Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
The Mad in America podcast is sponsored this week by Drs Rani and Suraj Holistic Psychiatry and Mental Health Coaching. Are you Ready to make a lasting change in your life? Then join Dr Rani Bora's 12...
18 Jan 202337min
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway's "Medication-Free" Hospital Survive?
In December 2019, we wrote about the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center, which is a private psychiatric hospital located about forty minutes north of Oslo, on the banks of stunning Lake Hurdal. The hospital...
11 Jan 202348min
Ten Years of Rocking the Boat - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
Today we are continuing with our look behind the scenes of Mad in America for our 200th podcast. Mad in America got started in January 2012 and so to celebrate a decade of critical comment and apprais...
21 Des 20221h 11min
Changing Narratives - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work
This week is a special one for us at Mad in America, as it's the 200th episode of our podcast. Our first interview was with attorney and author of Zyprexa Papers, Jim Gottstein, back in July 2017. For...
14 Des 20221h 12min
Art and Transformation - Creating Justice in Mental Health Care
Madness: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health is an upcoming conference created by the Disruption Network Lab. The Lab examines the intersection of politics, technology and society, exposing the misc...
23 Nov 20221h
David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy
On the Mad in America podcast this wweek we are joined by renowned psychopharmacologist Dr David Healy. David is a psychiatrist, scientist and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wa...
16 Nov 202258min
Morgan Shields - Breaking Academia's Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry
Morgan Shields is one of the few health policy researchers who focuses on quality of care and issues of coercion within inpatient psychiatry. Her research exposes how current healthcare settings are i...
9 Nov 20221h
Anders Sørensen - Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice
This week we are sharing a special interview that's being done as part of World Tapering Day. World Tapering Day is being held on the 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2022 and it aims to raise global awar...
5 Nov 202238min
