Crazy Making

Dr. Simon Adam

Crazy Making presents a variety of topics related to mental health and mental illness and will engage in discussions ranging from depression, to mad studies, to critical mental health movements, to the politics of the DSM.

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    Launching Crazy Making with Dr. Marina Morrow and Efrat Gold

    In this inaugural episode, we hear from Dr. Marina Morrow and Efrat Gold on their important work in critical mental health and the possibilities for alternative approaches that extend beyond biomedical psychiatry. We discuss coercive and damaging practices within the psychiatric discipline, as we take a close look at the role of global research collaborations in efforts to critique and resist psychiatric power and advance mental health care and policy in line with human rights legislation. We likewise engage in discussions related to the discourse of eugenics post World War II and its impact on the development of the psychiatric profession, its establishment as an institution of social control, and its legitimization and ‘facticity’ as discipline within the broader jurisdiction of medicine. Dr. Marina Morrow is a Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Health at York University. In her work, Marina uses critical mental health and intersectional approaches to better understand the social, political, and institutional processes through which health and mental health policies and practices are developed and how social and health inequities are sustained or attenuated for different populations. Marina strongly supports public scholarship and the work and activism of the Mad movement and Mad scholars. She is the lead editor on a recent book called Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health, available from the University of Toronto Press. Efrat Gold is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, engaging in mad and disability studies. Through her writing and activism, she challenges dominant views of mental health and illness, moving towards contextualized and relational understandings of suffering and distress. Gold critiques psychiatry, focusing on those most vulnerable and marginalized by psychiatric power, discourse, and treatments. Her work is staunchly feminist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive. Through explorations into norms, meaning-making, and constructions of legitimacy, Gold unsettles psychiatric hegemony by returning to the sites where psychiatric certainty has been produced.

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    Crazy Making presents a variety of topics related to mental health and mental illness and will engage in discussions ranging from depression, to mad studies, to critical mental health movements, to the politics of the DSM. Some salient questions that we might ask here are: 1. Who benefits from the existence of psychiatry, and to what degree? 2. Who/what is disadvantaged by the existence of psychiatry? 3. What ways are there of conceptualizing human suffering other than those framed by the medical model? In this podcast, we learn from critical mental health scholars, psychiatric survivors, the mad community, antipsychiatry activists, dissident professionals, advocates, anarchists, humanists, posthumanists and assemblages of many other subversive critics. Dr. Simon Adam is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at York University, Canada, long-time mental health advocate and critical psychiatry activist. He is a researcher on the politics of mental health and mental illness, examining the implications of the medicalization of the human condition. Listen to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Reach out to us by email at CrazyMaking@yorku.ca and follow us on Instagram. This podcast is written and hosted by me, Simon Adam, and edited, mixed, and mastered by Umang Antariksh Sagar and Yhasmina Garcia Martinez. The music piece in this podcast is called Thinking Music by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-music License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Crazy Making presents a variety of topics related to mental health and mental illness and will engage in discussions ranging from depression, to mad studies, to critical mental health movements, to the politics of the DSM.