Being Mindful of Agony: How to Incorporate the Sublime in Our Daily Life - An Interview with Will Adams
How does a wounded world wound us in return? Can we be mindful and offer intimate attention to pain and trauma? We answer these and other qu...
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Mad in America: science, psychiatry and social justice
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide. This podcast is part of Mad...
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Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: What Can Genetics Tell Us? A Conversation With Selma Eikelenboom
In this episode of the Mad in America podcast, Brooke Siem speaks with Selma Eikelenboom, a forensic scientist and medical examiner whose ca...
When Stopping Prescription Drugs Isn't Simple: Alicia Martin and the TaperMate Story
Alicia Martin is an Australian community pharmacist, a member of the Not Broken Project and founder of TaperMate . Through her work in pharm...
First-Person Knowledge and the Meanings of Madness: An Interview with Gail Hornstein
G ail Hornstein is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College. Across a long and influential career, her work has moved betwee...
Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling
Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan Univers...
The West Doesn't Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh Bhugra
Dinesh Bhugra is a leading voice in social and cultural psychiatry. He is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King...
Go/No Go - How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Marianne Apostolides
Marianne Apostolides is the award-winning author of eight books, four of which have been translated and published internationally. She is a...
Unlearn Your Pain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity – A Conversation With Howard Schubiner
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of the award-winning memoir on antidepressant withdrawal,...
The Empire of Madness: Why Psychiatry Must Rethink Human Suffering - An Interview with Khameer Kidia
K hameer Kidia is a physician and an anthropologist, works at Harvard Medical School and the University of Zimbabwe, and spends his life bet...
A Mother's Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing
Chelsea McVeigh began her journey with psychiatric medications at 16, never imagining where it would lead. At 31, during a new pregnancy, sh...
Using Lived Experience to Challenge Systemic Prescriber Inexperience in Antidepressant Withdrawal
Carla Delgado is a San Diego native with eight years of experience in healthcare and a master's in healthcare administration. She also has a...
Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen
J ussi Valtonen is a neuropsychologist, an adjunct researcher with the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), a professor o...
Anthropology, Arctic Iceland and Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Conversation With Fiona Frenzen
Born in Germany and raised in Denmark, Fiona Frenzen is a qualified teacher with a master's degree in anthropology. For years, she had a dre...
Meeting Life Unmedicated: Aging, Protracted Withdrawal and Healing - A Conversation With Marsha Zaritsky
Marsha Zaritsky is a licensed mental health therapist certified in Internal Family Systems. She joins us to explain how her experience with...
Faith, Culture, and Coercion: An Interview with Cultural Psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis
Eric Jarvis is a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University whose work brings attention to areas often overlooked in mainstream psychiatry...
Kindling Our Inner Fire: A Residential Program Where Drug Tapering is the Norm
Beatrice Birch is the Founder and Director of Inner Fire, a residential program in rural Vermont, which is unique in one particular way. It...
The Madness Pill: How Psychedelics and Stimulants Shaped Biological Psychiatry — An Interview with Justin Garson
Justin Garson is a philosopher and historian of science at the City University of New York. He has published several books and articles on b...
Finding God and Leaving Psychiatry: An Interview With Kelsey Osgood
Kelsey Osgood is the author of How to Disappear Completely: on Modern Anorexia , which was chosen for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great Wr...
"Everybody Can Recover": Fighting Psychiatric Subjectivation and Helping Others Along the Way: An Interview with Prateeksha Sharma
Psychosis and conditions like Schizophrenia have been tainted with pessimism right from the beginning. Doctors often don't know that recover...
The Fight for the Soul of Psychotherapy: An Interview with Linda Michaels
Linda Michaels is a psychologist in private practice in Chicago and a co-founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She trained at...