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Voices and Visions from Outside Mental Health

What does it mean to be called "crazy" in a crazy world? Madness Radio: Voices And Visions from Outside Mental Health brings you personal experiences of 'madness' from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments, and also features authors, advocates, professionals, and artists.

Hosted by Will Hall, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, Madness Radio was launched in 2005 on Valley Free Radio in Massachusetts and is syndicated nationally on the Pacifica Network. Madness Radio is heard monthly on KBOO the first monday of the month from 11:30am to 12. Will is a leader in the peer recovery movement, a therapist in Portland, has a Diploma from Process Work Institute, and is the director of the support and education community Portland Hearing Voices.

Check out the website archives at www.madnessradio.net to listen online and download more than 100 Madness Radio episodes produced to date. Full hour-long versions of shows heard on KBOO are available. 

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Linda Andre and Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You To Know About Electroshock Therapy

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall This week's Madness Radio asks, Why is ECT, electroconvulsive therapy or electroshock, so widely used today? Is the ECT industry manipulating research and public perceptions the way tobacco companies did about cigarettes? What are the real dangers of thi... Read more

Madness Radio on 09/05/11

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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How common are suicidal feelings? Is a psychiatric illness behind suicidal despair -- or a meaningful and even spiritual life crisis? Does forced hospitalization really provide help? Suicide attempt survivor David Webb, author of Thinking About Suicide: Contemplating and Co... Read more

Suicide attempt survivor David Webb, author of Thinking About Suicide

Airs at: Mon, 09/05/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall.    How common are suicidal feelings? Is a psychiatric illness behind suicidal despair -- or a meaningful and even spiritual life crisis? Does forced hospitalization really provide help? Suicide attempt survivor David Webb, author of Thinking About Suici... Read more

Dr. Daniel B. Fisher on Recovering from Mental Illness

Airs at: Mon, 08/01/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall. Today's guest is Dr. Daniel Fisher, Executive Director of the National Empowerment Center, and noted Psychiatrist.  He'll talk about his own experiences with Schizophrenia, and how a more Recovery-oriented, Consumer and Family Driven System could help ... Read more

Madness Radio on 07/04/11

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Are voices real -- or are they just auditory hallucinations and sign of mental illness? Is it best to try to control and get rid of voices -- or listen and discover their meaning? After being sexually abused by a priest and in grief at the death of his first wife, Scottish ... Read more

Ron Coleman, teacher and trainer with the Hearing Voices Movement

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall Are voices real -- or are they just auditory hallucinations and sign of mental illness? Is it best to try to control and get rid of voices -- or listen and discover their meaning? After being sexually abused by a priest and in grief at the death of his ... Read more

Leah Harris Spoken Word on Surviving Psychiatry

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall Leah Harris was orphaned after both parents were diagnosed with schizophrenia and died from medication toxicity. Today she is a leading voice in survivor activism, and her powerful spoken word poetry, including "I Was A Teenage Mental Patient," has been... Read more

Madness Radio on 05/02/11

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Host Will Hall speaks with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche," which looks at western mental disorders and pharmaceutical treatments are exported around the world." The most devastating consequence of the spread of American cul... Read more

"Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters

Airs at: Mon, 05/02/2011 at 12:00am
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 Host Will Hall speaks with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche," which looks at western mental disorders and pharmaceutical treatments are exported around the world." The most devastating consequence of the spread of American cu... Read more

Christopher Lane asks if Shyness is a Disease

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2011 at 12:00am
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 Hosted by Will Hall Do pharmaceutical companies control the social definition of normal? Can advertising and public relations campaigns turn acceptable personality differences into unacceptable disorders? British-American literary critic and historian Christopher Lane disc... Read more