Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Episodes
Anthony Ryan Hatch - The Management of Captive Populations with Psychiatric Drugs
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Anthony Ryan Hatch is a sociologist and associate professor of Science in Society, African American studies and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan ...
Mary Watkins - Opening Doors in the Borderlands
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Watkins is a psychologist at Pacifica Graduate Institute who focuses on reorienting psychology toward social justice and liberatory ends. She has...
Peter Mayfield - Healing Youth with Nature and Connection
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mayfield is the founder and executive director of Gateway Mountain Center in California, an innovative program for helping youth learn, heal, an...
Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall - Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children
14 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Drs. Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall their new initiative, Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children (SPAC!). Pe...
Psychological Support for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to support for those who are struggling to withdraw from psychiatric drugs. Recently in the UK, this iss...
Celia Brown - On Human Rights and Surviving Race
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, MIA Correspondent Leah Harris interviews Celia Brown. Celia is a psychiatric survivor and a prominent leader in the movement ...
Lindsay Church – Military Mental Health – From the Brink and the Journey to Recovery
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview US Navy Veteran and Co-Founder of Minority Veterans of America, Lindsay Church. Lindsay served from 2008-2012 as...
Dorothy Dundas - Survivorship, Resistance, and Connection
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, MIA Correspondent Leah Harris interviews psychiatric survivor Dorothy Dundas. Dorothy is an activist, a mother, a mentor, and ...
Joseph Gone - When Healing Looks Like Justice
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Gone is a professor of both Anthropology and Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. He is a clinical and community psychologi...
Steven C Hayes - A Liberated Mind
05 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor of Psychology Dr. Steven C. Hayes. Dr. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis pr...
Jenny Freeman - Climate Change, Mental Health and Collective Action
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Freeman is a marriage and family therapist and an Expressive Arts Therapist. Since 2017, she has been researching narratives centered on how ...
IIPDW - Carina Håkansson and John Read
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to psychiatric drug withdrawal and in particular the work of the International Institute for Psychiatric ...
Peter Kinderman - Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care
28 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Professor Peter Kinderman. Peter is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, honorary Con...
Zhiying Ma - Recuperating the Social Person in China
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio, we interview Anthropologist Zhiying Ma, who explores mental health care in China, including tensions between Western psychiatry and soc...
Ben Furman - Understanding and Dealing With Adolescent Rage
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, in the second of a number of podcasts focused on parenting issues, we interview Ben Furman MD. Ben is a Finnish psychiatrist, ...
Dan Hurd - One Pedal at a Time
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our second week of MIA Veterans & Military Families, we interview U.S. Navy Veteran Dan Hurd. Dan is the Founder of Ride With Dan USAand the One Pe...
Lillian Comas-Diaz - Addressing the Roots of Racial Trauma
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lillian Comas-Díaz is a pioneer in the field of ethnocultural approaches to mental health. She is both a clinical practitioner and multicultural femi...
Derek Blumke – The Mad in America Veterans Initiative
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to veterans, service members and military families. MIA has recently launched a new resource for militar...
Craig Wiener - ADHD, A Return to Psychology
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, in the first of a number of podcasts focussed on parenting issues, we interview Dr. Craig Wiener, a licensed psychologist bas...
Pat Bracken - Toward a Critical Self-Reflective Psychiatry
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Bracken is a psychiatrist who questions many of the fundamental assumptions of his field. He has worked as a psychiatrist in rural Ireland, inner-...
Diana Kopua - Learning a Different Way
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
MIA's Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Diana Kopua about the Mahi a Atua approach, the global mental health movement, and the importance of language and narrat...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 1
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, ...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the MIA podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, ...
Lucy Johnstone - The Creation of a Conceptual Alternative to the DSM
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Lucy Johnstone and her colleagues in the UK launched the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF), a set of ideas that represented a sharp dep...
Lee Coleman - Breaking Out of the Circle - Creating a Non-violent Revolution
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we continue our series of discussions with Doctor Lee Coleman. In previous podcasts, we have discussed Lee's views as a crit...
