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Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health — 304 episodes
When Stopping Prescription Drugs Isn't Simple: Alicia Martin and the TaperMate Story
First-Person Knowledge and the Meanings of Madness: An Interview with Gail Hornstein
Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling
The West Doesn't Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh Bhugra
Go/No Go - How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Marianne Apostolides
Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen
Anthropology, Arctic Iceland and Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Conversation With Fiona Frenzen
Meeting Life Unmedicated: Aging, Protracted Withdrawal and Healing - A Conversation With Marsha Zaritsky
Faith, Culture, and Coercion: An Interview with Cultural Psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis
Kindling Our Inner Fire: A Residential Program Where Drug Tapering is the Norm
The Madness Pill: How Psychedelics and Stimulants Shaped Biological Psychiatry — An Interview with Justin Garson
Finding God and Leaving Psychiatry: An Interview With Kelsey Osgood
"Everybody Can Recover": Fighting Psychiatric Subjectivation and Helping Others Along the Way: An Interview with Prateeksha Sharma
The Fight for the Soul of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Linda Michaels
Examining Psychiatric Medication Tapering and Withdrawal: The Evolving Role of Pharmacists — A Conversation with Agnes Higgins and Cathal Cadogan
Spiritual Emergency and the Collective Work of Staying Alive: An Interview with Nisha Gupta
The Political Systems Driving Abuse in Psychiatry: An Interview with Human Rights Lawyer Alicia Ely Yamin
History, Eugenics, and an Inquiry into Mad Consciousness: A Conversation With Susanne Paola Antonetta
How Our Blindness to Context Harms Patients and Breaks Practitioners: A Conversation With Kamaldeep Bhui
UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 2 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton
UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton
Food First, Pharma Last - Part Two of our Interview with Chris Masterjohn
Mitochondria and Energetic Failures - A New Understanding of Antidepressant Withdrawal? An Interview with Chris Masterjohn
Why Critical Mental Health Knowledge Is Essential for Ethical Practice: An Interview with Jan DeFehr
ADHD Diagnoses, Examining the Psyche, Withdrawal and PSSD Risks, ECT Harms and More: Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions
Learning to Soar: A Conversation With Artist Kev G Mor
Antidepressant Withdrawal: Finding an Astronomical Perspective - A Conversation with Safa Askeri
Psychiatric Drugs: The Real World is Where the Harms Live
Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff
Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Democratic Socialism: A Conversation with Frank Gruba-McCallister
Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis
Therapy in the Age of Abandonment: A Conversation with Psychological Anthropologist Talia Weiner
How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter
Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A Conversation With Jaakko Seikkula
"I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal" A Conversation with Comedian Dex Carrington
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule
A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment
"Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands" Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy
Psychology's Small Stories and the Call of the Other: An Interview with David Goodman
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava
Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology
"Dad, Something's Not Right. I Need Help"- Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
Psychotherapy and Social Change: Mick Cooper on Counseling, Pluralism, and Progressive Politics
All Real Living Is Meeting - In Conversation With Brent Robbins - Part 2
All Real Living Is Meeting - In Conversation With Brent Robbins - Part 1
Kids Are Not The Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson
Peer Support and Resistance - Becky Brasfield's Vision for Mental Health Justice
Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy
The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora
One Person's Journey from Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright
We Should Listen to Our Emotional Pain: An interview with Paul Andrews
Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother
From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon
Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines- An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz
Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott
Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong
The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz
Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider
Madness, Utopia and Revolt: An Interview With Sasha Warren
Demedicalizing Depression: An Interview with Milutin Kostić
Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind - An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi
Context and Care vs Isolate and Control - An Interview with Arthur Kleinman
Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper
Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients - Swapnil Gupta
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? – Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
'It Was a Joint Effort'- Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister's Story to Life
What if Much of What you Thought you Knew About Mental Health was up for Debate?
