The Infinite Mind/LCMedia Online Store : CDs/Transcripts of award-winning public radio show : An Educated Consumer
This week on the Infinite Mind we’re talking about what makes AN EDUCATED CONSUMER. And we’re not talking about socially conscious shopping. We explore the growing empowerment of tens of millions of Americans who are consumers of mental health services. We’ll learn how people with mental illness are taking control of their own health care and advocating for their rights. Dr. Peter Kramer is our host. Guests include Moe Armstrong, who has schizophrenia and who talks about his experiences with the mental health system in the 1960s. We’ll speak with Larry Fricks, who has bipolar disorder and who started a movement of people in recovery from mental illness. He now directs consumer relations and recovery for the state of Georgia. And we visit an innovative peer specialist program in Georgia, where people who’ve experienced mental illness are employed to help others in their recovery. We’ll talk with Duke University researcher, Dr. Eric Elbogen, who studies psychiatric advance directives that allow people to give doctors instructions and plan for their own treatment if they have a psychotic episode. And we’ll hear an excerpt from Charles Barber’s memoir, Songs from the Black Chair, in which he struggles as a social worker about whether to divulge his own experience with obsessive compulsive disorder. With commentary from John Hockenberry.
