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Dec 4, 2012
Madness Radio - Book and New Episodes Kickstarter Campaign
What does it mean to be called crazy in a crazy world? Help us publish a book of interviews and produce new FM radio episodes!
The human voice tells a powerful story.
Madness Radio: Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health is an FM radio show syndicated on the Pacifica network and heard on community stations around the US and online. Since 2005 Madness Radio has explored the question "What does it mean to be called 'crazy' in a crazy world?" through powerful and provocative in-depth interviews. More than 125 shows have aired since Madness Radio began, featuring survivors of bipolar, schizophrenia, and psychosis diagnosis, as well as human rights activists, journalists, advocates, and artists.
Madness Radio believes that personal storytelling and thoughtful conversation are powerful ways to create change. Listening to each show conveys an urgently needed message: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
This is Madness Radio's first fundraising campaign! We need your support to produce 12 new episodes for 2013 -- as well as publish a book of Madness Radio interviews.
THE BOOK
Madness Radio has reached hundreds of thousands of people -- and now a Madness Radio book can reach even more people. We need to transcribe interviews, edit the text, design and print the books, distribute them, and outreach across the US and internationally to get the word out.
Some of the interview topics include alternatives to medication, exposing psychiatric abuse, living with suicidal feelings, what is Mad Pride, healing trauma, pharmaceutical company scandals, Open Dialogue, electroshock, the Hearing Voices movement, Soteria House, shamanism, poetry, autism, mad science, breaking the silence of sexual abuse, being transgender, the DSM, racism, activist history, abolishing prisons, and much, much more. Past guests include Robert Whitaker, Susan McKeown, Daniel Fisher, Leah Harris, Dr. Peter Breggin, Gary Greenberg, Daniel Hazen, Rufus May, Jm Gottstein, Alisha Ali, Jacqui Dillon, Ron Coleman, and Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. Each interview will include an introductory essay by Will Hall.
12 MORE EPISODES IN 2013
Since 2005 Madness Radio has grown beyond an all-volunteer effort; today we can't continue without support. To produce 12 new episodes for 2013 our budget includes part-time technical director Leah Harris, outreach and promotion to FM stations around the country, development costs on the website, new tools for social media integration, new audio gear, and upgraded software. A sneak preview of upcoming topics includes parenting alternatives, getting off disability, the power of the placebo effect, new learning about nutrition, living with paranoia, interpreting dreams, environmental psychology, and innovative views of addiction.
"I did extensive research for my album Singing In The Dark, and when I discovered Madness radio I knew i had found what I was looking for. Through Madness Radio I met a wonderful community of people doing exciting work in mental health recovery."
-- Susan McKeown, Grammy-winning singer songwriter
"Madness Radio is a dose of sanity in a world of pharmaceutical company propaganda. Will has dedicated himself for years and the result is a very high quality show that reaches new people every day with a vision of change. This is an effort that really deserves your support!"
--Oryx Cohen, Director of the National Empowerment Center Technical Assistance Center
"Madness Radio became my 'daily antidepressant' during my recovery process. Each episode gave me hope and was an amazing antidote to the despair provided by far too many of my doctors. Madness Radio remains critical in my ongoing journey through trauma and healing."
-- Meaghan Buisson, inline speed skating world record holder and 47-time Canadian national champion
RISKS AND CHALLENGESLearn about accountability on Kickstarter
Madness Radio has a solid track record of completing episodes and getting them out to the listening public. With the addition of Leah Harris as Technical Director we are in a strong position to produce 12 new episodes in 2013. The book project is ambitious, but our team of transcribers has already completed 8 interviews and is ready to continue. Entering the book world is not new -- the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, written by Madness Radio host Will Hall, has been distributed widely in the peer recovery movement. With an active network of listeners and supporters -- including YOU -- the Madness Radio book can overcome the challenges of print publishing and reach whole new audiences.
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Nov 6, 2012
Hearing Voices in Accra and Chennai: How Culture Makes A Difference to Psychiatric Experience
via Neuroanthropology blog at PLOS Blogs
Tanya Luhrmann, hearing voices in Accra and Chenai by Greg Downey here
via The Wilson Quarterly Beyond the Brain by Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Update 1-16-2013 via Ruminations on Madness
Return of the Social: Rewriting the recent history of schizophrenia
"I’ve long felt a certain ambivalence regarding Tanya Luhrmann’s work on psychosis (see, e.g., a much earlier post here). Part of my frustration stems from Luhrmann’s disconnect, so far as I can tell, from the complexities of the user/survivor movement, and part from disappointment that the tremendous potential latent in her topics of choice—potential, above all, to inject psychiatric discourse with the theoretical nuance I otherwise associate with contemporary medical anthropology—is so rarely realized. Luhrmann’s latest commentary—an informal piece on the recent history of schizophrenia treatment, presumably targeting educated non-specialists—unfortunately only intensifies my frustration (and more than a touch of righteous anger) with her work. Instead of careful attention to cracks and discontinuities, to politics and the machinations of neoliberalism, Luhrmann sets out to tell what amounts to a surprisingly classic (and even more surprisingly uninformed) metanarrative of the ‘necessary progress’ of knowledge and freedom—knowledge advanced by scholars, and freedom, of course, for schizophrenia patients. (Progress, admittedly, that is (always?) also a return to as Luhrmann puts it, “an older, wiser understanding of the mind and body.”) Here are a few of my complaints:
Bio-bio-bio…..gone?
