Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

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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 psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change. On the podcast we have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world. For more information visit madinamerica.com To contact us email podcasts@madinamerica.com

Episode Date
Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper
Mar 20, 2024
Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients - Swapnil Gupta
Mar 06, 2024
Is Madness an Evolved Signal? – Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction
Feb 28, 2024
'It Was a Joint Effort'- Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister's Story to Life
Feb 21, 2024
What if Much of What you Thought you Knew About Mental Health was up for Debate?
Jan 25, 2024
The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman
Jan 17, 2024
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs
Dec 20, 2023
Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History
Dec 13, 2023
The Making of a 'Madness' That Hides Our Monsters - An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley
Nov 15, 2023
A Playground for Predators-Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship
Nov 08, 2023
May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem
Oct 25, 2023
Branding Diseases: Ray Moynihan on How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions
Oct 18, 2023
How Mad Studies and the Psychological Humanities are Changing Mental Health: An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis
Oct 11, 2023
Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy
Sep 27, 2023
Family Panel Discussion – Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Person in Crisis
Sep 20, 2023
Sacred Conversations: A Talk with Susan Swim and a Father Whose Daughter Found Healing
Sep 13, 2023
The Radical Politics of Madness-Micha Frazer-Carroll
Aug 30, 2023
Can Psychosocial Disability Decolonize Mental Health? A Conversation with Luis Arroyo and Justin Karter
Aug 16, 2023
Sarah Fay - Cured: A Memoir
Aug 02, 2023
Sharon Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte - Mental Health Podcasts: A Force for Good in a Contested Field
Jul 19, 2023
James Greenblatt - 'We Have a Neck' - The Links Between Body and Brain
Jul 12, 2023
Nandita Chaudhary - Challenging Western-Centric Child Psychology
Jul 05, 2023
Mia Berrin - Embodying Emotional Taboos: Musicians and Mental Health
Jun 14, 2023
David Edward Walker - Oppressive Mental Health Practices - For Native People, the Past is Present
Jun 07, 2023
Chris Bullard - The Sound Mind Festival
May 18, 2023
Chris van Tulleken - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food and Why Can't We Stop?
May 17, 2023
David Carmichael - The Antidepressant Safety Tour
May 10, 2023
Tanya Frank - Zig Zag Boy: My Family's Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare
Apr 05, 2023
Pata Suyemoto - Centering Racial Justice and Community in Mental Health Advocacy and Suicide Prevention
Mar 29, 2023
Camille Robcis - Uncovering Radical Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy in Postwar France
Mar 22, 2023
Erick Turner - Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear: How Publication Bias Threatens Research Integrity and Public Health
Mar 08, 2023
Adam Urato - Chemicals Have Consequences: Antidepressants and Pregnancy
Feb 22, 2023
Owen Whooley - Psychiatry's Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention
Feb 08, 2023
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
Jan 18, 2023
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s "Medication-Free” Hospital Survive?
Jan 11, 2023
Ten Years of Rocking the Boat - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
Dec 21, 2022
Changing Narratives - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
Dec 14, 2022
Art and Transformation - Creating Justice in Mental Health Care
Nov 23, 2022
David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy
Nov 16, 2022
Morgan Shields - Breaking Academia's Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2022
Anders Sørensen - Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice
Nov 05, 2022
Justin Karter - Exploring the Fault Lines in Mental Health Discourse
Oct 19, 2022
Jim Flannery - Sorry It's Not Funny – Comedy, Hip-Hop and Activism
Oct 12, 2022
Diana Rose - Is Service-User Research Possible in Mental Health?
Sep 14, 2022
Jon Jureidini – Evidence-Based Medicine in a Post-Truth World
Sep 07, 2022
Liam MacGabhann, Martha Griffin, Harry Gijbels and Elaine Browne - The Launch of Mad in Ireland
Aug 22, 2022
Beverley Thomson – Antidepressed - Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Aug 17, 2022
John Read and Jeffrey Masson - Biological Psychiatry and the Mass Murder of “Schizophrenics”
Aug 10, 2022
Kaori Wada - How Grief Became a Disorder and What This Means About Us
Aug 03, 2022
Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Jul 13, 2022
Kristina Marusic - Pollution's Mental Toll
Jul 06, 2022
Jessica Taylor - Pathologized Since Eve - Women, Trauma, and Sexy but Psycho
Jun 29, 2022
Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?
