Paranoid? You’re Not Alone

PsychologyToday.com
March 25, 2024

I interview Peter Bullimore on the National Paranoia Network, his own mental health history, and the need for alternative approaches to paranoid beliefs.

Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning

MadInAmerica.com
November 4, 2023

What if madness isn’t a defective form of reasoning, but a distinctive style of reasoning?.

Beyond the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression

PsychologyToday.com
October 8, 2023

A psychiatrist’s lonely battle to dismantle a broken system.

Hearing Voices? You’re Not the Only One

PsychologyToday.com
January 11, 2023

What if the experience is only negative because we've been told it's a problem?

Did ADHD Evolve To Help Us?

PsychologyToday.com
November 22, 2022

Evidence mounts that ADHD isn’t a brain deficit, but an evolved cognitive style with its own strengths.

The Debate Over Psychiatric Diagnosis

PsychologyToday.com
October 17, 2022

A small but vocal group of mental health professionals and service users promotes alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis.

Is Borderline Personality Disorder an Adaptation?

PsychologyToday.com
August 22, 2022

Some argue that traits associated with BPD represent designed responses to early life events, not brain dysfunctions.

Seeing Dyslexia as a Unique Cognitive Strength, Rather Than a Disorder

PsychologyToday.com
June 27, 2022

Dyslexia is linked to creativity, exploration, and problem-solving. It likely evolved in early humans to enrich society.

Mad by Design

MadinAmerica.com
April 26, 2022

To propose that madness may have a function is not to deny the toll it may exact on people, but to help us understand what problem it is meant to solve.

Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness outside Medicine

February 29, 2024

A presentation in London for the Royal Institute of Philosophy on rethinking madness outside the medical model. Registration here.

Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness outside Medicine

July 21, 2023

A presentation for the Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy on whether psychiatry is intrinsically wedded to a dysfunction-centered model, and how to move beyond it.

Could Mental Illness be More Than Dysfunction?

Jan 29, 2023

I talk with Amanda Vanstone of Australia Broadcasting Company’s Counterpoint program about seeing purpose, rather than pathology, in mental illness.

Did Your BPD Symptoms Develop to Help You Survive and Adapt as a Helpless Child in a Dysfunctional Environment?

September 20, 2022

I talk with Mollie from her Back from the Borderline podcast about what it means to shift from a “disease” to a “design” model of mental illness.

Madness as Strategy and Mad Resistance

May 13, 2021

The history of psychiatry isn’t a clash between mind and brain approaches to madness, but between functional and dysfunctional approaches. I bring madness-as-strategy into dialogue with the movement known as Mad Pride, mad resistance, or mad activism.  

Is Madness an Evolved Signal?

February 28, 2024

I spoke with James Moore of the Mad in America Podcast on my own history with psychiatry, stigma, psychiatry’s medical model, and its alternatives.

The End of Psychiatry: Madness, Medicine, and Mental Health

December 11, 2023

A presentation at the Britm i parë Institute in Pristina, Kosovo, on rethinking madness outside the medical model. The talk will be livestreamed here.

Reframing Madness

October 29, 2023

I spoke with Adam Hunt of the Evolving Psychiatry Podcast on scientific concepts of dysfunction, the role of the paradigms framing psychiatry, and the possible benefits of evolutionary thinking about mental 'disorders'.

Who Decides what Mental Dysfunctions Are?

February 9, 2023

I spoke with Ashar Khan of the Thing in Itself Podcast on what it means to shift from a dysfunction to a function-centered perspective on madness.

Your Brain Might Be Trying to Tell You Something About Depression - Are You Listening?

August 10, 2022

Radio interview with the Elias Makos Show on Montreal’s CJAD 800AM (about 9 min)

Does Madness Serve a Purpose

July 18, 2021

Is 'mental disorder' purely a dysfunction, or are there important advantages to being psychologically different? Do depression and anxiety serve a vital role in healing and bettering one's life?