"Luhrmann’s noticeably Hegelian rendering of the history of the modern psychiatric treatment of schizophrenia goes approximately like this: for much of the early 20th century, American psychiatrists attributed the development of schizophrenia to poor mothering, and turned to primarily psychosocial therapies informed by psychoanalysis. The 1980s, in contrast, marked the introduction of an “antithetical” discourse—biomedical psychiatry, peaking with the “decade of the brain” in the 90s—followed more recently by the synthetic ‘return of the social’. In a particularly memorable line—one that would stun both my activist and mental health services researcher colleagues—Luhrmann announces, “It is now clear that the simple biomedical approach to serious psychiatric illnesses has failed… At least, the bold dream that these maladies would be understood as brain disorders with clearly identifiable genetic causes and clear, targeted pharmacological interventions…has faded into the mist.” That the decade of the brain oversold itself and that biopsychiatry has—as for the last half century at a minimum—been strongly contested by activists, as well social and community psychologists and psychiatrists, is undeniable. That biopsychiatry has “faded in to the mist”…? Let me attempt to unpack a few of the complexities Luhrmann ignores." read here
May 3, 2012
Suzanne Beachy - What's Next For The Truth
Suzanne Beachy/ What's Next for the truth
Any diagnosis of mental illness results in a complicated and uncertain fate for those it strikes. When you lose a son as a result of such a diagnosis, it ignites a search for answers. Suzanne Beachy has gained a perspective on life as a result of her loss but is still asking, what is the truth?
About Suzanne:
A mom since 1980, Suzanne Beachy began packing school lunches for her son Jake in 1986. Twenty-four years later, she is still packing school lunches for her young kids, Natalie and Collin. In addition to the usual mommish duties of cleaning up messes and attending to the needs of young digestive systems, Suzanne has worked for pay as a music librarian, bass player, stage hand, professional letter writer and copy editor, and as a partner in her husband Tim's building business. Every other Friday, she works for free as a lunch lady at her kids' school.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
Any diagnosis of mental illness results in a complicated and uncertain fate for those it strikes. When you lose a son as a result of such a diagnosis, it ignites a search for answers. Suzanne Beachy has gained a perspective on life as a result of her loss but is still asking, what is the truth?
About Suzanne:
A mom since 1980, Suzanne Beachy began packing school lunches for her son Jake in 1986. Twenty-four years later, she is still packing school lunches for her young kids, Natalie and Collin. In addition to the usual mommish duties of cleaning up messes and attending to the needs of young digestive systems, Suzanne has worked for pay as a music librarian, bass player, stage hand, professional letter writer and copy editor, and as a partner in her husband Tim's building business. Every other Friday, she works for free as a lunch lady at her kids' school.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
Aug 6, 2011
Two Stories from the today's Irish Examiner by Jennifer Hough
Finding a path to recovery
MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: Irish Examiner Special Investigation
Saturday, August 06, 2011
In the second part of our series on mental health, Jennifer Hough meets a young woman who found a way to stop the voices in her head
MICHELLE DALTON first began hearing voices when she was about 12 years old. At first she thought it was normal, and tried to ignore them, but as she got older it became more and more difficult to push them to the back of her mind.
"It was not unusual to me that I heard voices so I didn’t tell anyone, but I was very self destructive — I had bad mood swings and finally after years not wanting to admit something was wrong, I erupted and realised I really needed to do something about it."
"It was not unusual to me that I heard voices so I didn’t tell anyone, but I was very self destructive — I had bad mood swings and finally after years not wanting to admit something was wrong, I erupted and realised I really needed to do something about it."
Read more: here.
Bridging the divide between one reality and another
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Talking and listening is a huge part of helping people diagnosed with schizophrenia, discovers Jennifer Hough who meets a man who knows all about it
BRIAN HARTNETT has been hearing voices for about 20 years. They are more or less with him all the time, and it is simply a part of life, he says.
He describes it like "sharing a house with people". Sometimes it can be quiet and at other times it can be noisy.
He describes it like "sharing a house with people". Sometimes it can be quiet and at other times it can be noisy.
Read more: here.
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