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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Mars 202540min
Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology
Jeff Sugarman is a distinguished scholar in theoretical and philosophical psychology, known for his work examining the psychology of selfhood, human agency, and the sociopolitical underpinnings of psy...
19 Mars 202553min
"Dad, Something's Not Right. I Need Help"- Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I'm the author of May Cause Side Effects. Today, I'm here with Rick Fee, president of the Richard Fee Foundation. Rick joins us to ta...
5 Mars 202547min