The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History
The Making of a 'Madness' That Hides Our Monsters - An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley
A Playground for Predators-Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship
May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem
Branding Diseases: Ray Moynihan on How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions
How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis
Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy
Family Panel Discussion – Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Person in Crisis
Sacred Conversations: A Talk with Susan Swim and a Father Whose Daughter Found Healing
The Radical Politics of Madness-Micha Frazer-Carroll
Can Psychosocial Disability Decolonize Mental Health? A Conversation with Luis Arroyo and Justin Karter
Sarah Fay - Cured: A Memoir
Sharon Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte - Mental Health Podcasts: A Force for Good in a Contested Field
James Greenblatt - 'We Have a Neck' - The Links Between Body and Brain
Nandita Chaudhary - Challenging Western-Centric Child Psychology
Mia Berrin - Embodying Emotional Taboos: Musicians and Mental Health
David Edward Walker - Oppressive Mental Health Practices - For Native People, the Past is Present
Chris Bullard - The Sound Mind Festival
Chris van Tulleken - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food and Why Can't We Stop?
David Carmichael - The Antidepressant Safety Tour
Tanya Frank - Zig Zag Boy: My Family's Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare
Pata Suyemoto - Centering Racial Justice and Community in Mental Health Advocacy and Suicide Prevention
Camille Robcis - Uncovering Radical Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy in Postwar France
Erick Turner - Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: How Publication Bias Threatens Research Integrity and Public Health
Adam Urato - Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants and Pregnancy
Owen Whooley - Psychiatry's Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway's "Medication-Free" Hospital Survive?
Ten Years of Rocking the Boat - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
Changing Narratives - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
Art and Transformation - Creating Justice in Mental Health Care
David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy
Morgan Shields - Breaking Academia's Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry
Anders Sørensen - Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice
Justin Karter - Exploring the Fault Lines in Mental Health Discourse
Jim Flannery - Sorry It's Not Funny – Comedy, Hip-Hop and Activism
Diana Rose - Is Service-User Research Possible in Mental Health?
Jon Jureidini – Evidence-Based Medicine in a Post-Truth World
Liam MacGabhann, Martha Griffin, Harry Gijbels and Elaine Browne - The Launch of Mad in Ireland
Beverley Thomson – Antidepressed - Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
John Read and Jeffrey Masson - Biological Psychiatry and the Mass Murder of "Schizophrenics"
Kaori Wada - How Grief Became a Disorder and What This Means About Us
Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Kristina Marusic - Pollution's Mental Toll
Jessica Taylor - Pathologized Since Eve - Women, Trauma, and Sexy but Psycho
Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?
Tara Thiagarajan - Mental Wellbeing Among Internet-enabled Populations of the World
Bruce Cohen - The Failings of "Mental Health": How a Seemingly Benign Concept Might be Dangerous
Jennifer Barkin - New Tools to Support New Moms
Alice and Kenneth Thompson - Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh
Trans Lifeline - Naming Trans-Specific Harm in Mental Health
Nicholas Haslam - Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences
Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay - The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us
Sera Davidow - Trusting People as Experts of Themselves
Lynne Layton - The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture
Dana Becker - The Medicalization of Women's Suffering
Michael Hengartner – Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription
Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can't Pay Attention
Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society
For Life - Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs Premieres on Jan 15
Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back
Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia - Emotional CPR - Heart-Centered Peer Support
Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn - How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart
Renee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine
Giovanni Fava - A Different Psychiatry is Possible
Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?
Shira Collings - New Perspectives on Eating Disorders
Helena Hansen - Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry
Matcheri Keshavan and Raquelle Mesholam-Gately - Why Some Experts and Patients Want to Rename Schizophrenia
Jim van Os and Peter Groot - When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCTs Fall Short
Ursula Read - Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion
Michael Ungar - Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience
Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering
Marcela Ot'alora - MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility
Michelle Funk - WHO and the Sea Change in Mental Health
Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Post Withdrawal Experiences
Hannah Pickard - Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities
Katrina Michelle - Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing
Hannah Zeavin - Questioning the Moral Panic Around Teletherapy
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Exploring the Science
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health
Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?
Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment
Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives
Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research
Janice Haaken - Trauma and Mental Health in Social Movements
Howard Glasser - The Nurtured Heart Approach
Lucas Richert - Psychiatry and the Counterculture
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Setting the Scene
Trailer - Online Town Hall - Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Thomas Teo - Fascist Subjectivity and the Subhuman
Piers Gooding - Psychosocial Disability Rights and Digital Mental Health
Jennifer White - Rethinking Suicide Prevention
Tanya Luhrmann - How Culture Influences Voice Hearing
Adele Framer - Surviving Antidepressants
Natalie Campo - Can We Move Toward Mindful Medicine?
Kirk Schneider - Leading Psychology in Existential Times
Rhonda Speight - I Found My Lion's Roar - Combining Peer Support and Open Dialogue
Stuart Shipko - SSRI Withdrawal: Shooting the Odds
Jodi Aman - Anxiety, I'm So Done with You
Nikolas Rose - Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become
Jussi Valtonen - How to Know What We Don't Know
Claudia Gold - Embrace the Messiness!
Ian Tucker - Mental Health and Emotion in the Digital Age
Baylissa Frederick - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020
Jim Wright - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020
Angela Peacock - Medicating Normal
Awais Aftab - Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry
John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the Evidence From Clinical Trials Justify its Continued Use?
Scott Greenspan - Exercise for Youth Mental Health in the Lockdown
Dainius Pūras - Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care
Sunil Bhatia - When Psychology Speaks for You, Without You
Nicole Beurkens – What If This Pandemic Is the Best Thing to Happen to Children with Challenges?
MIA Town Hall 1 - Are We Living in the Most Dialogical Time Ever?
Sam Himelstein - The Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing on Adolescents
Ian Puppe - Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing
Mab Segrest - Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens
Paula Caplan - Listen to a Veteran
MIA Report - Medication-Free Treatment in Norway - A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage
Ian Parker - Psychology is Not What You Think
Beatrice Birch - Inner Fire and Soul Health
Laysha Ostrow - Live and Learn
Peter Statsny - Reimagining Psychiatry
Sarah Kamens and Peter Kinderman - Moving Mental Health Work Away From Diagnosis
David Joslin – Remedy Alpine, Giving Veterans the Power to Seek Personal Discovery
John Read - UK Esketamine Approval - Not so Fast
Wendy Dolin - Making Akathisia a Household Word
MIA Report - The Whistleblower and Penn - A Final Accounting of Study 352
Amanda Burrill - Self-Advocacy and Self-Belief – Escaping Psychiatric Drugs
Anthony Ryan Hatch - The Management of Captive Populations with Psychiatric Drugs
Mary Watkins - Opening Doors in the Borderlands
Peter Mayfield - Healing Youth with Nature and Connection
Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall - Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children
Psychological Support for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Celia Brown - On Human Rights and Surviving Race
Lindsay Church – Military Mental Health – From the Brink and the Journey to Recovery
Dorothy Dundas - Survivorship, Resistance, and Connection
Joseph Gone - When Healing Looks Like Justice
Steven C Hayes - A Liberated Mind
Jenny Freeman - Climate Change, Mental Health and Collective Action
IIPDW - Carina Håkansson and John Read
Peter Kinderman - Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Zhiying Ma - Recuperating the Social Person in China
Ben Furman - Understanding and Dealing With Adolescent Rage
Dan Hurd - One Pedal at a Time
Lillian Comas-Diaz - Addressing the Roots of Racial Trauma
Derek Blumke – The Mad in America Veterans Initiative
Craig Wiener - ADHD, A Return to Psychology
Pat Bracken - Toward a Critical Self-Reflective Psychiatry
Diana Kopua - Learning a Different Way
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 1
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2
Lucy Johnstone - The Creation of a Conceptual Alternative to the DSM
Lee Coleman - Breaking Out of the Circle - Creating a Non-violent Revolution
Felicity Thomas and Richard Byng - Poverty, Pathology and Pills
Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education
David Cohen - Mad Science, Psychiatric Coercion and the Therapeutic State
John Read - Fighting for the Meaning of Madness
