• You do not have to be good
    Nov 19 2024

    Dr. Devon Price talks with NK about 2022’s Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. Masking is a coping strategy, a way that neurodivergent people (especially autistic people) learn to fit into neurotypical society, with uneven success. But like many coping strategies, masking can do more harm than good in the long run – and the act of unmasking is a small act of resistance against conformity.

    This episode also includes some clips from Autistic Masking & Unmasking, The 4 Types of Autistic Masking, Twice as Hard: Masking Neurodiversity as Black Women, Discover your neurodivergent masks, and Black and Autistic! The Struggle is Real…

    Plus Devon Price recommends Amythest Schaber’s Ask An Autistic series, The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir by Anand Prahlad, and Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale.

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    36 mins
  • I was giving spectrum!
    Nov 5 2024
    Bertranna’s autism makes her obsessed with finding the Truth about neurodiversity. With Ayesha Khan, PhD and The People’s Oracle. Transcript AND INFORMED BY: Unmasking Autism by Devon Price African-Americans With Autism Face Additional Challenges - NPR The Persistent Invisibility of Black Autism - Undark.org The Biology Behind Autism Spectrum Disorder - Yale Medicine Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder - CDC The mother of neurodiversity: how Judy Singer changed the world | Autism | The Guardian Singer’s thesis was included in a British Open University anthology titled Disability Discourse, and is now available in an ebook called Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea Who coined the term ‘neurodiversity?’ It wasn’t Judy Singer, some autistic academics say A correction on the origin of the term ‘neurodiversity’ - Independent Living On the Autism Spectrum (InLiv) On the neurological underpinnings of geekdom - The Atlantic Politicizing Neurodiversity - by P.E. Moskowitz: Empire of Normality by Robert Chapman Neurodiversity and the Pathology Paradigm | Psychology Today Negotiating the Neurodiversity Concept | Psychology Today NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silber Neurodiversity Rewires Conventional Thinking About Brains | WIRED Neurodiversity in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong “The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know” - New York Times Sunday Review Common Biologically Essentialist Language | by Cat Harsis | Medium What If Gay-Rights Advocates’ ‘Born This Way’ Argument Is Wrong? It's time to rethink “born this way,” a phrase that's been key to LGBTQ acceptance | Salon.com ‘Beyond Race’ Biology Course Busts Myths About Human Diversity | College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences | University of Maryland Decolonizing= abolishing bioessentialism & the neurodivergent/ neurotypical binary - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. Psychiatric diagnoses & bioessentialism will not liberate us - Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. What Is a Collectivist Culture? Individualism vs. Collectivism Collective Culture & Mental Wellbeing: What Tanzania Can Teach Us About Mental Health Science is not objective or apolitical - by Ayesha Khan, Ph.D. A Guide to the James Webb Telescope's View of the Universe - New York Times we are all made of starsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    37 mins
  • Prescription drug revolution
    Oct 22 2024

    If depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance, why does everyone think it is?

    Transcript

    WITH:

    • P.E. Moskowitz
    • Micha Frazer-Carroll

    AND INFORMED BY:

    Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation

    Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit - The New York Times

    Emotional Blunting, No Libido, No Life - by P.E. Moskowitz

    Keep the antidepressants away. New study says chemical imbalance in brain isn't causing depression - The Economic Times

    The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - New York Review of Books

    The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books

    Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

    DSM History - Psychiatry.org

    How do new disorders get into the DSM? - Slate

    Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual - Los Angeles Review of Books

    “Scientific Nightmare”: The Backstory of the “DSM” - Los Angeles Review of Books

    Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

    With Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel blew open the memoir as we know it - BBC

    Prozac Nation (2001)

    Prozac: Revolution in a Capsule - The New York Times

    How Prozac entered the lexicon - BBC News

    Renamed Prozac Fuels Women's Health Debate - Washington Post

    After the Boom, No Reason to Smile - Barron's

    Something Happened to U.S. Drug Costs in the 1990s - The New York Times

    Conflicts of interest and DSM-5: the media reaction - Speaking of Medicine and Health

    Many authors of psychiatry bible have industry ties - New Scientist

    Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis - The BMJ

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    26 mins
  • I just felt like this terrible thing...
    Oct 8 2024

    Samara puts her trust in psychiatry to fix her.

    Transcript

    WITH:

    + PUPPYBREATH

    AND INFORMED BY:

    The Ritalin Explosion - PBS FRONTLINE

    Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker

    Strangers To Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv

    Antidepressants rapidly alter brain architecture, study finds - Los Angeles Times

    Breaking Off My Chemical Romance - The Nation

    The Illusions of Psychiatry - The New York Review of Books

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    30 mins
  • She said you keep choosing the pain.
    Sep 24 2024

    After Tina’s dad died, she was devastated. But was her grief “disordered”?

    Transcript

    WITH:

    + Lashanna Williams, A Sacred Passing

    + Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, PhD

    AND INFORMED BY:

    Dying Without Regrets According to a Death Doula - VICE

    Seattle-area grief groups bring mourning into the light - Seattle Times

    What's A Mental Disorder? Even Experts Can't Agree - NPR

    DSM-5-TR turns normal grief into a mental disorder | Miss Foundation

    A History of Prolonged Grief Disorder's Inclusion in the DSM — And What Is Missing From It - Psychiatry At the Margins

    Why was prolonged grief disorder added to the DSM? - American Psychiatric Association

    How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer. - The New York Times

    Prolonged Grief Is Now Labelled a Disorder. Not All Psychiatrists Agree. - VICE

    Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone - Kara Thieleman, Joanne Cacciatore, Shanéa Thoma

    What is good grief support? Exploring the actors and actions in social support after traumatic grief | Miss Foundation

    It’s Mourning in America | The New Yorker

    How People Of Color Can Experience Grief Differently Than White People | HuffPost Life

    Grief, Unmedicated - by P.E. Moskowitz - Mental Hellth

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    40 mins
  • I felt too seen. Um, dragged.
    Sep 24 2024

    Rachel tells NK about the pain of her perfectionism, then NK talks to somatics practitioner B. Stepp and artist Yumi Sakugawa about rewriting internal narratives of shame and punishment.

    Transcript

    WITH:

    + B. Stepp: www.haveheartsomatics.com

    + Yumi Sakugawa: @yumisakugawa

    AND INFORMED BY:

    The dangerous downsides of perfectionism - BBC

    “Multidimensional Perfectionism And DSM-5 Personality Traits” by Joachim Stoeber

    Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard - Literary Hub

    Silent All These Years: On Annie Dillard - The Millions

    Annie Dillard on Creativity and What It Takes to Be a Writer - The Marginalian

    Generative Somatics

    Want to Fix Your Mind? Let Your Body Talk. - The New York Times

    What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change - YES! Magazine

    Brené Brown: Can We Gain Strength From Shame? - NPR

    The Hidden Stress of Growing Up a Child of Immigrants - VICE

    How to Be Less Self-Critical When Perfectionism Is a Trap - The New York Times

    I Finally Accepted Nothing Can Be Perfect - VICE

    Yumi Sakugawa on shame, hiding, paralysis, and making bad art.

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    31 mins
  • Introducing: Basket Case
    Sep 17 2024

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    1 min