Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health
This episode of "Mad in the Family" discusses the links between nutrition and mental health, and the science that's showing that diet may help improve or even prevent mental health issues in children ...
17 Apr 202156min
Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Anne Guy is a member of the council for evidence-based psychiatry (CEP) and works with the secretariat for the All-party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence. She's the lead editor and a...
14 Apr 202146min
Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?
Peter Sterling, now retired from the University of Pennsylvania, is a well-known neuroscientist, having co-authored a popular text, Principles of Neural Design. He is a lifelong political activist, an...
31 Mars 202150min
Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology
Bethany Morris is an assistant professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches and does theoretical and qualitative research. Dr. Morris is a transdisci...
17 Mars 202132min
Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
This week on the MIA podcast, we discuss a recent paper that considers the support provided by online support groups when people seek help for psychiatric drug withdrawal. The paper is entitled 'The r...
13 Mars 202152min
Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment
Actor, singer, writer, and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy is goddaughter of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and daughter of the Reverend Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, King's best fr...
27 Feb 202153min
Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives
Helen Spandler is a Professor of Mental Health Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She is the managing editor of Asylum, a non-profit radical mental health magazine. She current...
24 Feb 202147min
Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research
This week on the Mad in America podcast we turn our attention to prescription-drug-induced akathisia and joining me to discuss this is Jill Nickens. Jill is the president and founder of the Akathisia ...
13 Feb 202137min
