Madness Radio
What does it mean to be called "crazy" in a crazy world? Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health brings you personal experiences of 'madness' from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, and also features authors, advocates, professionals, and artists.
Hosted by Will Hall, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, Madness Radio was launched in 2005 on Valley Free Radio in Massachusetts and is syndicated nationally on the Pacifica Network. Madness Radio is heard monthly on KBOO the first monday of the month from 11:30am to 12. Will is a counselor in Portland studying at the Process Work Institute, and also the director of the support and education community Portland Hearing Voices and one of the co-coordinators of The Icarus Project.
Check out the website archives at www.madnessradio.net to listen online and download more than 100 Madness Radio episodes produced to date. Full hour-long versions of shows heard on KBOO are available.
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Psychologist Rufus May talks about mental health from both a personal and professional perspective.
Hosted by Will Hall
UK clinical psychologist Rufus May descended into madness -- convinced he was on a spy mission and that animals were robots, he even walked into a family gathering naked. How did Rufus find meaning in these experiences, learn to live without medication, and become a successful psychologist and mental health advocate? Rufus was recently featured in the Channel 4 feature film The Doctor Who Hears Voices.
- Title: Madness Radio 20100705
- Length: 29:13 minutes (26.76 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Mary Olson on Jaakko Seikkula's Open Dialog Approach to Mental Distress
Hosted by Will Hall
Is a 'psychotic' crisis inside one person's mind -- or does it happen between people, in their relationship? Can therapy untangle the web of madness by addressing the family, providers, and entire social network? Smith College social worker and Fullbright scholar Mary Olson discusses the innovative work of Jaakko Seikkula's Open Dialog Approach in Finland, which has achieved dramatic success in helping people through extreme states labeled 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia' -- while relying much less on medication and hospitalization.
http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/alternative-for-psychosis/, brassworks.millriver(at)gmail(dot)com
- Title: MadnessRadio 20100503
- Producer: Will Hall
- Length: 29:46 minutes (27.26 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
What should society do when people hear violent voices telling them to kill?
Hosted by WIll Hall
Today, Madness Radio asks: What should society do when people hear violent voices telling them to kill?
- Title: Madness Radio 20100405
- Length: 27:13 minutes (24.92 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It
Hosted by Will Hall
The US incarcerates more people than any country in the world - and 70% are people of color. Do we need better mental health care inside prisons -- or do prisons themselves cause trauma and madness?
Psychiatrist and civil lawsuit expert witness Dr.Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It, discusses overcrowding, racism, sensory deprivation, isolation, and sexual abuse in the disgraceful US prison system.
www.afsc.org/stopmax www.criticalresistance.org www.aclu.org/prisoners
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- Title: Madness Radio 20100301
- Producer: Will Hall
- Length: 28:37 minutes (26.2 MB)
- Format: MP3 Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)