Will Hall, host of Madness Radio on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, Oregon and a board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland, hosted the “Talk Radio” hour on KBOO Friday, December 23. 

Hall’s guest protects his identity on the show with the pseudonym Emmanuel Goldstein, is a former Oregon State Hospital patient now living in the community under the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) after taking the “guilty except for insanity” plea. The show discusses how the antiquated PSRB system needs to be reformed.

Goldstein’s website is http://www.psrbfairshake.org/

LISTEN on the KBOO website here:  http://kboo.fm/node/32789

Madness Radio: Voices and Visions From Outside Mental Health is a regular FM show produced through WXOJ-LP in Northampton MA, and aired on KWMD in Anchorage Alaska, KBOO in Portland Oregon, and several other stations. Madness Radio is syndicated through the Pacifica community radio network and shows are picked up by stations around the country and internationally. The show is also available online and through iTunes. Hour long shows are produced monthly, with a special 30-minute version also available.

Broadcasting regulary since 2005 (recently producing our 100th show), Madness Radio is co-sponsored by peer run mental health communities Freedom Center, The Icarus Project, and Portland Hearing Voices. Host Will Hall was diagnosed with schizoaffective schizophrenia and works as an advocate, counselor, and educator internationally. Will is co-founder of Freedom Center, one the co-coordinators of The Icarus Project, and director of Portland Hearing Voices, as well as being one of the original organizers that got Valley Free Radio started.