http://freedom-center.org/view/madnessradio Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health. Produced by freedom-center.org & theicarusproject.net, peer-run support communities. Broadcast live weekly 6-7pm EST on FM Pacifica affiliates WXOJ-LP Northampton Mass, & KWMD Kasilof, Alaska. en Voices And Visions From Outside Mental Health Crossing the borders of psychiatry. Produced by freedom-center.org & theicarusproject.net, peer-run mental health support communities. Broadcast live weekly 6-7pm EST on FM Pacifica affiliates WXOJ-LP Northampton Mass, & KWMD Kasilof, Alaska. www.madnessradio.net no http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-genetic-predispositions-jay-joseph 51:09 Madness Radio 2008-05-07 Clinical psychologist Jay Joseph details medical science's 30-year failed quest to find any link between genetics and diagnoses of mental disorders, and debunks widely held beliefs in the psychiatric profession, including the idea of 'genetic predispositions' for mental illness. Jay is the author of The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes and The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope. http://www.jayjoseph.net/ Debunking genetic ideas of mental illness and disorders through careful critique of medical science claims. no mad science radio research Mon, 05 May 2008 08:07:39 -0400 admin 376 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2008-04-23-bipolar-diagnosis-bias-paula-caplan 56:39 Madness Radio 2008-04-30 <p> Harvard University faculty Paula Caplan, author of They Say You&#39;re Crazy: How The World&#39;s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who&#39;s Normal and editor of Bias In Psychiatric Diagnosis. Paula was on one of the writing committees for the DSM and offers an insightful perspective on the politics behind psychiatric pseudo-science. She discusses mental disorder labeling, including bipolar and post-trauma stress disorder, from a feminist perspective. <a href="http://www.psychdiagnosis.net/" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">www.psychdiagnosis.net</a> </p> Harvard faculty researcher on how diagnostic labeling reflects sexist, racist, and other bias. no race &amp; class radio research sex &amp; genders social justice Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:16:55 -0400 admin 375 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-process-oriented-counseling-joe-goodbread 52:47 Madness Radio 2008-04-23 <p>Counselor and teacher Joe Goodbread discusses his more than 25 years experience working with madness and extreme states using Process Oriented Psychology, an innovative approach based in the work of Carl Jung and developed by Arnold Mindell. Joe describes listening to the meaning in experience, helping people unfold their states, taoism, dreams, rank differences, and working with the body. Joe is a senior faculty at the Process Work institute and author of <em>The Dreambody Toolkit</em> and <em>Radical Intercourse</em>. <a href="/www.aamindell.net" target="_blank">www.aamindell.net</a>, <a href="/www.processwork.org" target="_blank">www.processwork.org</a></p> A Jungian-based approach to counseling madness and extreme states of consciousness. no alternative treatments books dreams radio spirit &amp; mysticism theory &amp; philosophy Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:35:42 -0400 admin 372 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-author-ronald-bassman-psychologist-survivor 53:05 Madness Radio 2008-14-16 <p> Internationally known advocate, psychiatric abuse survivor organizer, and clinical psychologist Ronald Bassman discusses and reads from his new book, <em>A Fight To Be: A Psychologist&#39;s Experience From Both Sides of the Locked Door</em>. Ron was diagnosed &quot;paranoid schizophrenic&quot; and left in back wards as a &quot;chronic case,&quot; but has gone on to become a leader in the recovery movement and an inspiring teacher and therapist. <a href="http://ronaldbassman.com/" target="_blank">www.ronaldbassman.com</a> </p> Author of 'A Fight To Be: A Psychologist's Experience From Both SIdes of the Locked Door' no books psych abuse radio spirit &amp; mysticism Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:14:18 -0400 admin 370 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-phillip-dawdy-forced-drugging 54:40 Madness Radio 2008-04-10 <p> Award-winning journalist Philip Dawdy, formerly a writer with the Seattle <em>Weekly</em> newspaper, discusses how forced psychiatric treatment and drugging are ineffective responses to violent crime and the so-called &quot;dangerous mentally ill.&quot; Philip is the writer of the excellent blog about Big Pharma profiteering and mental health policy <a href="/www.FuriousSeasons.com" target="_blank">www.FuriousSeasons.com</a>. </p> Forced drugging and treatment with former Seattle Weekly journalist currently of the FuriousSeasons.com blog. no big pharma drugs legal prisons &amp; crime radio social justice Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:15:39 -0400 admin 367 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-queer-writer-jessica-max-stein 52:06 Madness Radio 2008-04-03 Queer writer, educator, and Icarus Project organizer Jessica Max Stein talks about homophobia, mental health, and our broken educational system. She recently won an award from Poets & Writers magazine, and had a poem published in the Sun magazine. She reads from her 'zines Mad Love and Long Walk Back To Myself. Award-winning Poets & Writers and Sun magazines author on homophobia, mental health, and schools. no books poetry psych abuse radio sex &amp; genders social justice Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:40:07 -0400 admin 368 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-environmental-insanity-derrick-jensen 