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Madness Radio: Genetic Predispositions? Jay JosephFirst Aired 5-7-2008 Duration: 51:09Clinical psychologist Jay Joseph details medical science's 30-year failed quest to find any link between genetics and diagnoses of mental disorders, and debunks widely held beliefs in the psychiatric profession, including the idea of 'genetic predispositions' for mental illness. Jay is the author of The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes and The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope.http://www.jayjoseph.net/

The Use Of Language In Defining Reality
By Patricia LefaveI believe that one of the most important things to understand about our problems with psychiatry and others is that Language is used to define control and manipulate by those DOING the defining. Let's use a common example that most of us hear repeated over and over ad nauseam to those of us defined as 'sick.' This is one of my favourite meaningless abstractions used to attempt to shut me up."We can't blame others."It is never 'which others' under what specific circumstances with what evidence of what...It is always used as a generalizati

You Don't Know What Words Mean
By Patricia Lefave, Labelled, D.D.(P)That title is one of the concepts out of my nurse co-worker/protagonist's so called training.Let me give you a concrete example of that so you can see, what I am talking about when I try to explain.What do you think this means?"Bill Gains Strength"Do you think you know? Are you sure? Does it seem 'obvious' to you?Ok, well let's look closer. Who or what is 'Bill'?Is this a man?Is it a dog?Is it the bill of a bird of some kind?Does it mean the dollar bill in the U.S.?Is it the bill for a meal you just ate?Is it a bill f

Brief Message off the TV
Just for PsychiatristsThis is from the episode in which the problems of a patient are identified by Jack as generated by the patient’s memories of a previous life. Jack and the attending psychiatrist discuss their beliefs, or lack of them, in regards to life regression and reincarnation.Jack asks the other directly; "So you are actually a believer then?"The Attending: "I would never say any such thing as it would do my career no good at all. It would finish it for me.''Same episode another patient is getting messages from his grandfather off the radio. His psychiatrist

from Robert Whitaker
Madness Radio: Sane Medication Policy Robert WhitakerBy MadnessRadio - Posted on 28 March 2009First Aired: Madness Radio 2009-03-30Show: Sane Medication Policy Robert Whitaker Length: 51:25 minutes (47.12 MB)Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)