# system abolition (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover system abolition. Page: Feed: --- ## [Compassionate Therapy | Michael Montgomery | Madness Radio](https://www.madnessradio.net/compassionate-therapy-michael-montgomery-madness-radio/) _2025-09-24 · Madness Radio_ Can psychotherapy work against the mainstream system? What does it take to be truly compassionate as a professional? And what are the downsides of promising alternatives such as Open Dialogue? Michael Montgomery grew up in Ireland and experienced firsthand the impacts of trauma and violence; a meeting with a visionary friend introduced him to psychiatric oppression. Today he is an existential… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.madnessradio.net/audio/MadnessRadio2025-09-17CompassionateTherapyMichaelMontgomery58MIN.mp3) ## [Schizophrenia Shamanism and Family | Dick Russell | Madness Radio](https://www.madnessradio.net/schizophrenia-shamanism-and-family-dick-russell-madness-radio/) _2025-08-22 · Madness Radio_ Is “schizophrenia” a broken brain — or shamanic journeying to ancestral dimensions? Is being “out of touch with reality” actually visions of deeper truth and racial healing? Dick Russell – author of 17 books including on the JFK assassination and a biography of Jungian James Hillman – followed doctors’ advice when his son Franklin was diagnosed psychotic. But Franklin, who is of mixed race, only… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.madnessradio.net/audio/MadnessRadio2025-08-15SchizophreniaShamanismFamilyDickRussell58MIN.mp3) ## [Sex Drugs Harm Reduction | Caty Simon | Madness Radio](https://www.madnessradio.net/sex-drugs-harm-reduction-caty-simon/) _2025-01-21 · Madness Radio_ How do decriminalizing drug use and sex work advance mad liberation? What lessons can psychiatric survivors learn from the harm reduction movement? Caty Simon’s activist leadership spans the low-income rights, psychiatric survivors, sex worker, and drug users union movements, and she was a key organizer at Freedom Center in Western Massachusetts. Caty is on the leadership team of National… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.madnessradio.net/audio/MadnessRadio2025-01-01SexDrugsHarmReductionCatySimon58MIN.mp3) ## [Escaped Lunatic | Irit Shimrat | Madness Radio](https://www.madnessradio.net/escaped-lunatic-irit-shimrat-madness-radio/) _2024-11-07 · Madness Radio_ Legendary psychiatric survivor activist Irit Shimrat escaped psychiatric incarceration to become a leading anti-psychiatry organizer. Co-founder of the Ontario Psychiatric Survivors’ Alliance, Irit edited the Canadian magazine Phoenix Rising: The Voice of the Psychiatrized and wrote Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement, bringing together the stories of many leading activists. Irit shares… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/www.madnessradio.net/audio/MadnessRadio2024-11-05EscapedLunaticIritShimrat58MIN.mp3)