Jun 15, 2022
Tara Thiagarajan - Mental Wellbeing Among Internet-enabled Populations of the World
Jun 08, 2022
Bruce Cohen - The Failings of “Mental Health”: How a Seemingly Benign Concept Might be Dangerous
May 25, 2022
Jennifer Barkin - New Tools to Support New Moms
May 18, 2022
Alice and Kenneth Thompson - Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh
May 11, 2022
Trans Lifeline - Naming Trans-Specific Harm in Mental Health
Apr 27, 2022
Nicholas Haslam - Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences
Apr 13, 2022
Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay - The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us
Apr 06, 2022
Sera Davidow - Trusting People as Experts of Themselves
Mar 30, 2022
Lynne Layton - The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture
Mar 09, 2022
Dana Becker - The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering
Feb 16, 2022
Michael Hengartner – Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription
Feb 02, 2022
Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention
Jan 25, 2022
Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Jan 19, 2022
Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society
Jan 12, 2022
For Life - Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs Premieres on Jan 15
Jan 08, 2022
Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back
Dec 22, 2021
Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia - Emotional CPR - Heart-Centered Peer Support
Nov 24, 2021
Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn - How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart
Nov 17, 2021
Renee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine
Nov 10, 2021
Giovanni Fava - A Different Psychiatry is Possible
Nov 03, 2021
Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?
Oct 27, 2021
Shira Collings - New Perspectives on Eating Disorders
Oct 16, 2021
Helena Hansen - Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry
Oct 13, 2021
Matcheri Keshavan and Raquelle Mesholam-Gately - Why Some Experts and Patients Want to Rename Schizophrenia
Sep 29, 2021
Jim van Os and Peter Groot - When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCTs Fall Short
Aug 27, 2021
Ursula Read - Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion
Aug 25, 2021
Michael Ungar - Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience
Jul 28, 2021
Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering
Jul 10, 2021
Marcela Ot'alora - MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility
Jul 09, 2021
Michelle Funk - WHO and the Sea Change in Mental Health
Jun 12, 2021
Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry
Jun 09, 2021
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Post Withdrawal Experiences
May 28, 2021
Hannah Pickard - Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities
May 26, 2021
Katrina Michelle - Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing
May 12, 2021
Hannah Zeavin - Questioning the Moral Panic Around Teletherapy
Apr 28, 2021
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Exploring the Science
Apr 26, 2021
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health
Apr 17, 2021
Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Apr 14, 2021
Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?
Mar 31, 2021
Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Mar 17, 2021
Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Mar 13, 2021
Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment
Feb 27, 2021
Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives
Feb 24, 2021
Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research
Feb 13, 2021
Janice Haaken - Trauma and Mental Health in Social Movements
Feb 10, 2021
Howard Glasser - The Nurtured Heart Approach
Feb 06, 2021
Lucas Richert - Psychiatry and the Counterculture
Jan 27, 2021
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Setting the Scene
Jan 18, 2021
Trailer - Online Town Hall - Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Jan 11, 2021
Thomas Teo - Fascist Subjectivity and the Subhuman
Jan 06, 2021
Piers Gooding - Psychosocial Disability Rights and Digital Mental Health
Dec 23, 2020
Jennifer White - Rethinking Suicide Prevention
Nov 25, 2020
Tanya Luhrmann - How Culture Influences Voice Hearing
Nov 13, 2020
Adele Framer - Surviving Antidepressants
Nov 01, 2020
Natalie Campo - Can We Move Toward Mindful Medicine?
Oct 14, 2020
Kirk Schneider - Leading Psychology in Existential Times
Sep 23, 2020
Rhonda Speight - I Found My Lion's Roar - Combining Peer Support and Open Dialogue
Sep 19, 2020
Stuart Shipko - SSRI Withdrawal: Shooting the Odds
Sep 12, 2020
Jodi Aman - Anxiety, I'm So Done with You
Sep 05, 2020
Nikolas Rose - Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become
Aug 19, 2020
Jussi Valtonen - How to Know What We Don’t Know
Jul 29, 2020
Claudia Gold - Embrace the Messiness!
Jul 18, 2020
Ian Tucker - Mental Health and Emotion in the Digital Age
Jul 15, 2020
Baylissa Frederick - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020
Jul 11, 2020
Jim Wright - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020
Jul 11, 2020
Angela Peacock - Medicating Normal
Jul 05, 2020
Awais Aftab - Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry
Jul 03, 2020
John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the Evidence From Clinical Trials Justify its Continued Use?
Jun 13, 2020
Scott Greenspan - Exercise for Youth Mental Health in the Lockdown
Jun 10, 2020
Dainius Pūras - Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care
May 27, 2020
Sunil Bhatia - When Psychology Speaks for You, Without You
May 15, 2020
Nicole Beurkens – What If This Pandemic Is the Best Thing to Happen to Children with Challenges?
May 09, 2020
MIA Town Hall 1 - Are We Living in the Most Dialogical Time Ever?
