Lucy Costa – Long Bio
Lucy Costa was born to Azorean parents who immigrated to Toronto, Canada in the early seventies. Currently, Lucy works as an advocate /activist in...
Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...
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...
Michael Cornwall, PhD – Long Bio
AN ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF MADNESS
Michael Cornwall is a Jungian/Laingian psychotherapist who went through his own intense experience of transformative madness without medication...
Julie Greene – Long Bio
Two years before Julie Greene entered the mental health system, she briefly encountered a religious cult while hitchhiking. She figured out on her own...
Bruce Levine – Long Bio
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,...
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...
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...
Afiya House – Long Bio
A PEER RESPITE HOUSE
Afiya is a part of the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community (www.westernmassrlc.org). They opened on August 4th, 2012 as the first...
Redmond O’Hanlon – Long Bio
Redmond O'Hanlon is an academic who has taught university courses in Ireland, the U.S. and Oxford, where he wrote his doctorate. He is at present...
Bertel Rüdinger – Long Bio
THE DELUSIONAL PHARMACIST
Bertel Rüdinger is the only clinical pharmacist in Denmark working with people in supported living. His work focuses on empowering people to...
Heather Duke – Long Bio
Heather Duke is a neurofeedback technician at Stone Mountain Center in New Paltz, NY, an outpatient psychotherapy practice that offers neurofeedback among other modalities....
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...
Beatrice Birch — Long Bio
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...
Laysha Ostrow, PhD – Long Bio
Laysha Ostrow is the CEO of Live & Learn, Inc. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2014, and...
Akiko Hart – Long Bio
Akiko Hart is the Acting Director of Mental Health Europe, and is also the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. Her interests...
Brenda Vezina – Long Bio
Brenda Vezina has served as Executive Director of the Central MA Recovery Learning Community for the past seven years. Her work in creating a...
Sarah Carr, PhD — Long Bio
Dr Sarah Carr is Associate Professor of Mental Health Research, Middlesex University London and also runs her own mental health and social care knowledge...
Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson – Long Bio
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,...
Amy Beausang — Long Bio
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...
Leah Harris – Long Bio
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Leah Harris is a mother, storyteller, survivor, and advocate. She has written widely to promote human rights, dignity, healing, and self-determination, and has...
Ken Blatt, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Ken Blatt trained at a time psychiatry was steeped in a humanistic, philosophic and social/relational tradition. Ken believes that over the course of...
Liat Ben-Moshe — Long Bio
Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo. She is currently working on a manuscript examining 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...
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...