Making Sense of Chaos Maddie Brygel & Jason Weel

Ceara is a 37-year-old psychologist living with terminal illness. On this episode, Ceara speaks about facing her death, how she finds hope in uncertainty, and why she supports voluntary assisted dying.
*Ceara is our first returning guest, and spoke to us back in July 2020.
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Contact Ceara:
Twitter: @CearaRickard
Instagram: @ceararickard
https://www.gofundme.com/f/supporting-cearas-cancer-journey
 

Dr Lars Madsen is a forensic psychologist with 20+ years experience in the treatment of sexual and violent offending.
On this episode, Lars shares anecdotes and insights from experiences across his career. He also discusses a case where he provided psychological assessment & treatment to a child sex murderer, using Forensic Schema Therapy. 
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Twitter: msoc_pod 
 
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode describes heavy content. 
 
Supports: 
Lifeline - 13 11 14
1800 Respect - 1800 737 732
 
Work by Lars: 
Article - Forensic Schema Therapy: The Joker 
Upcoming Talk: Therapy in Confined Spaces: Schema Therapy 
Lars’ Forensic Schema Therapy Course (6-week interactive self-paced online course that introduces therapists to Forensic Schema Therapy (ST-F))
Website
 

James Harding had his own experiences in the criminal justice system. Now he’s a counsellor, and uses his experience to help criminals change their story. 
[Episode hosted by Maddie].
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Twitter: @msoc_pod
SUPPORTS
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636
Mensline - 1300 78 99 78
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Hard Cuddles:
An innovative mental health service that specialises in counselling, forensic counselling, mentoring and peer support facilitated in an outdoor environment.

In this episode we talk to Dr Ray Middleton on the consequences of medicalising psychological suffering into “mental disorders”.
Ray is an independent trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the western diagnostic model of psychiatry.
He is a lead trainer in the Power Threat Meaning Framework - a radically different approach to psychological suffering, which abandons diagnoses altogether, and offers an alternative to seeing oneself as "disordered" or "mentally ill". 
In this episode, Ray shares how his own experiences as a psychiatric patient in the 1990s led to his current work. 
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Twitter: @msoc_pod
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode describes heavy content. 
 
SUPPORTS
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636
 
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About Dr Ray Middleton: 
 
Dr Ray Middleton is an independent trainer in strengths based non-diagnostic approaches to distress, including Trauma Informed Practice and the Power Threat Meaning Framework approach. Ray has a PhD on dialogical/narrative approaches to complex trauma and recently authored a book chapter on innovative trauma informed approaches to people who are homeless. 
Previously, Ray has set up and managed personality disorder services, been a senior care co-coordinator in an early intervention in psychosis service and systemic practitioner within systemic family therapy. 
For training enquiries: 
- Contact Ray at Ray.middleton@ladder4life.com or via his website; www.ladder4life.com

Jess has a background in psychology and criminology, and works in the reintegration space with long term & serious offenders. Jess chats with Jason about the different perspectives of grief, and why we are who we are.
*Apologies for the audio quality in this episode - we appreciate your understanding as we work to improve for future episodes :)
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In this episode, hosts Jason & Maddie reflect on Brock's episode, sharing their personal reflections on suicide, loneliness and fear.
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WARNING: This episode does contain heavy & potentially triggering content. 
SUPPORTS
Lifeline - 13 11 14
Beyond Blue - 1300 22 4636
Griefline - 1300 845 745