A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment
Nelson Lee is a therapist and mental skills coach with a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling and an MBA. In 2024, he attempted to get off antidepressants that he'd been on for 15 year...
11 Jun 202546min
"Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands" Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service
Paulo del Vecchio is a person in long-term recovery from mental health and addictions, who has been a leader in the peer recovery movement for 40 years. He recently completed a 30-year career at the U...
4 Jun 202539min
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Laurence Kirmayer is one of the most influential figures in cultural psychiatry today. A psychiatrist, researcher, and theorist, he serves as James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Soc...
21 Mai 202537min
Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…
Hello, my name is Bob Whitaker, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Kermit Cole. We'll be speaking about a philosophical enterprise that Kermit is now deeply engaged in. That is, broadly sp...
7 Mai 202536min
Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth
Welcome to this Mad in America podcast. My name is Robert Whitaker, and I'm happy today to have the pleasure of speaking with Joanna Moncrieff. Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the Nationa...
30 Apr 202549min
Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy
On the Mad in America podcast this week, Brooke Siem, author of May Cause Side Effects, talks with Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz about their journey from working in the prison system to challenging co...
16 Apr 202548min
Psychology's Small Stories and the Call of the Other: An Interview with David Goodman
David Goodman is the Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics and the Dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College, where he also teaches in the Department ...
9 Apr 202543min
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava
Welcome to Mad In America Radio. My name is Bob Whitaker, and today my guest is Italian psychiatrist, Giovanni Fava. From 1992 to 2022, Dr. Fava edited the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. We...
26 Mar 202540min
