Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can't Pay Attention
This week on the Mad in America podcast we hear from Johann Hari. Johann is an internationally bestselling author whose books have appeared in 38 languages, and he was twice named National Newspaper ...
25 Jan 202256min
Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis
In the face of the COVID pandemic, social and academic pressures, and an uncertain future, young people are struggling. Each week we see another news reports about a "mental health crisis" among youth...
19 Jan 202258min
Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society
Sebastienne Grant is a professor of critical psychology at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently serves as the program director for a Master's program in Critical Psychology and Human S...
12 Jan 202253min
For Life - Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs Premieres on Jan 15
Dawn Sonntag and Kermit Cole have collaborated on creating a 30-minute opera, For Life, that explores the possible harms that can come from psychiatric drugs. It's a novel subject for an opera, which ...
8 Jan 202251min
Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back
Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal where he co-directs the postgraduate course in psychiatry and th...
22 Dec 202150min
Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia - Emotional CPR - Heart-Centered Peer Support
In this podcast we discuss an educational program called Emotional CPR (eCPR), a form of peer support anyone can use to assist youth (or adults) in emotional crisis. Our guests are Oryx Cohen and Briz...
24 Nov 202138min
Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn - How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart
Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn is a professor at Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is currently part of several national and international research projects examining ed...
17 Nov 202143min
Renee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine
On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from Renee Schuls-Jacobson. Renee was a teacher for two decades and she is now an author, artist, advocate and coach. In this interview, we discuss her...
10 Nov 20211h 3min
