Madness Radio

Judi Chamberlin is a leading organizer with the psychiatric survivors' movement and one of its earliest initiators. She is author of On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System and staff with the National Empowerment Center. Show is co-hosted by Cheryl Alexander.   [Read more...]

Louis Lee LePouttre, forced to take psych drugs as an outpatient in Northampton discusses his legal situation with Jim Gottstein of PsychRights. Louis, who has no history of violence, objects to drugging on religious and health grounds. When he fails to show up for appointments, police drag him to the hospital and he is forcibly injected under a "Rogers Order." Louis is a client of ServiceNet, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Parkview, and the Department of Mental Health. He now has diabetes, a Zyprexa side effect.   [Read more...]

Laurie Ahern, Associate Director of Mental Disability Rights International, on advocacy efforts to end human rights abuses in psychiatric facilities in Turkey, Romania, Paraguay, Kosovo, and world-wide.

Check out their website at http://www.mdri.org   [Read more...]

Recovery leader Sherry Mead discusses how peer-run crisis alternatives are leading the way to a transformed mental health system.   [Read more...]

Peter Bullimore, of England's Hearing Voices Network, on his experiences with madness diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, including violence and extreme deterioration.

Peter discusses sexual abuse and how he worked with his voices to recover and become one of the world's leading psychiatric survivor activists. He also tells the story of how he got the Paranoia Network of support groups started.   [Read more...]

Amy Sanderson, Rufus May, and Andrew Wood discuss Evolving Minds, a visionary public forum and activist group challenging traditional mental health care in England, including the 2005 cross-country Bed Push protest against coercive psychiatry.   [Read more...]

Tim Wise, internationally recognized writer and activist, on racism, white privilege, and the psychology of discrimination.   [Read more...]

Sharon Wise, psychiatric survivor activist on her story as a psychiatric survivor and organizing efforts to end "restraints and seclusion," euphemisms for shackling and solitary confinement.   [Read more...]

Paul Levy, counselor, teacher, and coordinator of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center in Portland, Oregon, speaking on his spiritual emergence from psychosis to mystical awakening.

Also check out Paul's website and writing at http://www.awakeninthedream.com   [Read more...]

Poetry special with psychiatric survivors Carey Lamprecht, Ashley McNamara, Oryx Cohen, Chaya Grossberg, Ellen Hayes, and Teddy Peterson.

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