Apr 29, 2020
Sam Himelstein - The Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing on Adolescents
Apr 25, 2020
Ian Puppe - Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing
Apr 18, 2020
Mab Segrest - Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens
Apr 15, 2020
Paula Caplan - Listen to a Veteran
Mar 21, 2020
MIA Report - Medication-Free Treatment in Norway - A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage
Mar 14, 2020
Ian Parker - Psychology is Not What You Think
Mar 11, 2020
Beatrice Birch - Inner Fire and Soul Health
Mar 07, 2020
Laysha Ostrow - Live and Learn
Feb 26, 2020
Peter Statsny - Reimagining Psychiatry
Feb 19, 2020
Sarah Kamens and Peter Kinderman - Moving Mental Health Work Away From Diagnosis
Feb 12, 2020
David Joslin – Remedy Alpine, Giving Veterans the Power to Seek Personal Discovery
Feb 09, 2020
John Read - UK Esketamine Approval - Not so Fast
Feb 01, 2020
Wendy Dolin - Making Akathisia a Household Word
Jan 25, 2020
MIA Report - The Whistleblower and Penn - A Final Accounting of Study 352
Jan 22, 2020
Amanda Burrill - Self-Advocacy and Self-Belief – Escaping Psychiatric Drugs
Jan 18, 2020
Anthony Ryan Hatch - The Management of Captive Populations with Psychiatric Drugs
Jan 15, 2020
Mary Watkins - Opening Doors in the Borderlands
Jan 08, 2020
Peter Mayfield - Healing Youth with Nature and Connection
Dec 22, 2019
Peter Breggin and Michael Cornwall - Stop the Psychiatric Abuse of Children
Dec 14, 2019
Psychological Support for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Dec 04, 2019
Celia Brown - On Human Rights and Surviving Race
Nov 20, 2019
Lindsay Church – Military Mental Health – From the Brink and the Journey to Recovery
Nov 18, 2019
Dorothy Dundas - Survivorship, Resistance, and Connection
Oct 26, 2019
Joseph Gone - When Healing Looks Like Justice
Oct 18, 2019
Steven C Hayes - A Liberated Mind
Oct 05, 2019
Jenny Freeman - Climate Change, Mental Health and Collective Action
Oct 04, 2019
IIPDW - Carina Håkansson and John Read
Oct 02, 2019
Peter Kinderman - Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care
Sep 28, 2019
Zhiying Ma - Recuperating the Social Person in China
Sep 23, 2019
Ben Furman - Understanding and Dealing With Adolescent Rage
Sep 14, 2019
Dan Hurd - One Pedal at a Time
Sep 07, 2019
Lillian Comas-Diaz - Addressing the Roots of Racial Trauma
Aug 14, 2019
Derek Blumke – The Mad in America Veterans Initiative
Aug 07, 2019
Craig Wiener - ADHD, A Return to Psychology
Aug 03, 2019
Pat Bracken - Toward a Critical Self-Reflective Psychiatry
Aug 02, 2019
Diana Kopua - Learning a Different Way
Jul 18, 2019
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 1
Jul 11, 2019
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2019 - Part 2
Jul 11, 2019
Lucy Johnstone - The Creation of a Conceptual Alternative to the DSM
Jul 03, 2019
Lee Coleman - Breaking Out of the Circle - Creating a Non-violent Revolution
Jun 22, 2019
Felicity Thomas and Richard Byng - Poverty, Pathology and Pills
Jun 12, 2019
Adriane Fugh-Berman - Getting Pharma Out of Medical Education
Jun 05, 2019
David Cohen - Mad Science, Psychiatric Coercion and the Therapeutic State
May 15, 2019
John Read - Fighting for the Meaning of Madness
May 08, 2019
Lee Coleman – The Insanity Defence, Storytelling on the Witness Stand
Apr 20, 2019
Jonathan Raskin - Constructing Alternatives to the DSM
Apr 17, 2019
Kelly Brogan - The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health
Apr 13, 2019
Vance Trudeau - Antidepressant Exposure Across Generations
Apr 03, 2019
Lee Coleman - The Reign of Error
Mar 23, 2019
Mark Horowitz - Peer-Support Groups Were Right, Guidelines Were Wrong - Tapering Off Antidepressants
Mar 20, 2019
Gail Hornstein - First-Person Accounts of Madness and Global Mental Health
Mar 14, 2019
Alita Taylor - Open Dialogue - Making Meaning
Feb 16, 2019
Jim van Os - Towards Resilience and Possibilities and Away from Diseases and Symptoms
Jan 26, 2019
Darcia Narvaez - Reclaiming Humanity
Dec 21, 2018
Will Davies - The Happiness Industry
Nov 17, 2018
Sandy Steingard - Anatomy of a Psychiatrist
Nov 10, 2018
Derek Summerfield - Moving Global Mental Health "Outside Our Heads"
Oct 27, 2018
China Mills - Global Mental Health - Coloniality, Technology and Medicalization
Oct 24, 2018
Jhilmil Breckenridge and Bhargavi Davar - Global Mental Health - An Old System Wearing New Clothes
Oct 20, 2018