Felicity Thomas and Richard Byng - Poverty, Pathology and Pills
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Tim Beck interviewed Dr. Felicity Thomas and Dr. Richard Byng. Dr. Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Medical Sch...
Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Gavin Crowell-Williamson interviewed Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiolo...
David Cohen - Mad Science, Psychiatric Coercion and the Therapeutic State
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Peter Simons interviewed David Cohen, PhD, a social worker, professor of social welfare, and Associate Dean for Research...
John Read - Fighting for the Meaning of Madness
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Akansha Vaswani interviewed Dr. John Read, a clinical psychologist at the University of East London, about the influenc...
Lee Coleman – The Insanity Defence, Storytelling on the Witness Stand
20 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we present our second chat with Doctor Lee Coleman. In the first interview in this series, we discussed Lee's career, his vie...
Jonathan Raskin - Constructing Alternatives to the DSM
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Jessica Janze interviewed Dr. Jonathan Raskin, in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York a...
Kelly Brogan - The Science and Pseudoscience of Women's Mental Health
13 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health Podcast: Episode 3 This past week, I had the great pleasure to talk with Dr. Kelly Brogan, a leading voice ...
Vance Trudeau - Antidepressant Exposure Across Generations
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, MIA's Zenobia Morrill interviews Dr. Vance Trudeau, a professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Dr. Trudeau describes ...
Lee Coleman - The Reign of Error
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Doctor Lee Coleman. Lee trained in psychiatry during the 1960s, quickly adopting a sceptical attitude to the newl...
Mark Horowitz - Peer-Support Groups Were Right, Guidelines Were Wrong - Tapering Off Antidepressants
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interview by Peter Simons. Dr. Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and researcher and recently co-authored, with Dr. David Taylor, a review of a...
Gail Hornstein - First-Person Accounts of Madness and Global Mental Health
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MIA Radio presents the fifth in a series of interviews on the topic of the global "mental health" movement." This series is being developed...
Alita Taylor - Open Dialogue - Making Meaning
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we turn our attention to Open Dialogue and we chat with psychotherapist and Open Dialogue trainer Alita Taylor. Alita is a l...
Jim van Os - Towards Resilience and Possibilities and Away from Diseases and Symptoms
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor Jim van Os. Professor van Os is Chairman of the Division of Neuroscience at Utrecht University Medical...
Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this second interview in our Science and Pseudoscience of Mental Health series, Dr. Sharna Olfman interviews Dr. Darcia Narvaez. In 1955, Erich F...
Will Davies - The Happiness Industry
17 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we discuss the issue of forced treatment, coercive mental health interventions like involuntary commitment, forced drugging, and electroconvulsiv...
Sandy Steingard - Anatomy of a Psychiatrist
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. Sandy Steingard. Dr. Steingard is Medical Director at Howard Center, a community mental health center where s...
Derek Summerfield - Moving Global Mental Health "Outside Our Heads"
27 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, MIA Radio presents the fourth in a series of interviews on the topic of the global "mental health" movement." This series is being develope...
China Mills - Global Mental Health - Coloniality, Technology and Medicalization
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we bring you the third in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. Part one of the series featured Dr Melissa...
Jhilmil Breckenridge and Bhargavi Davar - Global Mental Health - An Old System Wearing New Clothes
20 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we bring you the second in our series of podcasts on the topic of the global mental health movement. These interviews are led by our Mad in Ame...
Melissa Raven - The Global Mental Health Movement - Cause for Concern
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we present the first in a series of interviews on the topic of the global 'mental health' movement. These interviews will be led by our Mad...
Zach Bush - Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sharna Olfman Ph.D interviews Zach Bush MD One of the few triple board-certified physicians in the country, with expertise in Internal Medicine, En...
John Read and Sue Cunliffe - The 57th Maudsley Debate - This House Believes that ECT has no Place in Modern Medicine
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) or Electroshock as it's known in the US. On Wednesday, September 19th,...
