Madness Radio

Riot Grrl instigator Bonfire Madigan Shive talks about her family, the mental health system, living outside the mainstream and her creative inspiration as a visionary musician. http://www.bonfiremadigan.comThe post Bonfire Madigan: Visionary Musician first appeared on Madness Radio.

Longtime Freedom Center ally Mt. Holyoke College Professor Gail Hornstein discusses first-person accounts of people who have lived through madness, and previews her upcoming book Agnes’s Jacket.The post Madness Survivor Voices with Gail Hornstein first appeared on Madness Radio.

UK psychiatrist Philip Thomas discusses the globalization of psychiatry and pharmaceutical company expansion world-wide, including how community empowerment and traditional ways of care can challenge western individualism based medical model of mental health. Check out Phil’s book Post-Psychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World, and his essay “Challenging the Globalization of Psychiatry”, both written with Irish psychiatrist Pat Bracken.The post Globalization of Psychiatry: Philip Thomas Post-Psychiatry first appeared on Madness Radio.

John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American, Discover, and the New York Times, talks about neuroscience, genetics, the placebo effect psychedelic drugs, and more. John is the author of The Undiscovered Mind: How The Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation, Rational Mysticism, and The End of Science. He also hosts a video blog at http://www.bloggingheads.tv http://www.johnhorgan.orgThe post John Horgan: “The Undiscovered Mind” first appeared on Madness Radio.

Paul Levy, who went through psych hospitalizations as part of a spiritual emergence process and became a Buddhist teacher, discusses his book The Madness Of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis. http://www.awakeninthedream.comThe post “Madness of George W Bush” w/ Paul Levy first appeared on Madness Radio.