Exiles in the City

Conversation with Sasha Warren, author of "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia and Revolt" about how social/historical changes led to the development of asylums and related places, the alternatives that were created in places like Trieste, Italy in the 1970's, and what the US can learn from these approaches.

Conversation with Lori Leigh, Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago in Wellington in New Zealand, about facilitating a sense of place in housing for the Maori and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Conversation with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, author of "The Cities We Need" and "Contested City," about how urban design can be more inclusive of marginalized groups. Conversation includes a discussion of how the Urban Development Corporations created affordable housing on Roosevelt Island (formerly Blackwell's Island).

Conversation with Jazmine Russell, co-editor and author of "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health," and host of the Depth Work podcast, about the field of mad studies, and her lived experience of psychosis while living in New York City, and thoughts about how the urban environment can be both a stressor and resource..

Conversation with Evan Auguste, assistant professor in the psychology department at John Jay College and editor/author of "The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance: Let Them Not Be Forgotten" about the integration of Black psychology and forensic psychology, his time working at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, and the importance of participating in advocacy with lived experience organizations.

Conversation with Michelle Munson, professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, about using lived experience to inform the training of emerging mental health professionals, and about her forthcoming book on intergenerational trauma and healing that draws on her own family story.

Conversation with Stacy Horn, author of "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York."

Conversation with Sascha Altman Dubrul, co-founder of the Icarus Project and author of “Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer.”

Conversation with Mindy Lewis, author of "Life Inside," about her two year+ involuntary psychiatric hospitalization (between the ages 15 and 18) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Manhattan State Hospital (located on Ward’s Island) in the late 1960’s, as well as her life after and her attempt to make sense of and move on from those experiences.