Ayahuasca Psychosis and Spiritual Awakening | Martha Sneyd | Madness Radio
After taking the psychedelic drug ayahuasca Martha Sneyd went into an extended altered state diagnosed as psychotic. Her terrifying ordeal ignited a spiritual initiation that eventually brought gifts...
View ArticleBreathwork for Bipolar and Psychosis | Sean Blackwell | Madness Radio
Do bipolar and psychosis have a healing potential blocked by suppression, medications, and avoidance? What if we could help people safely and intentionally explore, express, and understand these...
View ArticleAwakening as a Medium | Jyl Ion | Madness Radio
Jyl Ion hears voices, but she refuses to view these non-ordinary experiences as a sign of mental illness. Instead Jyl came off 16 years of multiple toxic medications, talks to her ancestor spirits and...
View ArticleA Little Crazy – Show Me All Your Scars | Susie Meserve | Madness Radio
At the Madness Radio book launch a few years ago writer and poet Susie Meserve read her creative nonfiction essay “A Little Crazy,” included in the anthology Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of...
View ArticleOddball Magazine w/ Will Hall | Jason Wright | Madness Radio
In this guest podcast, Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine sits down with Madness Radio host Will Hall, author of the Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, to discuss mental health...
View ArticleNothing About Us Without Us | Jay Mahler | Madness Radio
Jay Mahler was one of the originators of the psychiatric survivors movement in the 1960s, joining protests with the Free Speech Movement at the University of California Berkeley- the beginnings of...
View ArticleBicycles and Madness! | Nedra Deadwyler | Madness Radio
Nedra Deadwyler of Atlanta Georgia’s Civil Bikes interviews Madness Radio’s Will Hall about bicycles, mental health, and human liberation, for the KBOO FM Bicycle Show....
View ArticleSurvivors As Therapists | Jacks McNamara | Madness Radio
Can survivors be therapists – and even better at it? Jacks McNamara – poet, trauma healing coach, and co-founder of The Icarus Project – joins Will Hall to discuss the calling to became a...
View ArticleSchizophrenia Factory Christmas Story | Will Hall | Madness Radio
Just in time for the holidays, a chapter from Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness: “Christmas Vacation in the Schizophrenia Factory,” a personal account from Will Hall from a visit...
View ArticleLove Is a Skill | Laura-Marie & Jacks McNamara | Madness Radio
What does a life dedicated to love and freedom look like? Laura-Marie River Victor Peace Nopales joins co-hosts Jacks McNamara and Will Hall to explore the most important questions of all — by way of...
View ArticleMad Conversations | Erick Fabris | Madness Radio
What if we just started having conversations about how to help each other through hard times? And took the time needed to really have discussions and hear the experiences of mad people? Erick Fabris is...
View ArticlePsychedelic Therapy Abuse: Ending the Silence | Will Hall | Madness Radio
The essay from Mad In America Sept 2021 “Ending The Silence Around Psychedelic Therapy Abuse”, read by Will Hall: Michael Pollan’s hugely influential new book on psychedelic medicine, How to Change...
View ArticleTea with Spirit | Karin Jervert | Madness Radio
When Karin Jervert withdrew from 5 psychiatric medications the conflicting voices and forces in her head became pathways to art and spirit. Through Buddhism and earth-based ceremony Karin discovered a...
View ArticleAbolish Psychiatry | Vesper Moore | Madness Radio
Should we reform – or abolish – psychiatry? Can capitalism provide mental health, or do we need some kind of socialism or anti-capitalism? Vesper Moore is a leader in the youngest wave of the...
View ArticleConsent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness Radio
Read this book! Can there ever be any justification for discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities? Is denying equality before the law based on a...
View ArticleLyme And Dyskinesia | Monica Cassani | Madness Radio
Are trauma, medication injury, and holistic health connected? Does Lyme disease infection relate to tardive dyskinesia from psychiatric drugs? Is there a spiritual purpose to debilitating illness?...
View ArticleYouth Leadership | Felicity Krueger & Oryx Cohen | Madness Radio
Can teens lead their own mental health education? Are suicidal feelings and self harm “contagions” that young people shouldn’t talk about? How can mutual aid and peer support solve our youth mental...
View ArticleRethinking Therapy | Will Hall and Ryan Hofrichter | Madness Radio
Therapist Ryan Hofrichter flips the mic on Madness Radio host Will Hall for a wide-ranging discussion about madness, psychiatry, and being a therapist. Topics include power in therapy, psychiatric...
View ArticleFlight From Trauma | Paris Williams | Madness Radio
How does the terror of child abuse inspire the heights of spiritual awakening? Are risky behaviors with drugs and extreme sports also a search towards healing? Co-hosts Dina Tyler and Will Hall talk...
View ArticleUCSF Grand Rounds | Dina Tyler | Madness Radio
Dina Tyler’s FANTASTIC, heartful, brilliant December 2023 Grand Rounds talk at UCSF Medical School, “Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives.” Also...
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