Episodes

  • Episode 8 - Rebellious Healing and the Spirit of Peer Work - With Sera Davidow

    Episode 8 - Rebellious Healing and the Spirit of Peer Work - With Sera Davidow
    May 14 2024
    We're joined today by Sera Davidow from Massachusetts, US, for at discussion on peer respites, psychiatric dehumanization and the processes that (re)humanize!

    The episode ends somewhat abruptly, but that's just because I forgot to plan an outro so I kinda just stopped recording. But I did thank Sera for joining KUBAcast, and I wanna do it again here.

    It's was a tremendously fun talk and mostly on the lighter side, althouth the subject matter couldn't be graver. I learned a lot, and I hope you the listener will as well.
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • KUBA-scoop! Inviteret ind i psykiatrien MED mikrofon

    KUBA-scoop! Inviteret ind i psykiatrien MED mikrofon
    Sep 13 2023
    I afsnit 8 er KUBA på besøg i psykiatrien i Randers. Yes, behind enemy lines! Men når det nu alligevel ikke er "enemy lines", så skyldes det, at jeg bliver inviteret åbent og venligt ind, og får lov at sige en kritik højt, som meget sjældent opholder sig inden for psykiatriens vægge.

    Der, hvor jeg trænger allermest til et journalistkursus, er øvelsen i at sige kortere sætninger. Jeg har så meget på hjerte, og det hele vil ud. Men hva pokker, vi lærer hele livet!

    Der bliver ikke lavet nogen banebrydende konklusioner i denne samtale, men som symbol er samtalen alligevel vigtig, synes jeg. Samtalen - og invitationen ind i psykiatrien - symboliserer, at der er flere og flere fagfolk, der tør tage grundlagsdebat og grundlagskritik ind. Og at deltage offentligt i debatten om psykiatrien.

    Go' fornøjelse, og tak til Kristian, Anders og Mette, der var modige nok til at invitere KUBA ind for åben mic!
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    55 mins
  • Episode 7 - It's *still* uncool to call people disordered - Interview w. Noel Hunter

    Episode 7 - It's *still* uncool to call people disordered - Interview w. Noel Hunter
    Aug 24 2023
    In this brilliant talk I speak with US psychologist Noël Hunter.

    Noël is an expert on psychological trauma, a therapist, and an author whose book "Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Service" is a must-read for anyone interested in both psychiatry debate, mental distress and related topics.

    We visist quite a few topics during this one-hour-conversation, and several key points have had staying power with me: Noël's personal story with psychological trauma, the cultural differences between Denmark and the US, and the simultaneous hope-and-despair that seems to be a native setting in those of us who engage in psychiatry-debates.

    I hope that listeners out there will feel inspired to join a rising movement that clamors for an alternative to psychiatric pathologization of mental distress. There are more of us than one would think. If we all speak a little louder and a little clearer, we may yet find each other and pave the way for a new paradigm om mental distress.
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    54 mins
  • Episode 6 - Ligeværd opstår i nedbrydningen af faglig distance

    Episode 6 - Ligeværd opstår i nedbrydningen af faglig distance
    Aug 15 2023
    Episode 6 har fået titlen Ligeværdet opstår i nedbrydningen af faglig distancering – Samtale med Malue, Christina og Christina

    Fordi det var præcis var der skete, den dag jeg interviewede tre fantastiske mennesker på flere tusinde kilometers afstand. Christina, Christina og Malue sad alle tre i Grønland og jeg i Danmark, men trods den geofrafiske afstand lykkedes det i samtalen at skabe et rum for nærvær, sårbarhed, og ærlighed. Det blev for mig en af de der samtaler, som sidder i én længe efter, den er slut.

    Jeg er så glad for at have haft chancen for at tale med Christina, Christina og Malue. Samtalen varer cirka halvanden time med ufiltreret fritænkeri. Samtalen er også tilgængelig på youtube og Facebook hvor der er billede på. Go’ lytning, og vi håber, at samtalen kan inspirere til mange flere snakke og samarbejder derude i både Danmark, Grønland og andre steder, hvor vi trænger til at sætte mennesket før fagsproget.
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Episode 5 - Its very uncool to call people disordered - interview w B Levine

    Episode 5 - Its very uncool to call people disordered - interview w B Levine
    Apr 29 2023
    KUBAcast! is joined by Bruce Levine, a clinical psychologist whose views on psychiatry and psychology could not be more relevant for projekt KUBA's ambitions.

    This was an incredibly fun and insightful interview to do, and we covered a wide range of topics relevant to psychiatry debate. The 17th century free-thinker/philosopher Baruch de Spinoza is invoked several times during our talks, and acts as sort of an anchor for different discussions on the fallacies of the pathologizing psychiatric paradigm.

    Happy listenin' everyone!
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 4 - Offering an alternative to psychiatry - Interview with LSLCS

    Episode 4 - Offering an alternative to psychiatry - Interview with LSLCS
    Mar 15 2023
    Welcome to episode 4!

    This fourth episode of KUBAcast is in English, since today we've got Simon Richardson from the Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service (LSLCS) on! The LSLCS is an organization founded and run by people with lived experiences with mental distress, and Simon offers invaluable insight into the operations of an alternative to psychiatric evaluation, hospitalization and support.

    There are several important keynotes in this episode, and I've highlighted a few here, and I will be discussing these matters further in future episodes and debates:

    - The importance of lived experience as an anchor for the approach to mental distress rather than profession.

    - The importance of "sitting with someone's distress".

    - The benefit from approaching people in mental distress as equals who are experts in their own lives.


    - The offering of a choice: What does the mentally distressed person want? Some may want psychiatric pathologicalization, which is fine. Others might prefer people to talk to in equal, nonjudgemental (nonevaluating) settings.

    I hope you enjoy this episode! It's safe to say that Projekt KUBA will take Simon and the LSLCS up on their gracious invitation to come see their work in practice.
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    50 mins
  • KUBAcast episode 3 - Samtale mellem reform og revolution

    KUBAcast episode 3 - Samtale mellem reform og revolution
    Nov 6 2022
    I dagens KUBA-cast gæster Trine Torp podcasten. Vi har en spændende samtale om, hvordan man bedst skaber reel forandring i verden. Jeg interviewede Trine i hendes allersidste dage som folketingsmedlem, og afsnittet har fået titlen "Samtale mellem reform og revolution", fordi jeg (som så ofte) positionerer mig revolutionært i forhold til fx psykiatrien, hvor politikere oftest positionerer sig reformistisk... Selv om Trine i dén grad har været en af de modigste politikere i forhold til psykiatriens svære spørgsmål. I "Sygkiatri Fordi" taler jeg kort om Debatten med Clement Kjærsgaard, om et debatarrangement jeg deltog i, samt et debatindlægmodsvar, jeg har fået. God lytning!

    Kontakt: podcast@projektkuba.dk
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 2 - Psykiatrihistorie og hvordan endte vi her?

    Episode 2 - Psykiatrihistorie og hvordan endte vi her?
    Oct 8 2022
    I episode 2 har KUBAcast været så ufatteligt heldige at lande en vaskeægte historiker til at gøre os klogere på et spørgsmål, der har undret længe: Hvordan er vi egentligt endt med en lægefagligt ledet, lægefagligt defineret psykiatri, som antager at psykisk lidelse er sygdom? Og kan man med historiefaglige briller blive klogere på det? Introsegmentet "Sygkiatri Fordi" omtaler også et nyligt debatindlæg i Politiken, som er et modsvar til en kritisk kronik forfattet af Projekt KUBA.
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    41 mins