, a Zyprexa side effect.

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Sherry Mead: Peer Run Crisis Services

First Aired 01-25-2006 | Add comment

Recovery leader Sherry Mead discusses how peer-run crisis alternatives are leading the way to a transformed mental health system.

http://www.mentalhealthpeers.com

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Laurie Ahern: Mental Disability Rights International

First Aired 01-25-2006 | Add comment

Laurie Ahern, Associate Director of Mental Disability Rights International, on advocacy efforts to end human rights abuses in psychiatric facilities in Turkey, Romania, Paraguay, Kosovo, and world-wide.

Check out their website at http://www.mdri.org

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Peter Bullimore: Recovery from Voices, Paranoia Abuse

First Aired 12-24-2005 | 3 comments | Add comment

Peter Bullimore, of England’s Hearing Voices Network, on his experiences with madness diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, including violence and extreme deterioration.

Peter discusses sexual abuse and how he worked with his voices to recover and become one of the world’s leading psychiatric survivor activists. He also tells the story of how he got the Paranoia Network of support groups started.

http://www.psychminded.co.uk/news/news2005/sept05/recoveryposition.htm

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Evolving Minds: UK Mental Health Activism

First Aired 12-17-2005 | Add comment

Amy Sanderson, Rufus May, and Andrew Wood discuss Evolving Minds, a visionary public forum and activist group challenging traditional mental health care in England, including the 2005 cross-country Bed Push protest against coercive psychiatry.

http://evolving-minds.co.uk
http://www.bedpush.com

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Show topics:
Activism
International

Tim Wise: Psychology Of Racism

First Aired 11-23-2005 | Add comment

Tim Wise, internationally recognized writer and activist, on racism, white privilege, and the psychology of discrimination.

http://www.timwise.org

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Show topics:
Race

Sharon Wise: Restraints and Seclusion

First Aired 11-09-2005 | Add comment

Sharon Wise, psychiatric survivor activist on her story as a psychiatric survivor and organizing efforts to end “restraints and seclusion,” euphemisms for shackling and solitary confinement.

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Paul Levy: Spiritual Emergence

First Aired 11-06-2005 | 5 comments | Add comment

Paul Levy, counselor, teacher, and coordinator of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center in Portland, Oregon, speaking on his spiritual emergence from psychosis to mystical awakening.

Also check out Paul’s website and writing at http://www.awakeninthedream.com

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Show topics:
Spirituality

Madness Radio Poetry Special

First Aired 10-19-2005 | Add comment

Poetry special with psychiatric survivors Carey Lamprecht, Ashley McNamara, Oryx Cohen, Chaya Grossberg, Ellen Hayes, and Teddy Peterson.

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Show topics:
Art
Poetry

Ashley McNamara: Icarus Project

First Aired 09-13-2005 | 1 comment | Add comment

Ashley McNamara, co-founder of the Icarus Project, discusses her struggles with experiences diagnosed as bipolar disorder, and her work organizing the Icarus Project, an alternative support network for people who challenge the medical and disease understanding of madness. Ashley also reads from her poetry and journal.

http://www.ashley-mcnamara.net

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Show topics:
Alternatives
Poetry

Gail Hornstein: Psychotherapy for Psychosis

First Aired 08-22-2005 | Add comment

Gail Hornstein, Mt. Holyoke Professor and author of biography of Frieda Fromm-Reichman, on psychiatric patient first-person narratives and psychotherapy for schizophrenia and psychosis without medications.