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Biographies of The Blog Authors

Russell Razzaque, MD – Long Bio

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DIALOGICAL PSYCHIATRY Genuinely humanistic dialogue should be at the heart of good mental health care. A vast body of research attests to the central role...

Lucy Costa – Long Bio

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Lucy Costa was born to Azorean parents who immigrated to Toronto, Canada in the early seventies. She is deputy executive director of a non-profit...

Laura Delano – Long Bio

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JOURNEYING BACK TO SELF Laura Delano is a psychiatric liberation activist, writer, and community organizer.  She entered the “mental health” system as a thirteen-year old and escaped it...

Kelly Brogan – Long Bio

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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...

Lucy Johnstone – Long Bio

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BEYOND PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS Lucy Johnstone is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry. She has worked...

Jay Watts – Long Bio

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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...

Brian Koehler – Long Bio

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

Nesrin Shaheen – Long Bio

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Nesrin Shaheen is a director and founding president of the Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Foundation in Canada. Her daughter was the first positively identified case...

Julia Rucklidge – Long Bio

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NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH Julia J Rucklidge, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New...

Olga Runciman – Long Bio

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DENMARK: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT Olga Runciman is an international trainer and speaker as well as writer, campaigner and artist. She sees the hearing...

Douglas Bloch – Long Bio

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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...

Howard Glasser – Long Bio

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AWAKENING CHILDREN TO THEIR GREATNESS Howard Glasser is the founder of the Children’s Success Foundation and creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach™ and the Inner...

Norman Hoffman, MD – Long Bio

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

Peter Breggin, MD – Long Bio

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THE BREGGIN BLOG: THE CONSCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRY Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH.  Dr. Breggin has been...

George Atwood, PhD – Long Bio

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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...

Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio

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

David Elkins – Long Bio

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A NONMEDICAL MODEL OF EMOTIONAL HEALING David N. Elkins, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Professor Emeritus of Psychology in the Graduate School...

Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD – Long Bio

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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...

Matt Stevenson — Long Bio

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Matt Stevenson is a formerly psychotic American man. After suffering through and recovering from severe psychosis, he now works a normal job and is...

Jill Littrell, PhD – Long Bio

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LIFE STYLE CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN Jill Littrell, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in the School of Social Work.  Her PhD...

Steve McCrea – Long Bio

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

Beatrice Birch — Long Bio

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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...

Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson – Long Bio

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Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson has been the Parish Minister of the Unitarian Church of Vancouver in British Columbia since 2002. Prior to entering professional ministry,...

Mark Ragins, MD – Long Bio

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A ROAD TO RECOVERY Mark Ragins, MD, is the Medical Director at the MHA Village Integrated Service Agency in Long Beach, California, an award winning model...

Madeline Goldstein – Long Bio

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Madeline Goldstein is originally from the Bronx, New York and has done extensive community work throughout her life. She is the editor of two published...