“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— —Stevie Nicks lost her creativity, her zest…
"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 Association once called Robert Whitaker "a…
“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 into his early-onset dementia diagnosis,…
“I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” -- John Keats — Certainty is seductive. It…
psychophobia* podcast '“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves." — Etty Hillesum — — In a Rome Bookstore, Nita stumbled on R.D. Laing’s The Divided Self…
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 culturally protected forms of psychological…
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 endangered by the absence of good ideas.…
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 rooms on earth, the usual assumptions about…
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 explores the uncomfortable questions. Together,…
psychophobia* podcast “Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.” — R.D. Laing — — What if the institutions designed to help us understand the human psyche are actually afraid of…
