Oddball Show
A humorous and thought-provoking interview show hosted by Jason Wright founder of Oddball Magazine, your favorite literary magazine, and Oddball Foundation, a 501(c)3 built to make a difference through creative mental health advocacy.
Oddball Show
All You Need is Love: Al Galves on Demystifying Mental Illness
Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of mental illness, suicide, and involuntary treatment.
Notable Terms, Groups & People:
Law of parsimony: “the principle that the simplest explanation of an event or observation is the preferred explanation,” APA Dictionary of Psychology
MindFreedom International and the MindFreedom Shield
Further Reading:
“Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect,” by Irving Kirsch. (2014). Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 222(3), 128–134. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000176
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Listening to Prozac:: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self by Peter D. Kramer
Mind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience by William R. Uttal
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington
Soteria: Through Madness to Deliverance by Loren Mosher
The Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
