Episodes 175
Avg. Duration 52m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 4.8 (103)
Since Jul 2007
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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Compassionate Therapy | Michael Montgomery | Madness Radio

Sep 24, 2025 1h 23m

Can psychotherapy work against the mainstream system? What does it take to be truly compassionate as a professional? And what are the downsides of promising alternatives such as Open Dialogue?…

Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio

Aug 22, 2025 1h 21m

Is “schizophrenia” a broken brain — or shamanic journeying to ancestral dimensions? Is being “out of touch with reality” actually visions of deeper truth and racial healing? Dick Russell – author of…

Valley Free Radio Anniversary | Will Hall | Madness Radio

Aug 10, 2025 8m

Will Hall greets community FM station Valley Free Radio for its 20 years anniversary celebration! Founders Will and Ed Russell sparked the volunteer-run station in Northampton, Massachusetts,…

Mad Camp 2024 | Jessica Gallinger | Madness Radio

Jul 30, 2025 39m

Mad Camp is an annual summer camp for mad people in Northern California – with people joining from all over the world! What’s it all about? Madness Radio producer and co-host Jessica Gallinger…

Sex Drugs Harm Reduction | Caty Simon | Madness Radio

Jan 21, 2025 1h 10m

How do decriminalizing drug use and sex work advance mad liberation? What lessons can psychiatric survivors learn from the harm reduction movement? Caty Simon’s activist leadership spans the…

Escaped Lunatic | Irit Shimrat | Madness Radio

Nov 07, 2024 1h 5m

Legendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-founder of the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance, Irit…

Visionary Ecology | Steven Morgan | Madness Radio

Aug 05, 2024 1h 18m

Do grieving goats lick psychedelic lichen? Altered states are part of nature, used by plants and animals for survival(!). How does ecology reveal the evolutionary – and spiritual – purpose of…

Grand Rounds UCSF Psychiatry – Will Hall – Madness Radio

Jul 09, 2024 1h 24m

Will Hall’s June 2024 Grand Rounds talk at University of California San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences – where he was locked up as a young man! – titled “New Visions of…

Philosophy of Madness | Justin Garson | Madness Radio

Jun 13, 2024 1h 9m

Is madness dysfunction and breakdown – or part of human evolution that helps us survive? Writers going back to Hippocrates saw madness as the organism’s way to cope with its environment, so why has…

The End of the World | Will Hall | Madness Radio

Apr 08, 2024 21m

What can R.D. Laing, madness, and Star Trek teach us about the end of the world – and saving it? Will Hall reads “Can Madness Save the World? Where R.D. Laing—and Star Trek—Meet,” published on Mad In…

Crazy or Religious? | Alison Smith | Madness Radio

Feb 01, 2024 1h 14m

Does hearing God’s voice make you mentally ill? Will psychiatry help you cope with grief and rejection – or make things worse? After a distressing romantic breakup Alison Smith went to her college…

UCSF Grand Rounds | Dina Tyler | Madness Radio

Dec 07, 2023 1h 12m

Dina Tyler’s FANTASTIC, heartful, brilliant December 2023 Grand Rounds talk at UCSF Medical School, “Improving Outcomes for Psychosis: Psychiatric Survivor and Critical Psychiatry Perspectives.” Also…

A Ten Day Voyage | R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook | Madness Radio

Sep 17, 2023 33m

Audiobook mp3 of Chapter 7 “A Ten Day Voyage”, from The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise, by R.D. Laing, read by Will Hall. Full book .mp3 (cntrl/rtclck save as to…

Abolition Is Disability Justice | Tina Minkowitz | Madness Radio

Sep 09, 2023 1h 33m

Why are assault, kidnapping, and torture legal – when you have a psychiatric diagnosis? Is psychiatry’s legal double standard unjust in the same way a double standard would be for being female or…

Abolish Psy? | Craig Newnes | Madness Radio

Jul 05, 2023 1h 8m

Are psychotherapy’s assumptions completely misguided? What is really at stake in the research and practice of psychology? Is it possible to take a step back and see “psy” for what it is? Craig Newnes…

Flight From Trauma | Paris Williams | Madness Radio

May 11, 2023 1h 27m

How does the terror of child abuse inspire the heights of spiritual awakening? Are risky behaviors with drugs and extreme sports also a search towards healing? Co-hosts Dina Tyler and Will Hall talk…

Rethinking Therapy | Will Hall and Ryan Hofrichter | Madness Radio

Apr 25, 2023 1h 31m

Therapist Ryan Hofrichter flips the mic on Madness Radio host Will Hall for a wide-ranging discussion about madness, psychiatry, and being a therapist. Topics include power in therapy, psychiatric…

Youth Leadership | Felicity Krueger & Oryx Cohen | Madness Radio

Apr 04, 2023 45m

Can teens lead their own mental health education? Are suicidal feelings and self harm “contagions” that young people shouldn’t talk about? How can mutual aid and peer support solve our youth mental…

Lyme And Dyskinesia | Monica Cassani | Madness Radio

Mar 09, 2023 1h 5m

Are trauma, medication injury, and holistic health connected? Does Lyme disease infection relate to tardive dyskinesia from psychiatric drugs? Is there a spiritual purpose to debilitating illness?…

Consent Not Required | Rob Wipond | Madness Radio

Feb 28, 2023 1h 55m

Read this book! Is discriminating against people who have — or are labeled with — psychiatric disabilities ever justified? Is denying equality before the law necessary in times of crisis – or does it…

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