![Madness Radio - Voices and Visions From Outside Mental Health show](https://d3dthqtvwic6y7.cloudfront.net/podcast-covers/000/039/251/small/madness-radio-voices-and-visions-from-outside-mental-health.jpg)
Summary: Is poetry the way to truly understand madness? Do rituals and music -- such as Ireland's tradition of keening -- have the power to heal emotional suffering? Susan McKeown, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and folklorist, supported her partner through an extreme state. She began a journey to uncover intergenerational trauma in her family and in the history of her native Ireland, and was inspired to take poems about madness -- by Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, James Clarence Mangan, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others -- and set them to music in her album "Singing in the Dark." http://www.susanmckeown.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=affyiDgfIbE http://irishphiladelphia.com/singinginthedark