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