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Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health
Can psychotherapy work against the mainstream system? What does it take to be truly compassionate as a professional? And what are the downsi...
Is “schizophrenia” a broken brain — or shamanic journeying to ancestral dimensions? Is being “out of touch with real...
Will Hall greets community FM station Valley Free Radio for its 20 years anniversary celebration! Founders Will and Ed Russell sparked the v...
Mad Camp is an annual summer camp for mad people in Northern California – with people joining from all over the world! What’s it...
How do decriminalizing drug use and sex work advance mad liberation? What lessons can psychiatric survivors learn from the harm reduction mo...
Legendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-fou...
Do grieving goats lick psychedelic lichen? Altered states are part of nature, used by plants and animals for survival(!). How does ecology r...
Will Hall’s June 2024 Grand Rounds talk at University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ...
Is madness dysfunction and breakdown – or part of human evolution that helps us survive? Writers going back to Hippocrates saw madness...
What can R.D. Laing, madness, and Star Trek teach us about the end of the world – and saving it? Will Hall reads “ Can Madness S...
Does hearing God’s voice make you mentally ill? Will psychiatry help you cope with grief and rejection – or make things worse? A...
Dina Tyler’s FANTASTIC, heartful, brilliant December 2023 Grand Rounds talk at UCSF Medical School, “Improving Outcomes for Psyc...
Audiobook mp3 of Chapter 7 “A Ten Day Voyage”, from The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise , by R.D. Laing, read by...
Why are assault, kidnapping, and torture legal – when you have a psychiatric diagnosis? Is psychiatry’s legal double standard un...
Are psychotherapy’s assumptions completely misguided? What is really at stake in the research and practice of psychology? Is it possib...
How does the terror of child abuse inspire the heights of spiritual awakening? Are risky behaviors with drugs and extreme sports also a sear...
Therapist Ryan Hofrichter flips the mic on Madness Radio host Will Hall for a wide-ranging discussion about madness, psychiatry, and being a...
Can teens lead their own mental health education? Are suicidal feelings and self harm “contagions” that young people shouldnR...
Are trauma, medication injury, and holistic health connected? Does Lyme disease infection relate to tardive dyskinesia from psychiatric drug...
Read this book! Is discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities ever justified? Is de...
Should we reform – or abolish – psychiatry? Can capitalism provide mental health, or do we need some kind of socialism or anti-c...
When Karin Jervert withdrew from 5 psychiatric medications the conflicting voices and forces in her head became pathways to art and spirit....
When Cassie Wilson experienced mental distress due to an internship setting triggering past trauma memories, she called student counseling –...
Mad Camp is coming! July 20-24 2023 – and annually – mad people are gathering for summer camp in the forested mountains two hour...
The essay from Mad In America Sept 2021 “Ending The Silence Around Psychedelic Therapy Abuse” , read by Will Hall: Michael Polla...
What if we just started having conversations about how to help each other through hard times? And took the time needed to really have discus...
What does a life dedicated to love and freedom look like? Laura-Marie River Victor Peace Nopales joins co-hosts Jacks McNamara and Will Hall...
Just in time for the holidays, a chapter from Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness : “Christmas Vacation in the Schizo...
Can survivors be therapists – and even better at it? Jacks McNamara – poet, trauma healing coach, and co-founder of The Icarus P...
Nedra Deadwyler of Atlanta Georgia’s Civil Bikes interviews Madness Radio’s Will Hall about bicycles, mental health, and human l...
Jay Mahler was one of the originators of the psychiatric survivors movement in the 1960s, joining protests with the Free Speech Movement at...
Survivingantidepressants.org is one of the leading and longest running communities of mutual and and peer self-help around psychiatric drug...
In this guest podcast, Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine sits down with Madness Radio host Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to C...
At the Madness Radio book launch a few years ago writer and poet Susie Meserve read her creative nonfiction essay “A Little Crazy,R...
You’re shut inside and it’s time for a children’s book! For this episode we’ve selected 1999’s The Iceling by...
Jyl Ion hears voices, but she refuses to view these non-ordinary experiences as a sign of mental illness. Instead Jyl came off 16 years of m...
Do bipolar and psychosis have a healing potential blocked by suppression, medications, and avoidance? What if we could help people safely an...
Do early psychosis programs serve healing – or function as surveillance and control? Are treatments for paranoia actually themselves f...
After taking the psychedelic drug ayahuasca Martha Elisabeth went into an extended altered state diagnosed as psychotic. Her terrifying orde...
What is at the root of world violence? How does psychiatry re-create dynamics of humiliation and shame that drive people crazy? Is there a j...
Audiobook mp3 of Introduction and Chapter 1 “Persons and Experience”, from The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise ,...
What does it mean to be called “crazy” in a crazy world? Listen to the free audiobook of the Preface to Outside Mental Health: V...
Voice hearers, mystics, visionaries, and mad people are found throughout the scriptures of Judaism. What does Jewish theology have to teach...
Can the breakdown of psychosis show the way forward to spiritual breakthrough? Is there a path through the depths of mental health crisis in...
Has modern psychiatry lost its soul? How can dreams, storytelling, and imagination help people in emotional crisis – including psychos...
How is psychotherapy different when the therapist is also a survivor? What vital lessons must therapists learn from people who have experien...
What does healthcare become when science is limited by a mechanistic, machine view of reality? How does a mechanistic view shape concepts of...
Does a diet without animal products improve mental health? Why can changing to plant based nutrition be so hard to sustain? And are people&#...
How can people come off psychiatric medications in the safest way? What are the key lessons and vital ingredients for leaving psychiatric ca...
What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What’s it like to be a queer pregnant teenager? And is it true that friends...