Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling
Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles ...
19 Aug 49min
The West Doesn't Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh Bhugra
Dinesh Bhugra is a leading voice in social and cultural psychiatry. He is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King's College London and has served as president of the Royal ...
12 Aug 36min
Go/No Go - How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Marianne Apostolides
Marianne Apostolides is the award-winning author of eight books, four of which have been translated and published internationally. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winne...
29 Jul 48min
Unlearn Your Pain: Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity – A Conversation With Howard Schubiner
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of the award-winning memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects. Today, I'm excited to have Dr. Howa...
15 Jul 41min
The Empire of Madness: Why Psychiatry Must Rethink Human Suffering - An Interview with Khameer Kidia
Khameer Kidia is a physician and an anthropologist, works at Harvard Medical School and the University of Zimbabwe, and spends his life between Washington DC and Harare. Kidia has many accolades to hi...
8 Jul 48min
A Mother's Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing
Chelsea McVeigh began her journey with psychiatric medications at 16, never imagining where it would lead. At 31, during a new pregnancy, she suffered a severe adverse reaction that turned her world u...
1 Jul 24min
Using Lived Experience to Challenge Systemic Prescriber Inexperience in Antidepressant Withdrawal
Carla Delgado is a San Diego native with eight years of experience in healthcare and a master's in healthcare administration. She also has a personal story of SSRI withdrawal, and we discuss how her b...
24 Jun 27min
Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen
Jussi Valtonen is a neuropsychologist, an adjunct researcher with the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), a professor of writing at the University of the Arts Helsinki, and a col...
10 Jun 49min