Melissa Raven - The Global Mental Health Movement - Cause for Concern
Oct 10, 2018
Zach Bush - Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind
Oct 04, 2018
John Read and Sue Cunliffe - The 57th Maudsley Debate - This House Believes that ECT has no Place in Modern Medicine
Oct 01, 2018
Conflicts of Interest Questioned in Review of Prescribed Drug Dependence
Aug 21, 2018
Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition, Mental Health and TED
Jul 28, 2018
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 2 - Robert Whitaker
Jul 11, 2018
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2018 - Part 1 - Nicole Lamberson, Josef Witt-Doerring, Chris Paige
Jul 11, 2018
Peter Groot and Akansha Vaswani - Tapering Strips and Shared Decision-Making
Jul 06, 2018
Sami Timimi and John Read - Latest Developments with The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists
Jun 19, 2018
Peter Gordon - Addressing the Divide Between the Arts and Medical Sciences
May 17, 2018
Sera Davidow - Intersections Between Sexual Violence and Psychiatric Abuse
May 12, 2018
Laura Delano - Connecting people through the Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project
May 03, 2018
John Read - UK Royal College of Psychiatry Refuses to Retract Misleading Statement about Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dismisses Complaint
May 02, 2018
Jeffrey Michael Friedman - Trauma and Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Apr 14, 2018
Russell Razzaque: Breaking Down Is Waking Up
Apr 09, 2018
Duncan Double - On Being a Critical Psychiatrist
Mar 17, 2018
Tina Minkowitz - The Abolition of Forced Psychiatric Interventions
Mar 10, 2018
John Read - The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and Antidepressant Withdrawal
Mar 09, 2018
Lucy Johnstone - The Power Threat Meaning Framework
Mar 05, 2018
Joanna Moncrieff - Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants
Mar 03, 2018
Michael Fontaine - What the Ancient World can Teach us About Emotional Distress
Feb 17, 2018
Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions
Jan 27, 2018
Kelli Foulkrod - Integrating Yoga with Psychotherapy
Jan 20, 2018
Jennifer Bahr - Treating the Whole Person
Jan 06, 2018
Sir Robin Murray - Reframing Psychotic Illness
Dec 23, 2017
Celia Brown - Surviving Psychiatry
Dec 16, 2017
Chris Hansen - Making Connections Through Intentional Peer Support
Dec 09, 2017
George Atwood - Shattered Worlds, the Experience of Personal Annihilation
Dec 02, 2017
Noel Hunter and Brett Francis - Diagnosis, Empowerment and Equality
Nov 25, 2017
Joseph Firth - The Role of Exercise and Nutrition in Early Psychosis
Nov 18, 2017
Jay Joseph - Why Schizophrenia Genetic Research is Running on Empty
Nov 11, 2017
David Healy - Seeking a Cure for Protracted, Medication-related Sexual Dysfunction
Nov 04, 2017
Gordon Warme - The Relationship Between Culture and Psychiatric ‘Disorders’
Oct 28, 2017
David Mielke - Educating in the era of the psychiatric diagnosis
Oct 21, 2017
Olga Runciman - Moving Beyond Psychiatry
Oct 14, 2017
Bonnie Burstow and Nick Walker - An Introduction to Cognitive Liberty
Oct 07, 2017
Michael O’Loughlin - Exploring Narrative Approaches to Psychological Distress
Sep 30, 2017
Irving Kirsch - The Placebo Effect and What It Tells Us About Antidepressant Efficacy
Sep 23, 2017
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 2)
Sep 18, 2017
John Read - What the Science and Evidence Tell Us About Electroshock (ECT)
Sep 09, 2017
Bob Fiddaman - Taking on the Pharmaceutical Regulators and the Seroxat Scandal
Sep 02, 2017
Peter Breggin - The Conscience of Psychiatry (Part 1)
Aug 20, 2017
Rani Bora - Innate Health and Resilience, How It Differs to Mainstream Psychiatric Treatment
Aug 19, 2017
Jim van Os - Rethinking Biological Psychiatry
Aug 11, 2017
Kermit Cole - Dialogical Approaches to Extreme States
Aug 05, 2017
Pratima Singh - Exploring Alternatives to Biological Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2017
Monica Cassani - Achieving Health in Body, Mind and Spirit
Jul 22, 2017
Will Hall - A Harm Reduction Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Jul 15, 2017
World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2017 - Raising Global Understanding
Jul 11, 2017
Mo Hannah - Changing the Teaching of the Biological Model
Jul 08, 2017
Jim Gottstein - Patient Rights in Mental Healthcare
Jun 30, 2017