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Sep 2, 2026
Gail HornsteinGUEST
Thank you, Justin.
JustinHOST
Thank you for listening to the Mad in America podcast.
JustinHOST
For more news, views and updates, visit madinamerica.com.
JustinHOST
And from there, we'll move into Agnes's jacket, the hearing voices movement, and Gail's recent research on what hearing voices groups make possible for people who hear voices, have visions, or experience other extreme states.
JustinHOST
Gail, thank you so much for coming back on the Mad in America podcast.
JustinHOST
It's a pleasure to have you here.
Gail HornsteinGUEST
It's a great pleasure for me, Justin, and thanks so much for the opportunity.
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Gail HornsteinGUEST
But there are all kinds of expertise.
Gail HornsteinGUEST
And the expertise of experience is a very powerful kind of expertise.
Gail HornsteinGUEST
And I hope that all of us can even to a greater extent than we have before and i think mad in america is a leading proponent of this view try to take an attitude of humility try to take an attitude of respect for the complexity of human psychology and how none of us has a complete answer to any of the questions that we might ask about any aspects of of psychological life And I think we can learn an enormous amount from all kinds of sources.
Gail HornsteinGUEST
And that, you know, one of the things I always cherish about participating in a hearing voices group, even though I am not myself a voice hearer, is the way that people can go around the room and talk about their own experience.
Steve MofficGUEST
And psychiatrists, I think, in general, were ignoring patients' complaints about that.
Steve MofficGUEST
And finally, you know, a patient group, a peer group that kept bringing this up, probably the one I'm most certain about is A group in America, it's not only America, called Mad in America, and they've been complaining about this for years, that psychiatrists didn't take this seriously.
Steve MofficGUEST
It's a tricky matter.
Steve MofficGUEST
You have to go very, very slowly in getting off of, say, any antidepressant you've been on, maybe other than Wellbutrin, any antidepressant you've been on for a long time.
Paul AustinHOST
MadinAmerica.org is the blog?
Robert WhitakerGUEST
Oh yeah, the website is MadinAmerica.com.
Paul AustinHOST
.com.
Paul AustinHOST
Okay, MadinAmerica.com.
Paul AustinHOST
So check out Robert's work.
Paul AustinHOST
And again, Robert, thank you so much for joining us for the show.
Brooke SeemHOST
[gentle music] Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice.
Brooke SeemHOST
Today on the Mad in America podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Marek Daniel Pilling.
Brooke SeemHOST
Marek is an associate professor and interim co-director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Brooke SeemHOST
He's the author of Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice, as well as the co-editor of Interrogating Psychiatric Narratives of Madness: Documented Lives.
Brooke SeemHOST
It organizes itself around two basic questions: what can mad studies help us understand, and what can mad studies help us to do? So those questions will guide our conversation today.
Brooke SeemHOST
We'll begin with Marek's own path into this work, then move into psychiatric documentation and narrative, and then spend most of our time with Mad Studies: The Basics, its account of some origins of the field, its critique of psychiatric common sense, and the insistence that mad studies is simultaneously a way of interpreting the world and a form of critical praxis.
Brooke SeemHOST
So Marek, thank you so much for coming to the Mad in America podcast.
Brooke SeemHOST
Pleasure to have you here.