53:01 Madness Radio 2008-03-26 <p> Visionary writer and thought-provoking environmentalist Derrick Jensen talks about the human-caused ecological collapse of the natural world, family trauma, technological brainwashing, indigenous societies, Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, and the importance of rage in an undeniably insane world. <a href="/www.derrickjensen.org/">www.derrickjensen.org</a></p> Visionary writer and environmentalist on the world ecological collapse, trauma, and cultural brainwashing. no audio books ecology &amp; nature mad science radio real paranoia spirit &amp; mysticism theory &amp; philosophy Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:57:20 -0400 admin 365 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-charles-barber-comfortably-numb-author 53:07 Madness Radio 2008-03-19 Author Charles Barber talks about his new book Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation, a history of the rise of psychiatric drug marketing from 'mother's little helper' to today's 200 million plus anti-depressant prescriptions. http://www.charlesbarberwriting.com/. Author talks about his new book Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation. no big pharma books radio Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:52:22 -0500 admin 360 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-moosa-salie 50:41 Madness Radio 2008-03-12 Capetown South Africa survivor activist Moosa Salie talks about mental health organizing in Africa and beyond, and work to establish the Ubuntu Center for alternative support. Check out Moosa's blog at http://moosa-salie.oism.info/ and the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry at www.wnusp.net. Activist Moosa Salie on psychiatric survivor organizing in South Africa. no psych abuse radio Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:52:19 -0500 admin 359 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2008-01-30-vara-adams 51:40 Madness Radio-2008-01-30 Vara Adams survived forced hospitalization, drugging, and multiple electroshocks as a teen in Melbourne Australia. She went on to become a heavy metal-influenced songwriter about her experiences as part of the healing process. Show includes several of Vara's songs. www.varaadams.com Melbourne Australia songwriter shares her heavy metal-influenced songs and story of teen psych abuse. no children music radio social justice Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:35:52 -0500 admin 356 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2008-01-23-celia-brown-international-human-rights 52:10 Madness Radio 2008-01-23 <p> Psychiatric abuse survivor and human rights activist Celia Brown discusses working for change in the mental health system, including her ownn experiences and creating &#39;supported decision-making&#39; for people in distress. Celia is President of Mindfreedom International and a board member of the National Association of Rights Advocacy and Protection. www.mindfreedom.org www.narpa.org </p> Mindfreedom International President on working for system change, including supported decision making. no psych abuse race &amp; class radio social justice Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:29:41 -0500 admin 355 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-12-26-07-angela-shelton 54:36 Madness Radio 2007-12-26 Angela Shelton is an award-winning Hollywood actress and filmmaker, who traveled across the US meeting other women named Angela Shelton and discovering how widespread sexual abuse is in our society. She discusses her film Searching for Angela Shelton and her work helping people heal from trauma. www.angelashelton.com Hollywood filmmaker and actress discusses her documentary on sexual abuse and work for healing. no audio books prisons &amp; crime radio sex &amp; genders social justice Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:05:58 -0500 admin 350 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-12-19-stella-montour-colonialism-and-native-mental-health 51:11 Madness Radio 2007-12-19 First Nations Ojibway activist and psychiatric abuse survivor Stella Montour of Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada talks about colonialism and racism against native people, how they affect mental health, and her work for change. www.cmha-tb.on.ca Ojibway First Nations activist discusses Native American mental health and the impact of colonialism. no audio ecology &amp; nature radio social justice spirit &amp; mysticism Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:48:41 -0500 admin 348 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-12-12-our-crazy-economy-catherine-austin-fitts 55:56 Madness Radio 2007-12-12 A money insider's view of how crazy and corrupt our US-led world economic system really is, including drug money, mlitary spending, and the housing crisis. Catherine Austin Fitts was Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner under President Bush senior, Managing Director, Dillon Read & Co. Inc., and founder of Hamilton Securities investment bank. She has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to-date and has led portfolio strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities. www.solari.com A former President Bush Sr.