Natasha Mitchell
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24,986 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Jul 2018
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All In The Mind · All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 3: Getting Personal · 24 Dec 2011
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Don't I sound too back there in 2002?
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The past decade has really seen the rise of what Harvard historian of science Anne Harrington once described to me as the neuro-narrative, people's own stories of their own broken brains, of mental illness, of survival, of recovery.
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So today we're getting a little bit personal, as we often have on the show.
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And one of the first interviews I recorded back in 2002 was with this fellow.
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Andy, you have called your book Electro Boy a memoir of mania.
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times I wonder when I was reading this, if it was really just a memoir of classic 1980s hedonism, sex, drugs, celebrity and more sex.
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Andy Berman with that incredible image and his book is called Electro Boy.
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He's since become a consultant supporting others with mental illness and stigma is a force we've always reckoned with and pulled apart here on All In The Mind.
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Another interview I've never forgotten was with Sandy Jeffs who found a way to turn the tables on her own experience of mental illness.
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through humour and poetry.
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She joined me in 2002 in All In The Mind edition number two.
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Sandy Jeffs describes herself as a sanity-challenged poet, and on today's show, her take on the popular belief that madness is the wellspring of creativity.
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It's a connection that we often make, but is there really any basis to it?
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Later we'll hear why one scientist thinks that the emergence of schizophrenia was the most important event in human history.
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He argues that it's what unlocked the creative potential of our uniquely human mind.
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But back to Sandy Jeffs, who's acclaimed for her very black but inspired poetry about her own life.
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At 23, just after she'd finished uni, Sandy found herself in a psychiatric ward with the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia.
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What sort of scenarios?
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Yeah, I'm interested to know.
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