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BEYOND PROZAC: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO TREATING MOOD DISORDERS Douglas Bloch, MA, is an author, teacher and mental health coach who writes and speaks on...

Two years before Julie Greene entered the mental health system, she briefly encountered a religious cult while hitchhiking. She figured out on her own...

MEN ON HOOKS George Atwood, PhD, is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University (retired), where he taught for 41 years. George has devoted...

THIRD PATH PSYCHIATRY Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM, is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the book, A Mind of Your Own and co-editor of the landmark...

CHANGE NOW Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, is the owner of  WRAP and Recovery Books, and founder of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery. She...

RECLAIMING THE UNCONSCIOUS Jay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and mental health activist living in London. Dr Watts had held many senior clinical and...

Robert L. Okin, MD, was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago, and after...

CRAZY LIKE US Ethan Watters is a journalist and speaker who has spent the last two decades writing about psychiatry and social psychology. He is...

POLITICAL SCIENCE Christian Exoo is a writer and Building Supervisor at the St. Lawrence University Libraries, where he provides research and bibliographic instruction. His work...

PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR ACTIVIST TELLS MAD MOVEMENT STORIES FOR JUSTICE After the mental health system abused David with forced psychiatric drugs, solitary confinement, lock ups and...

Dr. Norman Hoffman is the Director of MedEgo mental health services, and former Director of the McGill Student Mental Health Service.  He has been...

COMMONSENSE REBELLION Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists,...

Lucy Costa was born to Azorean parents who immigrated to Toronto, Canada in the early seventies. Currently, Lucy works as an advocate /activist in...

Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...

Originally from Bolivia, but now working and living in New Zealand, Dr. Erik Monasterio is a forensic psychiatrist and senior clinical lecturer with the...

Brian Koehler is an adjunct associate professor in the departments of Social Work and adjunct faculty and supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy...

Steve McCrea, MS, is a mental health professional, advocate and author living with his wife, Ginny, in Portland, OR. He has worked for over...

POLICY FOR RECOVERY Bob Nikkel, MSW, is the Executive Director of the Mad in America Continuing Education Project and is an Associate Professor in the...

MIA-UMB NEWS TEAM Peter Simons comes from a background in the humanities. Before earning a graduate degree in psychology, he studied English, philosophy, and art....

Beatrice Birch began her career as a teacher in an inner-city Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner School in Bristol, England in 1975.  Deeply inspired by the healing...

A DISORDERED WORLD Jeanene Harlick was a newspaper and freelance journalist for several years, until she was lured into the “eating disorders treatment-industrial-complex,” as she...

FIGURING SHIT OUT Amy Biancolli's third book, Figuring Shit Out: Love, Laughter, Suicide, and Survival (2014, Behler Publications), is a memoir of the year following her...

Dennis D. Embry is a prominent prevention scientist in the United States and Canada, trained as clinician and developmental and child psychologist. He is...

The Wrong Profession? Amy Beausang is a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) and certified health coach. She’s also a wife, mom, and group fitness instructor. After...

Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness Imagine a World where Difference is Celebrated and People everywhere relate to one another as Contribution. Lucinda Jewell, EdM, is...