- Assistant Secretary of Housing on how crazy our world economy really is: drugs, guns, and the housing crisis. no legal radio real paranoia social justice Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:55:10 -0500 admin 349 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-angela-bischoff-wayne-lax 51:20 Madness Radio 2007-12-05 Two interviews on psychiatric abuse: Angela Bischoff's husband Tooker Gomberg died in a suicide after taking anti-depressants; both were prominent Toronto environmental and peace activists. Wayne Lax survived 80 shock treatments and multiple hospitalizations over thirty years. Today both Angela and Wayne are waging campaigns to reform the mental health system. www.greenspiration.org Activist who lost her husband in an anti-depressant suicide and shock survivor discuss reforming mental health. no psych abuse radio Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:48:27 -0500 admin 347 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-11-28-police-training-julie-diamond 57:15 Madness Radio 2007-11-28 After James Chasse, a man with a schizophrenia diagnosis, was killed by Portland police in 2006, reforms included improved police training. Julie Diamond discusses efforts to help teach police better de-escalation and conflict resolution techniques as an alternative to force and violence. Check out www.mentalhealthportland.org, www.juliediamond.net, and another audio interview with Julie at http://www.katejobe.com/podcast.html. De-escalation and conflict training for Portland Police after they killed a man diagnosed with schizophrenia. no alternative treatments prisons &amp; crime psych abuse radio social justice Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:28:29 -0500 admin 344 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-bruce-levine-americas-depression-epidemic 54:51 Madness Radio 2007-11-21 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. Also check out www.brucelevine.net. Clinical psychologist on his new book on the social and political causes of depression. no alternative treatments big pharma books mad science radio research social justice Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:28:59 -0500 admin 340 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/alison-hillman-mdri-argentina 49:38 Madness Radio 2007-11-14 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. Check www.mdri.org and www.cels.org.ar. Alison Hillman Mental Disability Rights International on reforming Argentina's asylum system. no legal psych abuse radio social justice Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:52:51 -0500 admin 337 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/Madness-Radio-Asheville-Radical-Mental-Health 56:54 Madness Radio 2007-11-07 Molly Springlemeyer of the Asheville, North Carolina Radical Mental Health Collective talks about the amazing zero budget grassroots empowerment work she is doing in this mutual aid society, as well as telling her own story of being in the system. Molly Springlemeyer talks about the amazing zero budget grassroots empowerment work going on in NC. no alternative treatments dealing with crisis radio social justice Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:08:49 -0500 admin 330 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/virginia-tech 51:36 Madness Radio-2007-10-31 Icarus Project organizers Madigan Shive, Will Hall, Molly from Asheville, Neil Gong, and Sascha DuBrul visit Virginia Tech, site of the violent tragedy, and discuss campus mental health issues with students. Campus mental health issues dialog with Virginia Tech students. no radio social justice Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:45:45 -0400 admin 326 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/Madness-Radio-Youth-Suicide-Leah-Harris 51:36 Madness Radio 2007-10-24 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. Suicide survivor and advocate on alternative ways to prevent suicide no big pharma children coming off meds mental health screenings radio social justice suicide Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:41:33 -0400 admin 323 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-10-07-men-and-trauma-oryx-cohen 52:22 Madness Radio 2007-10-07 <p> 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.<br /> </p> Freedom Center co-founder on how men can heal from violence. no alternative treatments psych abuse radio social justice Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:06:05 -0400 admin 322 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-09-26-jamaican-dub-music-and-recovery-john-rice 52:50 Madness Radio 2007 09-26 Phoenix 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. Phoenix City Alabama mobile DJ on discovering healing through Dub music. no coming off meds drugs music psych abuse radio spirit &amp; mysticism Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:12:48 -0400 admin 315 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-09-19-what-psychosis-matt-morrissey 54:55 Madness Radio 2007-09-19 Counseling psychologist and biploar diagnosis survivor Matthew Morrissey discusses his experiences with madness, working with people from an alternative perspective, and the deeper meaning of 'psychosis.' www.fullspectrumcenter.org/ Bipolar survivor and clinical psychologist on the deeper meaning of madness. no dealing with crisis psych abuse radio Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:53:10 -0400 admin 314 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-09-12-patricia-deegan-personal-medicine 56:50 Madness Radio 2007-09-12 Longtime consumer-survivor movement leader and pioneer in recovery education talks about her story surviving a schizophrenia diagnosis, empowered medication decisions, and her development of innovative assistive technology. Recovery education leader on empowered meds decisions. no alternative treatments dealing with crisis radio tools &amp; tech Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:06:18 -0400 admin 306 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/mitch-earlywine 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 marijana and psychosis. Check out www.norml.org, the Norml podcast at www.normlaudiostash.com, and the Marijuana Policy Project