Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.Hosted by James Moore, this podcast is part of Mad in America's mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking…
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First-Person Knowledge and the Meanings of Madness: An Interview with Gail Hornstein (opens the original)
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G ail Hornstein is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College. Across a long and influential career, her work has moved between psychology, psychoanalysis, history, qualitative research, and the study of first-person accounts of madness. She is the author of To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann , a biography of the pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for her intensive psychotherapeutic work with people diagnosed with schiz
Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling (opens the original)
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Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice and the co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives . His new book, Mad Studies: The Basics, introduces Mad Studies as a field that has emerged from community activism and the perspectives of people who have been psychiatrized, institutionalized,
The West Doesn't Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh Bhugra (opens the original)
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Dinesh Bhugra is a leading voice in social and cultural psychiatry. He is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King's College London and has served as president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , the British Medical Association , and the World Psychiatric Association . His many honors include being named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to psychiatry and receiving the Yves Pelicier Prize for his contributions to social psychiatry. A
Go/No Go - How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Marianne Apostolides (opens the original)
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Marianne Apostolides is the award-winning author of eight books, four of which have been translated and published internationally. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winner of the K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Her books include I Can't Get You Out of My Mind , Deep Salt Water , Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life , and Swim . Moving across fiction, memoir, and literary nonfiction, her work often returns to the body, desire, memory, and the stori
Unlearn Your Pain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity – A Conversation With Howard Schubiner (opens the original)
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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, May Cause Side Effects . Today, I'm excited to have Dr. Howard Schubiner on the show. Dr. Schubiner is an internist and a clinical professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals. He lectures internationally and is the author of three books, including his most recent boo
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