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Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

Mad in America

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4.8201 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jazmine Russell is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA), a transformative mental health training institute, and the host of the Depth Work Podcast. As a writer, educator, and scholar, Jazmine works at the intersection of mad studies, critical psychology, and neuroscience. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease.

Jazmine's focus extends to the intersection of mental health and chronic illness, particularly exploring the overlap of psychosis, trauma, and autoimmunity. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Jazmine continues to see clients as a trauma-informed holotropic breathwork practitioner.

She is also a co-editor of the forthcoming Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health (Routledge, 2024). Today, we will delve into her background, her journey to co-founding IDHA, her current work and podcast, and the insights she offers in the upcoming Mad Studies Reader.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Madden America Podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.

0:15.0

Jasmine Russell is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, a transformative mental health training

0:21.1

institute, and the host of the Depth Work podcast. As a writer, educator, and scholar, Jasmine

0:27.6

works at the intersection of mad studies, critical psychology, and neuroscience. Her work is deeply

0:33.4

informed by her lived experiences, surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune

0:39.1

disease.

0:41.0

Jasmine's focus extends to the intersection of mental health and chronic illness, particularly

0:45.3

exploring the overlap of psychosis, trauma, and autoimmunity.

0:50.2

This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the MAD movement. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, Jasmine continues to see clients as a trauma-informed

0:59.2

holotropic breathwork practitioner. She is also a co-editor on the forthcoming Mad Studies reader,

1:06.0

interdisciplinary innovations in mental health coming out from Rutledge this year.

1:10.7

Today, we will delve into her

1:12.0

background, her journey to founding the Institute, and our current work and podcasts, along with the

1:18.0

insights she's offering in the upcoming Mad Studies reader. Jasmine, welcome to the Madden America

1:22.8

podcast. It's great to have you here. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. I'm a big fan of Mad America.

1:28.3

I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of some of the chapters coming out in the

1:32.3

Mad Studies Reader.

1:33.3

And in your chapter, making the case for multiplicity, you begin with your first episode of

1:39.3

psychosis and the ensuing crisis of meaning.

1:42.3

Can you share with us a little bit about your personal journey

1:45.0

on how you came to connect this with complex trauma, psychosis, autoimmune disease, and how these

1:51.2

experiences have shaped your path in the mental health field? So I'll take us back a little bit

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