Talk with Tenney

🎙️ Talk with Tenney: Gerrit Smith’s Letter and the 1859 Jerry Day Controversy In this episode of Talk with Tenney, Lauren Tenney revisits a powerful moment in abolitionist history. She reads Gerrit Smith’s 1859 letter to the Jerry Day Celebration Committee, in which Smith declines an invitation to preside over the event—declaring that only blood and insurrection could now end slavery. This incendi...

Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 2:00 PM Eastern join Talk with Tenney for a chat with Mary Maddock of MindFreedom International! MindFreedom Ireland is holding their first electroshock protest in Dublin on Sunday, May 28, 2023! Tune in to Talk with Tenney for a chat with Mary Maddock on MindFreedom Ireland's 20th Anniversary (2023)! Check out Mary & Jim Maddock's Soul Survivor: A Personal Encounter wi...

CENSOR DESANTIS IS HERE TO PROTECT US . . . AGAIN! Governor DeSantis Plans to Hold Higher Ed Captive, The Florida College System Presidents Remove DEI, CRT, and Personal Identity from Public Colleges and Universities Across Florida as of February 1, 2023.  WHAT:    When it comes to protecting and promoting human rights it is heinous what is happening in the State of Florida's already severely comp...

I don't know if I'm going to be able to pull this off, but my plan is to try to read this on Talk with Tenney on Blog Talk Radio while I stream the document I am reading and live editing on Twitch. This is a live reading of Lauretta Bender, M.D.: The Children's Shock Doc as I prepare to send it for publication.  References are at the end of the recording. I go back and forth about whether to read...

12/22/2021 6PM EST Call in to talk with Chaya!: (914) 205-5794!  On this show Chaya Grossberg will discuss with Lauren Tenney her work consulting with people coming off psychiatric drugs, what helps them the most, and her other experience working with people in withdrawal from psych meds. She will share wisdom gained from 15 years of professional experience working non-medically with people seekin...

During the spring of 2015 I began a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exchanges with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration. FOIA (FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT) RESULTS OF THE VA FROM 2015. This is a 2021 Veterans Day Reading of "Electroshocking Veterans and Their Fetuses" by Lauren Tenney first published in 2015 i n Mad in America.  Electroshocking Veterans and...

On Sunday, October 17, 2021, join Talk with Tenney with guest Felice Eliscu, Human Rights Advocate, who will talk about the new proposed Federal Legislation: A.C.C.A. and Placements for Youth that are Completely Unregulated and Abusive. We will discuss what some of these treatments are and how they cause Trauma instead of help and how you can help stop it.   Institutional Abuse Awareness Week is f...

On February 12, 2021, with more than one dozen co-sponsors and one dozen multi-sponsors, the new involuntary outpatient commitment bill in New York State, sponsored by Assemblywoman Gunther, titled, "An act to amend the mental hygiene law and the correction law, in relation to enhancing the assisted outpatient treatment program; and to amend Kendra's Law, in relation to making the provisions there...

 Call in (914) 205-5794 to talk with poet and visual artist Jyl Anais on October 31, 2020 from 9PM - 11PM Eastern on Talk with Tenney!   Jyl Anais is a poet and visual artist who works at the intersections of a variety of media. Her debut poetry collection, Soft Out Spoken, was released in 2019. Jyl’s work appears in We Are The Changemakers, Protectors 2: Heroes, and Asylum Magazine for Democratic...

Kathy Flaherty has lived at the intersection of mental health and the law since her first 1L year at Harvard Law School, when she was civilly committed to a psychiatric hospital. She interned for Connecticut Legal Rights Project (CLRP) after her second 1L year, back in the early 1990's. Kathy has been the Executive Director of CLRP since 2015. CLRP provides legal representation to people eligible...

Call in to talk with Jacob Moses (914) 205-5794 and hear about his newest publication, Seance, October 24, 2020 at 9:00 PM Eastern 6:00  PM Pacific on Talk with Tenney.  Jacob Moses (AKA Jack M. Freedman) is a poet and spoken word artist from Staten Island, NY. Publications featuring his work span the globe. Countries include USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Bangladesh,...

Hi Everyone - Tonight 10/23 @9PM Eastern! Call in 914-205-5794! I will be reading an unpublished manuscript concerning the history of the use of electric shock treatment (ECT, electroconvulsive treatment) on children. I will also discuss how Lauretta Bender, MD, the psychiatrist who created the diagnosis of childhood autistic schizophrenia popularized the use of shock treatment on children and her...

