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 150 shows since then. We're heard on KBOO in Oregon (on pause at the moment!), have been syndicated on other stations through Pacifica, and currenrly podcasting on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes and Google Play. Check our About page.
Madness Radio Producer is Jenka Soderberg. Thanks to past Producers Nina Packebush, Leah Harris and Jeremy Lanzman.
Madness Radio is now an affiliate of Mad In America Radio!
Check out www.madinamerica.com.
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America’s Depression Epidemic: Bruce Levine
Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine discusses his new book Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy, an insightful exploration of the social and political causes of depression and how to heal by rebuilding communities.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:51 — 50.3MB)
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- Show topics:
- Alternatives
- Big Pharma
- Social Justice & War
Human Rights in Argentina with Mental Disability Rights International
Latin America Program Director Alison Hillman of Mental Disability Rights International talks with Will Hall in Buenos Aires Argentina about the campaign to reform the country’s brutally abusive mental health system, and the work she and Will have been doing with the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales to support the emergence of the user/survivor movement.
http://www.mdri.org
http://www.cels.org.ar
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:38 — 45.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Activism
- International
- System Reforms
Virginia Tech Icarus Project Dialog
Icarus Project organizers Madigan Shive, Molly Sprengelmeyer, Will Hall, Neil Gong, and Sascha DuBrul visit Virginia Tech, site of the violent tragedy, and discuss campus mental health issues with students.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:36 — 47.3MB)
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Youth Suicide with Leah Harris
Psychiatric survivor and leading advocate Leah Harris reads her powerful poem “I Was a Teenage Mental Patient” and discusses how communities can work to prevent suicide by looking beyong mainstream approaches and rethinking our alienating school system.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:36 — 47.3MB)
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- Show topics:
- Activism
- Children
- Personal Stories
- Poetry
- Suicide
Men and Trauma with Oryx Cohen
Freedom Center co-founder Oryx Cohen talks about how men can recover and heal from trauma, and creating a trauma-informed mental health system. Oryx also discusses the creation of the new Recovery Learning Community in Western MA.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:22 — 48.0MB)
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- Show topics:
- Alternatives
- Healing Trauma
- Personal Stories
Jamaican Dub Music and Recovery: John Rice
Phenix City, Alabama mobile DJ John Rice describes how he spent decades on neuroleptic drugs after being dragged into the psych system in the Deep South, and his discovery of Jamaican dub reggae music as a pathway to recovery and spiritual connection. An amazing interview.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:50 — 48.4MB)
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- Show topics:
- Alternatives
- Music
- Personal Stories
What Is Psychosis? Matthew Morsey
Psychotherapist and MindFreedom activist Matthew Morsey discusses the deeper meaning of “psychosis,” his own healing journey, and his past work at a unique center that focused on facilitating recovery from what are classified as “major mental disorders.”
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:55 — 50.3MB)
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- Show topics:
- Alternatives
- Personal Stories
Patricia Deegan: Personal Medicine
Longtime consumer-survivor movement leader and pioneer in recovery education Pat Deegan talks about her story surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis, empowered medication decisions, and her development of innovative assisstive technology.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:50 — 52.1MB)
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- Show topics:
- Alternatives
- Personal Stories
- System Reforms
Medical Cannabis w/ Dr. Mitch Earleywine
Psychologist and advocate with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Marijuana Policy project, Mitch Earleywine discusses medical marijuana, dangers and uses, and the relationship between marijuana and psychosis.
NORML http://www.norml.org
the Norml podcast http://www.normlaudiostash.com
the Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:54 — 51.2MB)
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Escape from Psychiatry Bed Push
July 2007: psychiatric survivors from the Freedom Center in Northampton MA pushed a bed across town and held a rally and speakout against local mental health mistreatment, including at Cooley Dickinson Hospital and ServiceNet. With activists Molly Hurter, Keeley Malone, Chaya Grossberg, Oryx Cohen, Amy Bookbinder, and Abigail Adams.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:19 — 50.7MB)
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Pharma Corruption: Evelyn Pringle
Independent journalist Evelyn Pringle writes extensively on Big Pharma corruption and the role the mainstream media plays in covering it up.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:57 — 48.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Big Pharma
Hurricane Katrina + Mental Health
Hurricane Katrina special, with Aby Adams and Will Hall of the Freedom Center discussing their trip to New Orleans to do volunteer relief work, and the questionable role of the mainstream mental health industry in recovery efforts.
Check out their trip report on the Freedom Center News page.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:01 — 42.1MB)
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- Show topics:
- Community
- Healing Trauma
Manufacturing Depression: Gary Greenberg
Gary Greenberg, journalist for Harpers, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and others, discusses being a subject in a clinical drug trial, how depression is manipulated by advertising and Big Pharma, and the social medicalizing of experience.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:47 — 47.5MB)
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- Show topics:
- Big Pharma
- Depression
Lamictal Near Fatality + Bipolar Knitting
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:58 — 31.2MB)
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Bonfire Madigan: Visionary Musician
Riot Grrl instigator Bonfire Madigan Shive talks about her family, the mental health system, living outside the mainstream and her creative inspiration as a visionary musician.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:15 — 47.0MB)
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- Show topics:
- Activism
- Art
- Music
- Personal Stories
- Poetry
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