It's Not Just In Your Head

Max & Harriet speak to Renee A. Schuls-Jacobson about her book 'Psychiatrized: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine'. "When a trusted physician tells Renée Schuls-Jacobson that he has the  solution for her chronic insomnia -- a “tried and true medication  without any side effects,” she believes him. For seven years, she takes  her clonazepam exactly as prescribed until, one day, she learns that her  doctor is wrong: long-term benzodiazepine use causes all kinds of  problems including profound changes in brain function. With the  help of an addiction specialist, Renée embarks on a slow, medically  supervised taper, only to find herself cognitively scrambled and stuck  in the nightmare of benzodiazepine withdrawal." Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: Psychiatrized: Waking Up After a Decade of Bad Medicine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LGVZ7V1/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_glt_fabc_AGAVK5PKNVPMKBB7TPMS?linkCode=ml1&tag=rasj-20 Audible version: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B09M28N5CZ&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp Instagram at @rasjacobson and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rasjacobsonart For artwork or information about classes: http://www.rasjacobson.store For information about receiving emotional support coaching while withdrawing from psychiatric medications: https://www.rasjacobson.store/features/ ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Max, Harriet and Liam talk with one of two authors about a new book 'Psychoanalysis & Revolution', exploring the different 'psy' disciplines and what makes Psychoanalysis a potentially liberating practice. "This manifesto is an argument for connecting social transformation with personal liberation, showing that the two aspects of profound change can be intimately linked together using psychoanalysis. The manifesto explores what lies beyond us, what we keep repeating, what pushes and pulls us to stay the same and to change, and how those phenomena are transferred into clinical space." Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: Psychoanalysis and Revolution by Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar: https://www.1968press.co.uk/books/psychoanalysis-revolution 1968 Press Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/1968Press ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Harriet examines 'The World Happiness Report 2021'  and why America, one of the richest countries in the world, is ranked 19th. What are the other countries doing right? Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: The World Happiness Report 2021: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/ The Nordic Theory of Everything, Anu Partanen, Harper 2016 The Addams Family Values Thanksgiving scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29XhRfrfsOk ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Harriet takes a deep dive into the events of Striketober and the hope it offers. Harriet & Liam also discuss the issues raised in the Medium article 'Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?'. Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Show notes: Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?: https://aninjusticemag.com/why-are-americans-and-conservatives-so-afraid-of-socialism-33409294290 Rainbow Pie book: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/rainbow-pie-a-memoir-of-redneck-america/9781846272585 Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism book: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/deaths-of-despair-and-the-future-of-capitalism/9780691217079 Dressing like all the the other car salesmen (misremembered as Estate Agents / Realtors in the recording): https://www.unz.com/isteve/classic-from-files-why-do-car-salesmen/ How Politics makes Us Sick,  Ted Schrecker, Clare Bambra Palgrave, 2015 The Body Economic, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu. Basic Books, 2013 Loneliness, John Cacciopo and William Patrick, Norton 2008 ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Do you ever take on so much activist work that you become physically or  emotionally sick? Begin to hate everyone around you for not 'throwing  down' into the cause as much as you? Notice yourself becoming more and  more bitter, fantasizing about exiting the movement permanently and  becoming a Wall Street Banker because who cares, nothing matters, we're  all gonna die anyway?  Max does a solocast episode about activist  burnout, splits himself into two people, and does a lot of deep  breathing.    Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Preventing Burnout: https://effectiveactivist.com/movements/burnout/ Audre Lorde Thought of Self-Care as an “Act of Political Warfare” https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/audre-lorde-thought-self-care-act-political-warfare ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Max and Liam interview Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos, professor of psychology at University of Toronto to talk about indigenous resistance, critical suicidology and more. What are the historical and structural forces that have led to such high suicide rates within indigenous populations? Is the mainstream symptom model of psychology appropriate to understand this phenomenon, and suicide in general? Why are native and white male suicide rates so high (do privilege and oppression possibly come with similar psychic costs)? What kinds of "interventions" are effective in treating suicide, or are interventionist, individualistically focused approaches part of the problem? Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. Dr. Ansloos' resources: Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffreyansloos The Medicine of Peace - Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-medicine-of-peace A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13634593211046845 NDN Coping Mechanisms: https://houseofanansi.com/products/ndn-coping-mechanisms A History of My Brief Body: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/604086/a-history-of-my-brief-body-by-billy-ray-belcourt/9780735237780 In Defense of the Wastelands: https://moontimewarrior.com/2017/02/08/in-defense-of-the-wastelands-guts-magazine/ ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

David Cobb (he/him) is a "people's lawyer" who has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He is the Executive Director of Cooperation Humboldt and Co-Coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network.   Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. More info:  cooperationhumboldt.com ussen.org ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Carissa Roberts emailed us and volunteered her own life experiences for a case conceptualization episode using the liberation health model. In this episode we discussed the various problems with the prevailing diagnostic and conceptualization systems in mental health, then use the liberation health triangle to try (scratching the surface of) understanding Carissa's life story and struggles. See a rough sketch using the LHM triangle here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7gcIymrqCfGsOCzgI4WadCp3W7BWVSC/view?usp=sharing More on the liberation health model here: http://www.liberationhealth.org/documents/s12.pdf Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Jason Myles & Pascal Roberts, from the THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast join us to talk about black trauma from a political economy and Marxist perspective. Jason and Pascal had Catherine Liu on their show recently to talk specifically about "black trauma spectacle" ongoing within the culture industry, liberal media, and other areas of American society. We asked them what they thought more broadly about the concept of black trauma, racial trauma, intergenerational trauma, and what kind of "treatment plan" is needed to remedy the suffering of those who may suffer under capitalism more disproportionately than others. More therapy for racialized peoples? Reparations and other "race first" programs? So-called "class reductionist" politics? Also, should Harriet compliment men's balls?   Listen to more of Jason and Pascal on their podcast "THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast: at thisisrevolutionpodcast.com Jason & Pascal's book references: James Foreman Jr- Locking Up Our Own Janice Peck- The Age of Oprah neoliberal Icon Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.

Max interviews Harriet about an article she wrote in 2008 ago called Toiling In The Field Of Emotion, published in Class Struggle on the Home Front. He asks her: what is emotional labor? How does the concept fit into Marxian economic analysis of economy and relationships? Why has the concept been repressed in Marxist circles? Toiling In The Field of Emotion: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230246997_6 Still faced experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmE3NfB_HhE&ab_channel=UMassBoston Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access  to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message:  This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of  the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical  advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any  health decisions or management.