Conflicts of Interest Questioned in Review of Prescribed Drug Dependence
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we discuss the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists representation on a Government-led review of Prescribed Drug Dependence. Prof...
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition, Mental Health and TED
28 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Julia Rucklidge. Dr Rucklidge is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zeala...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 2 - Robert Whitaker
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 1 - Nicole Lamberson, Josef Witt-Doerring, Chris Paige
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we present a special episode of the podcast to join in the many events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, July...
Peter Groot and Akansha Vaswani - Tapering Strips and Shared Decision-Making
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On MIA Radio this week, Akansha Vaswani and Dr Peter Groot discuss Tapering Strips, a novel and practical solution for those who wish to taper gradual...
Sami Timimi and John Read - Latest Developments with The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we provide an update on a complaint made to the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists by a group of thirty academics, psychiatrist...
Peter Gordon - Addressing the Divide Between the Arts and Medical Sciences
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr Peter Gordon. Dr Gordon describes himself as a gardener with an interest in medicine. He trained in both medicine and lands...
Sera Davidow - Intersections Between Sexual Violence and Psychiatric Abuse
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we interview Sera Davidow, a psychiatric survivor and prolific activist for the human rights of people labeled mentally ill. Se...
Laura Delano - Connecting people through the Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Laura Delano. Laura is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Inner Compass Initiative and The Withdrawal Project, which aim...
John Read - UK Royal College of Psychiatry Refuses to Retract Misleading Statement about Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dismisses Complaint
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving a formal complaint lodged with the UK Royal C...
Jeffrey Michael Friedman - Trauma and Forced Psychiatric Treatment
14 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Jeffrey Michael Friedman, a clinical social worker and an activist in the psychiatric survivor's movement. Jeffre...
Russell Razzaque: Breaking Down Is Waking Up
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr Russell Razzaque. Dr Razzaque currently works as a consultant psychiatrist and associate medical director in east London an...
Duncan Double - On Being a Critical Psychiatrist
17 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr. Duncan Double. Duncan is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. He is foun...
Tina Minkowitz - The Abolition of Forced Psychiatric Interventions
10 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Tina Minkowitz. Tina is an attorney and survivor of psychiatry who represented the World Network for Users and Su...
John Read - The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and Antidepressant Withdrawal
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving the Royal College of Psychiatrists. These eve...
Lucy Johnstone - The Power Threat Meaning Framework
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr Lucy Johnstone. Lucy is a clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical ...
Joanna Moncrieff - Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants
03 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr Joanna Moncrieff. Dr Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, academic and author. She has an interest in the history, philosophy and p...
Michael Fontaine - What the Ancient World can Teach us About Emotional Distress
17 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Professor Michael Fontaine. Michael is Professor of Classics and Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at Cornell ...
Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview journalist and author Johann Hari. Johann is one of our foremost social science thinkers and writers. In addition to writing...
Kelli Foulkrod - Integrating Yoga with Psychotherapy
20 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Kelli Foulkrod. Kelli is the owner of the Organic Mental Health Center. She is a therapist, yoga teacher, and m...
Jennifer Bahr - Treating the Whole Person
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. Jennifer Bahr. Dr Bahr is a passionate advocate for naturopathic approaches to health and wellbeing. She is t...
Sir Robin Murray - Reframing Psychotic Illness
23 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Professor Sir Robin Murray. Professor Murray is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in the Psychosis Service loca...
Celia Brown - Surviving Psychiatry
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Celia Brown. Celia is a psychiatric survivor and a prominent leader in the movement for human rights in mental he...
Chris Hansen - Making Connections Through Intentional Peer Support
09 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Chris Hansen. Chris started working in New Zealand as an activist after a psychiatric hospitalization 20 years ag...
George Atwood - Shattered Worlds, the Experience of Personal Annihilation
02 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio, we interview Dr. George Atwood. Dr. Atwood has devoted a substantial part of his life to the study and treatment of what he re...
Noel Hunter and Brett Francis - Diagnosis, Empowerment and Equality
25 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Download to listen later... This week on MIA Radio, we share the time between two interviewees; clinical psychologist Dr. Noel Hunter and entrepreneu...
