Lee Coleman - Breaking Out of the Circle - Creating a Non-violent Revolution

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Mental Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week on MIA Radio, we continue our series of discussions with Doctor Lee Coleman. In previous podcasts, we have discussed Lee's views as a critical psychiatrist and the role of psychiatry in the courtroom. This time, we turn our attention to the need for action to address the inherent power held by psychiatry and how society might respond.

In this episode we discuss:

How language has the power to trigger associations and can lead us to not question theories that are presented to us as facts.
How we have come to equate psychiatric 'treatment' with interventions in other areas of medicine.
The deception behind the names of the drugs used in psychiatry such as 'antidepressants' or 'antipsychotics'.
That society may well be blinded by language to the critical issues of the use of force and the relationship between the law and psychiatry.
That, ultimately, society demands that psychiatry play the role that it does and therefore we need a societal and political response.
That any movement to address the dominance of the medical model needs to educate the public at large and so needs resources to be able to provide that challenge.
How the media often provides an amplified voice for mainstream messages leading to normalisation and lack of critical questioning of such messages.
That we can and should partner with sympathetic media channels who are open to challenging mainstream messaging.
That Lee will hopefully be leading a workshop at the 2019 NARPA (National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy) Conference in Connecticut, USA.

Relevant Links

Article - Technology and Psychiatry

NARPA 2019 Conference

YouTube - Psychiatry's "War of the Words"

YouTube - Dealing With Powerful Opponents: Psychiatry, Government and Pharma

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.7	Hello, this is James and welcome to the Madden America podcast.
0:18.6	And before we get started today, I wanted to mention that Madden America's
0:22.5	Parent Resources page is seeking blogs and personal stories from parents, their children and
0:28.6	professionals about the unique challenges of caring for or being a youth with mental health challenges.
0:35.6	Articles can run 500 to 2,000 words,
0:39.0	and we encourage critical, creative,
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0:49.2	Please submit materials to our editor, Miranda Spencer,
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0:53.7	Parents at Maddenamerica.com,
0:56.0	and you can visit the parent resources page at maddenamerica.com forward slash parents.
1:02.3	So on to our guest, and this week we continue our series of discussions with Lee Coleman,
1:08.0	and in particular we talk about the need to break out of the circle and create
1:12.1	a non-violent revolution.
1:14.3	Lee, welcome.
1:15.4	It's great to get to chat again for the podcast.
1:18.9	And, you know, for people listening, I'd just like to relate that Lee and I met face
1:22.9	to face recently in a beautiful part of the UK.
1:26.0	And, you know, I was very fortunate to get to talk about some of the
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