Exiles in the City

Conversation with Jazmine Russell, co-editor and author of "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health," and host of the Depth Work podcast, about the field of mad studies, and her lived experience of psychosis while living in New York City, and thoughts about how the urban environment can be both a stressor and resource..

Conversation with Evan Auguste, assistant professor in the psychology department at John Jay College and editor/author of "The Carceral State, Forensic Psychology, and Black Resistance: Let Them Not Be Forgotten" about the integration of Black psychology and forensic psychology, his time working at Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, and the importance of participating in advocacy with lived experience organizations.

Conversation with Michelle Munson, professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, about using lived experience to inform the training of emerging mental health professionals, and about her forthcoming book on intergenerational trauma and healing that draws on her own family story.

Conversation with Stacy Horn, author of "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York."

Conversation with Sascha Altman Dubrul, co-founder of the Icarus Project and author of “Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer.”

Conversation with Mindy Lewis, author of "Life Inside," about her two year+ involuntary psychiatric hospitalization (between the ages 15 and 18) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Manhattan State Hospital (located on Ward’s Island) in the late 1960’s, as well as her life after and her attempt to make sense of and move on from those experiences.