Joseph Firth - The Role of Exercise and Nutrition in Early Psychosis
18 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Joseph Firth. Dr Firth is a postdoctoral research fellow at Western Sydney University. His research focuses o...
Jay Joseph - Why Schizophrenia Genetic Research is Running on Empty
11 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr Jay Joseph. Dr Joseph is a clinical psychologist and author who brings a critical perspective to claims in the...
David Healy - Seeking a Cure for Protracted, Medication-related Sexual Dysfunction
04 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interview Dr David Healy. Dr Healy is an internationally respected psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A profess...
Gordon Warme - The Relationship Between Culture and Psychiatric 'Disorders'
28 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interview Dr Gordon Warme. Dr Warme is a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. He trained with Karl Menninger at the Menninger Clini...
David Mielke - Educating in the era of the psychiatric diagnosis
21 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interview David Mielke. David is a psychology graduate and teacher in a California high school who has become increasingly concerned abou...
Olga Runciman - Moving Beyond Psychiatry
14 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Mad in America podcast we interview Olga Runciman. Olga is an international trainer and speaker, writer, campaigner, and artist. Sh...
Bonnie Burstow and Nick Walker - An Introduction to Cognitive Liberty
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mad in America editor Emily Sheera Cutler presents the first in a series of interviews that examine the many important issues around forced...
Michael O'Loughlin - Exploring Narrative Approaches to Psychological Distress
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mad in America's news editor Justin Karter interviews Professor Michael O'Loughlin. Professor O'Loughlin is a college professor and researc...
Irving Kirsch - The Placebo Effect and What It Tells Us About Antidepressant Efficacy
23 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week I have had the honour of interviewing Dr Irving Kirsch. Dr Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in me...
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 2)
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a very special guest for you, it has been my honour to be able to interview Dr. Peter Breggin. Dr. Breggin is a Harvard-trained psyc...
John Read - What the Science and Evidence Tell Us About Electroshock (ECT)
09 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have an interview with Professor John Read. Professor Read worked for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental he...
Bob Fiddaman - Taking on the Pharmaceutical Regulators and the Seroxat Scandal
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have an interview with Bobby Fiddaman. Bobby is a very well known author, blogger and researcher who has been writing about psychiatric d...
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 1)
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a very special guest for you, it has been my honour to be able to interview Dr. Peter Breggin. Dr. Breggin is a Harvard-trained psyc...
Rani Bora - Innate Health and Resilience, How It Differs to Mainstream Psychiatric Treatment
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr. Rani Bora. Dr. Bora is a qualified Psychiatrist and Mental Health and Resilience Coach. She has studied a number of appr...
Jim van Os - Rethinking Biological Psychiatry
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Professor Jim van Os. Professor van Os is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Maastricht University ...
Kermit Cole - Dialogical Approaches to Extreme States
05 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Kermit Cole. Kermit's first career was in film and television, directing, amongst others, Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit ...
Pratima Singh - Exploring Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry
29 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we interview Dr. Pratima Singh. Dr. Singh completed her medical degree in India, before moving to the UK to work at the Maudsley NHS Hospit...
Monica Cassani - Achieving Health in Body, Mind and Spirit
22 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have an interview with Monica Cassani. Monica has seen the mental health system from both sides – as a social worker and as a person ...
Will Hall - A Harm Reduction Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
15 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have an interview with Will Hall. Will is a mental health advocate, counsellor, writer, and teacher. Will advocates the recovery approac...
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2017 - Raising Global Understanding
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a special episode to join in with the events being held for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day. World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day ...
Mo Hannah - Changing the Teaching of the Biological Model
08 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we talk to Dr. Maureen (Mo) Hannah. Mo is a Professor of Psychology at Siena College, New York, where she ...
Jim Gottstein - Patient Rights in Mental Healthcare
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the Mad in America podcast, we talk to Jim Gottstein, president and founder of the organisation Law Project for Psychiatric Rights. Jim ...