Lee Coleman – The Insanity Defence, Storytelling on the Witness Stand
Jonathan Raskin - Constructing Alternatives to the DSM
Kelly Brogan - The Science and Pseudoscience of Women's Mental Health
Vance Trudeau - Antidepressant Exposure Across Generations
Lee Coleman - The Reign of Error
Mark Horowitz - Peer-Support Groups Were Right, Guidelines Were Wrong - Tapering Off Antidepressants
Gail Hornstein - First-Person Accounts of Madness and Global Mental Health
Alita Taylor - Open Dialogue - Making Meaning
Jim van Os - Towards Resilience and Possibilities and Away from Diseases and Symptoms
Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity
Will Davies - The Happiness Industry
Sandy Steingard - Anatomy of a Psychiatrist
Derek Summerfield - Moving Global Mental Health "Outside Our Heads"
China Mills - Global Mental Health - Coloniality, Technology and Medicalization
Jhilmil Breckenridge and Bhargavi Davar - Global Mental Health - An Old System Wearing New Clothes
Melissa Raven - The Global Mental Health Movement - Cause for Concern
Zach Bush - Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind
John Read and Sue Cunliffe - The 57th Maudsley Debate - This House Believes that ECT has no Place in Modern Medicine
Conflicts of Interest Questioned in Review of Prescribed Drug Dependence
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition, Mental Health and TED
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 2 - Robert Whitaker
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 1 - Nicole Lamberson, Josef Witt-Doerring, Chris Paige
Peter Groot and Akansha Vaswani - Tapering Strips and Shared Decision-Making
Sami Timimi and John Read - Latest Developments with The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists
Peter Gordon - Addressing the Divide Between the Arts and Medical Sciences
Sera Davidow - Intersections Between Sexual Violence and Psychiatric Abuse
Laura Delano - Connecting people through the Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project
John Read - UK Royal College of Psychiatry Refuses to Retract Misleading Statement about Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dismisses Complaint
Jeffrey Michael Friedman - Trauma and Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Russell Razzaque: Breaking Down Is Waking Up
Duncan Double - On Being a Critical Psychiatrist
Tina Minkowitz - The Abolition of Forced Psychiatric Interventions
John Read - The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and Antidepressant Withdrawal
Lucy Johnstone - The Power Threat Meaning Framework
Joanna Moncrieff - Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants
Michael Fontaine - What the Ancient World can Teach us About Emotional Distress
Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions
Kelli Foulkrod - Integrating Yoga with Psychotherapy
Jennifer Bahr - Treating the Whole Person
Sir Robin Murray - Reframing Psychotic Illness
Celia Brown - Surviving Psychiatry
Chris Hansen - Making Connections Through Intentional Peer Support
George Atwood - Shattered Worlds, the Experience of Personal Annihilation
Noel Hunter and Brett Francis - Diagnosis, Empowerment and Equality
Joseph Firth - The Role of Exercise and Nutrition in Early Psychosis
Jay Joseph - Why Schizophrenia Genetic Research is Running on Empty
David Healy - Seeking a Cure for Protracted, Medication-related Sexual Dysfunction
Gordon Warme - The Relationship Between Culture and Psychiatric 'Disorders'
David Mielke - Educating in the era of the psychiatric diagnosis
Olga Runciman - Moving Beyond Psychiatry
Bonnie Burstow and Nick Walker - An Introduction to Cognitive Liberty
Michael O'Loughlin - Exploring Narrative Approaches to Psychological Distress
Irving Kirsch - The Placebo Effect and What It Tells Us About Antidepressant Efficacy
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 2)
John Read - What the Science and Evidence Tell Us About Electroshock (ECT)
Bob Fiddaman - Taking on the Pharmaceutical Regulators and the Seroxat Scandal
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 1)
Rani Bora - Innate Health and Resilience, How It Differs to Mainstream Psychiatric Treatment
Jim van Os - Rethinking Biological Psychiatry
Kermit Cole - Dialogical Approaches to Extreme States
Pratima Singh - Exploring Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry
Monica Cassani - Achieving Health in Body, Mind and Spirit
Will Hall - A Harm Reduction Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2017 - Raising Global Understanding
Mo Hannah - Changing the Teaching of the Biological Model
Jim Gottstein - Patient Rights in Mental Healthcare