Changing Narratives - Reflecting on Mad in America's Mission and Work

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

Mad in America

Anxiety, Mental Health, Benzo, Science, Hearingvoices, Psychology, Antipsychotic, Mentalhealth, Depression, Panicattack, Psychosis, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Psychiatry, Ssri, Antidepressant

4.8 • 201 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week is a special one for us at Mad in America, as it’s the 200th episode of our podcast. Our first interview was with attorney and author of Zyprexa Papers, Jim Gottstein, back in July 2017. For this and the next podcast, we’ll be talking to the people that make Mad in America what it is, the people behind the scenes, who keep it running day-to-day.

Later in this podcast, we will hear from staff reporter Amy Biancolli, science news editor Justin Karter and arts editor Karin Jervert, but to kick us off today, we hear from Mad in America founder, Robert Whitaker.

Bob worked as a newspaper reporter for a number of years, covering medicine and science. He is the author of five books, three of which investigate the history of psychiatry and the merits of its treatments. Those books are Mad in America,published in 2002; Anatomy of an Epidemic, from 2010, and he was co-author along with Lisa Cosgrove of Psychiatry Under the Influence, published in 2015.

He was also a director of publications at Harvard Medical School for a time during the 1990s.

Bob joined me to talk about how Mad in America got started and how it strives to achieve its aim of rethinking psychiatry.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.1	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. And this week is a special one for us at Madden America as it's our 200th episode. Our first interview
0:24.3	was with attorney and author of the Zyprexa papers, Jim Gottstein, back in July 2017. Now here we are in
0:32.5	2022 with our 200th podcast. So I hope you might forgive us for a little self-indulgence. For this and
0:39.8	our next podcast, we'll be talking to the people that make Mad in America what it is, the people
0:45.1	behind the scenes keeping it running. Later in this podcast, we'll hear from staff reporter Amy B.
0:50.9	Ancoly, science news editor Justin Carter, and arts editor Karin Gervert.
0:56.7	But to kick us off today, we hear from Madden America founder, Robert Whitaker.
1:01.7	But before we hear from Bob, I just want to thank you all for listening.
1:05.4	And to say that if you want to support Madden America in its ongoing mission,
1:09.3	then you can donate by visiting maddenamerica.com
1:12.5	and clicking the donate button in the top right-hand corner. We know that not everyone is in a
1:17.4	position to donate, so you can also help us by visiting MIA regularly, signing up for our weekly
1:23.2	newsletter and sharing our content on social media. So on to our interviews and many of you who
1:29.7	have followed Mad in America will know of Robert Whitaker's work. Bob worked as a newspaper reporter
1:35.3	for a number of years covering medicine and science. He is the author of five books, three of which
1:40.9	investigate the history of psychiatry and the merits of its treatments. Those books are
1:45.6	Mad in America, published in 2002, Anatomy of an Epidemic from 2010, and he was co-author, along with
1:52.8	Lisa Cosgrove, of Psychiatry Under the Influence, published in 2015. Bob was also director of
1:59.0	publications at Harvard Medical School for a time during the 1990s.
2:03.3	Today he joined me to talk about how Madden America got started and how it strives to achieve its aim of rethinking psychiatry.
2:11.2	Bob, welcome.
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