Understanding Borderline Trauma: Rita Marshall
Why are so many trauma survivors, especially women, diagnosed “borderline?” Is the label useful — or sexist and degrading? How can people who live through intergenerational violence be understood and...
View ArticleMedical Coercion: Tomi Gomory
If madness isn’t like other illnesses, what is it? Should psychiatry have the power of legal coercion? How can the legacy of Thomas Szasz inform new ways of helping people? Tomi Gomory, associate...
View ArticleHealing Connection | Lauren Spiro
How do we recover from childhood violence? When Lauren Spiro was 14, her father was murdered. Eighteen months later, she began to have unusual spiritual experiences and was diagnosed with...
View ArticleCommunicating With Psychosis | Dina Tyler
Are there ways to reach people in states of madness? How do talking with ghosts, hearing voices, and seeing visions — as well as enduring family turmoil — relate to psychotic crisis? When Dina Tyler...
View ArticleNew Vision for Psychiatry | Jim van Os | Madness Radio
What if psychiatry recognized that schizophrenia does not exist? How might diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era) be replaced by spectrums of experience that show how psychotic...
View ArticleRedefining Research: Nev Jones
What if researchers collaborated with patients rather than treating them as “informants” and objects of study? Nev Jones survived her mother’s frightening extreme states — and then her own mind...
View ArticleLegacy of R.D. Laing | Michael Guy Thompson | Madness Radio
Is psychosis a journey and a breakthrough to somewhere more authentic? Should unhappy people be made to adjust to a mad society? Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing was a fierce critic of the mental...
View ArticleQueer Teen Pregnancy | Nina Packebush | Madness Radio
What’s it like to be a teenager in a psychiatric hospital? What’s it like to be a queer pregnant teenager? And is it true that friends do make the best medicine? Nina Packebush explores these questions...
View ArticleCompassionate Psychotherapy | Olga Runciman | Madness Radio
How is psychotherapy different when the therapist is also a survivor? What vital lessons must therapists learn from people who have experienced psychosis? If therapy is an imbalance of power between...
View ArticleDecolonizing Early Psychosis | Rachel Jane Liebert | Madness Radio
Do early psychosis programs serve healing – or function as surveillance and control? Are treatments for paranoia actually themselves forms of paranoia, based on scientific racism and white supremacy?...
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