The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

By Podcasters David Jones & Dr Naomi MurphySociety & Culture Health & Fitness Mental Health True Crime

The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments episodes

January 20, 2021 Punishment is no cure for addiction, getting caught up in the penal system. Morgan Godvin
Morgan now serves as a commissioner on the Oregon Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission. She is in long term recovery and spent four years in prison following the death of her close friend from and overdose. She is a passionate advocate for drug, and penal reform. She is powerful in describing the difficult times she has experienced but optimimistic that change could be on the way. The inspirational book she suggests is Righteous Dopefiend (California Series in Public Anthropology): 21 by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg.
46 min
January 18, 2021 The Heal for Life foundation, treating trauma and the effects of abuse. with Liz Mullinar.
In 1999 Liz Mullinar founded the Heal For Life Foundation (Mayumarri) to provide a safe centre for survivors where they could heal from the devastating impact of trauma and abuse. The Heal For Life model has helped over 8,500 people across Australia and the world and has been independently evaluated to achieve significant, long-term improvements in mental, social and emotional health. This provides a different approach to working with trauma andthe elements of the work could be integrated into many settings.
58 min
January 15, 2021 Comparing social climate across therapeutically distinct prison wings
Gareth Ross and Lucy Reading tell us about their recently published research which describes the social climate across therapeutic and non thereapeutic wings in a high secure prison.
55 min
January 12, 2021 Locked up Living, the introduction
Locked up Living is a Podcast examining aspects of resiliance for those locked up in prisons and hospitals and the staff who look after them. Psychotherapist David Jones and Psychologist Naomi Murphy introduce themselves and talk about their own experiences and how they came to spend their lives working in prisons. This is the preface to a series of interviews from the fields of anthropology, criminology, psychology, psychiarty and psychotherapy and with people whose lived experience gives them a unique and powerful perspective.
39 min

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