Metzger, Dave. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Towards a critical therapy / Joel Kovel ; with interview by Dave Metzger and Liz Stodt.

Paper on therapy as a critique versus therapy as a fetish presented at the Delaware Valley Mental Foundation in Sept. 1975 and an interview with the author.

August 24, 2025

Social amnesia : a critique of confromist psychology / Russel Jacoby ; interviewed by Dave Metzger and Paul McIsaac.

Critical evaluation of recent developments in “instant health” psychology at the exprense of deep psychoanalysis.

August 24, 2025

Going crazy : the politics of madness / interviews by Paul McIsaac and Dave Metzger.

Janet Gotkin, Anthony Brandt and Debra Steed are interviewed about the experience of institutional psychiatry, and about the labeling and classification of mental illness.

August 24, 2025

The Politics of madness : what is madness? / produced by Dave Metzger and Paul McIsaac.

Documentary on the problem of defining what is madness, and what is simply eccentric and creative behavior. Includes statements by John Parkin, Tony Colletti, Howie and Mary from Project Release, Joel Kovel, Eli Messinger, Norman Pearl and Murray Bookchin.

August 24, 2025

The Politics of madness : is there a radical therapy? / Joel Kovel ; interviewed by Paul McIsaac and Dave Metzger.

Psychoanalyst discusses his efforts to combine Freudian theory to Marxian economic concepts.

August 24, 2025

Mental health in China / Ginger Goldner ; interviewed by Anne Snitow, Dave Metzger and Gail Kunstler.

Psychologist speaks about her six week trip to China in 1972, and then enters into a discussion about her impressions. |r.1. Speech at the Free Association (46 min.) — r.2. Interview about her trip (47 min.).

August 24, 2025