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Biographies of The Blog Authors

Lucy Costa – Long Bio

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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

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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...

Tom Stockmann, MD – Long Bio

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Robert Whitaker – Long Bio

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Laysha Ostrow, PhD – Long Bio

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,...

Amy Beausang — Long Bio

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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...