www.mpp.org. Psychologist on marijuana, mental health, and madness. no alternative treatments drugs herbal medicine prisons &amp; crime radio Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:11:47 -0400 admin 294 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/aug-1-2007-vfr-bedpush-show-2006 55:19 Madness Radio 2007-08-22 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, Amy Bookbinder, Oryx Cohen, and Abigail Adams. Also check out www.bedpush.com Freedom Center activists on the cross-town bed push protest. no events psych abuse radio social justice Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:11:46 -0400 admin 293 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/evelyn-pringle 52:57 Madness Radio 2007-08-15 Independent journalist Evelyn Pringle writes extensively on Big Pharma corruption and the role the mainstream media plays in covering it up. Muckraking journalist exposes pill company corruption no big pharma drugs legal mad science press radio research Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:50:05 -0400 admin 274 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madnessradio-2007-08-08-manufacturing-depression-gary-greenberg 51:47 MadnessRadio-2007-08-08 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. Harpers magazine journalist Gary Greenberg on disease mongering and medicalizing society no audio big pharma drugs radio Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:44:56 -0400 admin 201 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-07-25-bonfire-madigan-visionary-musician 51:15 Madness Radio 2007-07-25 Riot Grrl instigator Bonfire Madigan talks about her family, the mental health system, living outside the mainstream and her creative inspiration as a visionary musician. Riot Grrl legend Bonfire Madigan: visionary musician no art dreams radio Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:18:01 -0400 admin 198 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-07-19-madness-survivor-voices-gail-hornstein 53:29 Madness Radio 2007-07-18 First-person accounts of madness, and preview of upcoming book Agnes's Jacket, with longtime Freedom Center Ally & Mt. Holyoke College Professor Gail Hornstein. Mt. Holyoke Professor discusses first-person accounts of madness no books history psych abuse radio Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:40:47 -0400 admin 200 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-07-11-07-globalization-psychiatry-philip-thomas-post-psychiatry 51:01 Madness Radio 2007-07-11 <p> UK psychiatrist Philip Thomas discusses the globalization of psychiatry and pharmaceutical company expansion world-wide, including how community empowerment and traditional ways of care can challenge western individualism based medical model of mental health. Check out Phil&#39;s book Post-Psychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World, and his essay <a href="http://www.theicarusproject.net/files/globalpsychthomasjpubhlth.pdf" target="_blank">Challenging the Globalization of Psychiatry</a>, both writtern with Irish psychiatrist Pat Bracken.</p> Big Pharma is colonizing the planet; post-psychiatry responds... no big pharma radio research social justice theory &amp; philosophy Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:24:14 -0400 admin 262 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madnessradio-2007-07-04-john-horgan-science-writer-undiscovered-mind 56:59 Madness Radio 2007-07-04 <p> John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American, Discover, and the New York Times, talks about neuroscience, genetics, the placebo effect psychedelic drugs, and more. John is the author of <em>The Undiscovered Mind: How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation</em>, <em>Rational Mysticism</em>, and <em>The End of Science</em>. He also hosts a video blog <a href="http://www.bloggingheads.tv/" target="_blank">bloggingheads.tv</a>.</p> Science + Discover magazine journalist and sharp neuroscience critic. no drugs mad science radio research theory &amp; philosophy Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:24:09 -0400 admin 261 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-06-27-madness-george-w-bush-w-paul-levy 50:10 Madness Radio 2007-06-27 <p> Paul Levy, who went through psych hospitalizations as part of a spiritual emergence process and became a Buddhist teacher, discusses his book The Madness Of George W. Bush A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis. www.awakeninthedream.com</p> Presidential psychosis from a spiritual perspective: lucid dreaming. no mad science radio social justice spirit &amp; mysticism Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:24:04 -0400 admin 260 at http://freedom-center.org http://freedom-center.org/madness-radio-2007-06-20-rocky-caravelli-ibogaine-psychedelic-addction-treatment 57:12 Madness Radio 2007-06-20 <div class="content"> <p>Rocky Caravelli talks about his recovery from 25 years of methamphetamine and heroin addition and a bipolar diagnosis through treatment with Ibogaine, a visionary plant medicine from indigenous people in West Africa, and his work helping many others heal. Rocky is director of Ibogaine treatment center Awaken In The Dream house in San Francisco de Nayarit, Mexico.</p><p><a href="http://www.awakeninginthedream.com/" target="_blank">http://www.awakeninginthedream.com/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ibogainewalk.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ibogainewalk.com/</a></p> </div> West African shamanic plant medicine to treat addiction. no alternative treatments coming off meds drugs herbal medicine mad science radio spirit &amp; mysticism Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:23:51 -0400 admin 259 at http://freedom-center.org