Sep 24, 20251h 24m
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? Michael Montgomery grew up...
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An hour-long interview format, Madness Radio focuses on personal experiences of 'madness' and extreme states of consciousness from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments. We also feature authors, advocates, and researchers on madness-related topics, including civil rights, science, policy reform, holistic health, history, and art. www.madnessradio.net
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What is Madness Radio about?
An hour-long interview format, Madness Radio focuses on personal experiences of 'madness' and extreme states of consciousness from beyond conventional perspectives and mainstream treatments. We also feature authors, advocates, and researchers on madness-related topics, including civil rights, science, policy reform, holistic health, history, and art.
What has Madness Radio covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Compassionate Therapy | Michael Montgomery | Madness Radio" (24 September 2025, 84 minutes), "Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio" (22 August 2025, 82 minutes), and "Valley Free Radio Anniversary | Will Hall | Madness Radio" (10 August 2025, 8 minutes).
How often does Madness Radio publish?
Madness Radio publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 175 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Madness Radio?
Booking probability for Madness Radio is 25%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Madness Radio requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Madness Radio's contact route on record: verified email.
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Madness Radio is a health podcast with 175 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Aug 22, 20251h 22m
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...
- Aug 10, 20258 min
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, dedicated to peace...
- Jul 30, 202540 min
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 attended Mad...
- Jan 21, 20251h 11m
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 low-income rights...
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- Nov 7, 20241h 6m
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 edited the Canadian...
- Aug 5, 20241h 19m
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 psychosis...
- Jul 9, 20241h 25m
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...
- Jun 13, 20241h 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 this view...
- Apr 8, 202421 min
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...
- Feb 1, 20241h 15m
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 clinic for...
- Dec 7, 20231h 13m
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...
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A Ten Day Voyage | R.D. Laing Politics of Experience Audiobook | Madness Radio
Sep 17, 202333 minAudiobook 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 download)...
- Sep 9, 20231h 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 Black? Does...
- Jul 5, 20231h 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...
- May 11, 20231h 28m
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 with Paris Williams...
- Apr 25, 20231h 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 diagnosis harms...
- Apr 4, 202346 min
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...
- Mar 9, 20231h 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? Monica Cassani is a...
- Feb 28, 20231h 56m
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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Will Hall
head coach of Tulane Football, Compassion, navigatebaptist.church
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Rob Wipond
author of Your Consent is Not Required
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David Walker
former Comptroller General of the United States, CEO of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), University College London Hospitals
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David Bedrick
Santa Fe Institute for Shame-Based Studies
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