Deron Drumm – Long Bio
Deron Drumm is the Co-Executive Director of Advocacy Unlimited in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He self-identifies as having experienced extreme, altered and addictive states. He writes and...
Russell Razzaque, MD – Long Bio
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...
John Read, PhD – Long Bio
John joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, after working for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental...
Laura Delano – Long Bio
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...
Peter Breggin, MD – Long Bio
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...
Lucy Costa – Long Bio
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...
Tom Stockmann, MD – Long Bio
REFLECTIONS OF A UK PSYCHIATRY TRAINEE
Tom Stockmann is a psychiatrist in London. He is critical of what he sees as the existing excessive biomedical emphasis in psychiatry. He is currently training...
Steve McCrea – Long Bio
Steve McCrea, MS, is a mental health professional, advocate and author living with his wife, Ginny, in Portland, OR. He has worked for over...
Jonathan Keyes, LPC – Long Bio
CORNERSTONE OF MENTAL HEALTH
Jon Keyes, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor working in private practice at Hearthside Healing in Portland Oregon. As a holistic mental health therapist. He is often...
Ethan Watters – Long Bio
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...
Kelly Brogan – Long Bio
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...
Philip Thomas, MD – Long Bio
ENGLISH MADNESS
After working as a full-time consultant psychiatrist in the NHS for over twenty years, Philip Thomas, MD, left clinical practice in 2004 to write. He...
China Mills – Long Bio
EXPORTING DISORDERS: GLOBAL MARKETS IN MADNESS
China Mills is a lecturer in Critical Educational Psychology at the University of Sheffield’s School of Education, and is...
Tina Minkowitz – Long Bio
MAD LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Tina Minkowitz is president and founder of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. She...
David Elkins – Long Bio
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...
Carolyn Crowder, PhD – Long Bio
DISCIPLINE, NOT DRUGS
Carolyn Crowder, PhD, attended the University of Arizona and finished her doctorate in 1980. She is a retired psychologist whose primary interest...
Paul Baker – Long Bio
Paul Baker is a community development worker. He is one of the founding members of the Hearing Voices Network in England and INTERVOICE, the...
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD – Long Bio
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...
William Schultz – Long Bio
William Schultz is a doctoral student studying clinical psychology at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. His research interests center on non-reductive approaches to psychiatry...
Jacks McNamara – Long Bio
MAKING MEANING OUT OF MADNESS
Jacks Ashley McNamara is a writer, artist, educator, and mental health activist based in Oakland, California. In 2002, they co-founded...
Robert Whitaker – Long Bio
IN THE NEWS
Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and...
Barry Duncan – Long Bio
CONSUMER VOICE AND CHOICE
Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, is director of the Heart and Soul of Change Project and a therapist, trainer, and researcher with over...
Bob Faw – Long Bio
POSITIVELY HEALING: TRANSFORMING VICIOUS CYCLES INTO VITAL CYCLES.
Bob Faw is the President of the Board of the Directors for Vital Cycles and the Director...
Faith Rhyne – Long Bio
DRAWING NEW LINES
Faith Rhyne is a parent, educator, and a radical mental health activist. She became interested in psychology and psychiatry at age 13,...
Lucy Johnstone – Long Bio
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...
