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psychophobia* podcast
Challenging how we think about extreme mental states and the institutions that claim to treat them. Essays, conversations, and more from Dr. Michael R. Montgomery, international Existential Psychoanalyst.
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Episodes
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 12, Pt 2: The Human Cost of Forced Treatment
“We’ve got to rebuild our communities from the ground up, grassroots up. And make space for screaming with each other.” — Rob Wipond, Psychophobia, Episode 12…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 11, Part I: Abolish Forced Treatment Now with Rob Wipond
“Stop it. Abolish involuntary commitment.” — Rob Wipond — — What does consent mean if it can be withdrawn on your behalf? Investigative journalist Rob Wipond…
psychophobia* podcastBonus Ep 01: First Encounter
In a Manhattan park, Dr. Michael R. Montgomery and producer Brandon Keogan begin with the word ‘psychophobia’: fear of the mind. Michael asks why depression is…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 10: Mad Enough to Imagine Peace
Is a psychiatric ward really that different from a prison? — After twenty years of practice across five countries, Michael says he knows conclusively what a…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 09: Part II - When Treatment Becomes the Problem - How modern psychiatry lost the human being
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.” — Václav Havel — —…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 08 Part I: When Treatment Becomes the Problem - How modern psychiatry lost the human being
"These are not the side effects of the medication. These are the effects of the medication." — R.D. Laing — — The former head of the American Psychiatric…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 07: Use It or Lose It - The Brain, Lifelong Learning, and the Courage to Stay Curious
“I am still learning.“ — Michelangelo, at age 87 — Sandy Halperin was a Harvard professor so brilliant he could deliver two-hour lectures from memory. A decade…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 06: The Seduction of Certainty - Curiosity, Complexity and the Unknown
“I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” --…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 05: Fierce Compassion - Mystification, and the Living Lineage of R.D. Laing
psychophobia* podcast '“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves." — Etty Hillesum — — In a Rome Bookstore, Nita…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 04: Alcohol and Agency - The Question of Informed Choice
psychophobia* podcast “The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”— Samuel Johnson — — Alcohol is one of the most…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 03: Psychedelic Narcissists - Why taking a chainsaw to the psyche requires more than good intentions
psychophobia* podcast “You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 02: When the World Goes Quiet - Invisible Disabilities, Radical Sensitivity, and the Healing Power of Silence
psychophobia* podcast “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal — — Inside one of the quietest…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 01: Self-Stigma - When the Diagnosis Becomes the Prison
psychophobia* podcast “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.” — R.D. Laing — — What if the institutions designed to help us…
psychophobia* podcastEpisode 0: Psychophobia* Teaser
What if the institutions designed to help us understand the human psyche are actually afraid of them? Hosted by Dr. Michael R. Montgomery, this podcast…