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Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health

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 leader in the peer recovery movement, a therapist in Portland, has a Diploma from Process Work Institute, and is the director of the support and education community Portland Hearing Voices.

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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Madness Radio on 04/04/16

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Dr. Raymond Tallis on Beyond Biological Reductionism

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Can people’s behavior really be explained by neuroscience and our evolutionary needs as hunter-gatherers — or is this just a popular fad? Does understanding the brain really solve the mysteries of being human? Neurologist Dr. Raymond Tallis, philosopher, Academy of Medical ... Read more

Abolishing the Term "Schizophrenia" with Psychiatry Professor Jim van Os

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Is schizophrenia a devastating brain disease that can be only cured by medication and psychotherapy? Or does psychosis exist on a spectrum, much like autism? What would happen if we abolished the mental health system as we know it today and replaced it with a system that he... Read more

Madness Radio on 03/07/16

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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When Medications for Emotional Problems Become Worse than the Problems Themselves

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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What do you do when medications for your emotional problems become worse than the problems themselves? Laura Delano went to a psychiatrist at age 18, and for the next decade was prescribed nineteen different psychiatric drugs. After devastating physical and emotional effect... Read more

Leah Harris on the Murphy Bill

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Host Will Hall speaks with Leah Harris, psychiatric abuse survivor and organizer in the Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy, about the Murphy Bill, which proposes some controversial changes in mental health policy.  The proposed Families in Mental Health Crisi... Read more

Economic Austerity and Mental Health | Mary O’Hara

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Is mental health about individual diseases, or the health of communities and countries as a whole? How do economic policies after the 2008 crisis impact disability rights, suicide rates, and community wellbeing? Are cuts in social spending really necessary for economic grow... Read more

Madness Radio on 10/05/15

Airs at: Mon, 10/05/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, on "The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment"

Airs at: Mon, 09/07/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Madness Radio presents Is bipolar disorder a disease? Can medications like lithium correct chemical imbalances and stabilize mood? Do psychiatric drugs act completely differently on the brain than recreational drugs? UK psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, author of The Myth ... Read more

Madness Radio on 08/03/15

Airs at: Mon, 08/03/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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