Art


Madness Radio: Art and Schizophrenia Louis Sass

First Aired 6-30-2009    Duration: 53:50

Does modern art, such as Artaud, Beckett, and Duchamp, parallel the mad frames of mind that get labeled "schizophrenia?" Is extreme sensitivity and inner self-consciousness behind artistic innovation and breaks with reality? Rutgers University psychologist Louis Sass, author of Madness And Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, discusses art as an insight into the subjective inner world of madness. lsass@rci.rutgers.edu

Madness Radio: Lamictal Near Fatality + Bipolar Knitting

First Aired 8-1-2007    Duration: 33:58

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.

Madness Radio: Poet Shaman Eddie Bartok-Baratta

First Aired 11-9-2006    Duration: 55:22

Visionary writer, musician, and sculptor Eddie Bartok-Baratta performs his powerful poetry, plays flute, and discusses his amazing life, trauma and violence, and his creativity.

Madness Radio: Darby Penney Willard Hospital Suitcase Exhibit

First Aired 5-4-2006    Duration: 46:43

Leading survivor advocate Darby Penney on the exhibit created from suitcases found in the attic of the old Willard State Hospital asylum in New York, illustrating the forgotten lives of patients there. www.suitcaseexhibit.org/