Call in 914-205-5794 Part 3 of Mad Annals The Suppression of Challenges to the Biomedical Model by the Leaders of the Field Dates Back to the Early Twentieth Century

Call in (914) 205-5794 to talk with. Join me as I continue reading Chapter 9, Mad Annals #BehindTheScenes - I am recording this reading to incorporate edited clips into Mental American Monster: The Sprawl of American Psychiatry a #TrueHorror #HorrorHistory #History   Help me test the technology of the new platform!  Upcoming Shows:  Oct. 24, 2020 Jacob Moses Oct. 28 Kathy Flaherty Oct 31 Jyl Anais

914-205-5794 Call in! Say hi! #BehindTheScenes Tonight I am reading some of the history about psychiatry that I wrote to capture a recording of it to edit into Mental American Monster: The Sprawl of American Psychiatry! #MAMMonster #TheSprawlOfAmericanPsychiatry Obviously, I will not get through the whole reading tonight.  I will start with  Chapter Nine: Mad Annals...................................

Guest Call In number: (914) 205-5794 You don't have to be mad to call in. It helps.  Talk with Tenney tonight: Testing the streaming platforms gearing up for the new season!  Help me through the hiccups! Wild Card Open Lines

Allegations of regulatory misconduct against the NewYork State Office of Mental Health, Butler Hospital, and others filed with the FDA.  Here is the full article: https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/ect-regulatory-misconduct-filed-fda/ #FDAStopTheShockDevice. Talk with Tenney is going live. 9PM Eastern Sunday, May 24, 2020  More to follow.  Stay tuned! follow/like for instant upddates. Thanks!  

Late Night with Hero host Yvonne Smith has on this Sunday3 solid  Advocates ANn McDaniel of State indepent living council and John McAtte of WV Leadersip Academy Renta Pore of Affordable HealthCare WV  Please call in 267 521 0167 or listen on line. 830pm Eastern  p730m Central 630pm Mtn 530pm Pacific      ,  Ann McDaniel is the Executive Director of the West Virginia Statewide Independent Living C...

Last week Repeal of Obama Care was withdrawn but Repel fanatics are back. What  would a health care system that  serves the needs of your state look like. Congress seems intent on still robbing the poor and disabled for tax cuts. How is Medicad handled in your state what is happening.  How also will the other Billion dollar cuts for other social programs effect you and others. What invincible type...

Once you know a crucial fact about what gets called "mental illness", the debate about whether or not President Donald J. Trump is "mentally ill" disappears, and what is left is what really matters. What really matters is that President Trump apparently has no desire to change behavior that has been described as totally self-absorbed, self-referential, misogynist, racist, xenophobic, and otherwise...

Call (267)521-0167 to Speak with Dr. Bonnie Burstow and Associated Scholars about groundbreaking advances in antipsychiatry on February 17, 2017 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM Eastern - This show is coming in midst of the triumph of a scholarship, the relentless media backlash against the scholarship and two highly significant book launches. In October of 2016 Dr. Bonnie Burstow endowed a matching scholarshi...

Join Yvonne Smith on Late Night with Hero with Ron Manderscheid, Ph. D.Call in at (267)521-0167 on December 11, 2016 at 9PM Eastern, 8PM Central, 7PM Mountain, 6PM Pacific. This week, Yvonne's guest is Ron Manderscheid, Ph. D. Executive Director of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors and the National Association for Rural Mental Health. HR 34...

On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 9PM Eastern, call in to (267)521-0167 to be part of the program.  This is an urgent call for you to speak out to your legislators.   On this show, Yvonne Smith, Lauren Tenney, and others will discuss things that you can talk about with your Senators AND Representatives concerning the scam of amending the Tsunami Warning, Education, and Research Act of 2015 H.R. 34 as...

This is a general call in  267 521 0167 8 pm Eastern 5pm Pacific. Yvonne Smith your host will be taking live calls at (267)521-0167.  If you would like to be a formal guest, contact Yvonne before the show. The Nation is clearly divided.  Half the people are happy. Others are grief stricken.  Where do we go from here? We are at the cross roads of either growth or the demise of the naton. Where do y...

On November  6, 2016 from 9-11PM Eastern Join Late Night with a Hero with Host Yvonne Smith. Guests include: Val Marsh and others for a LIVE CALL-IN Show on the 2016 Presidential Election. Call in and and tell us what is up in your state including Congress and Senate elections. (267)521-0167