Joseph Tarantolo, MD – Long Bio
PRIMUM NON NOCERE
Joseph Tarantolo, MD, is a so-called Board Certified psychiatrist. He is a therapist and helps patients wean them selves off of psychotropic drugs....
Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy – Long Bio
The Campaign for REAL Change in Mental Health Policy was initiated in opposition to The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R. 2646), introduced by...
Paula Caplan, PhD – Long Bio
They Say You're Crazy
Paula J. Caplan, PhD, is a clinical and research psychologist, activist, Associate at the DuBois Institute, Harvard University, and the author...
Tracey Libby – Long Bio
Tracey Libby is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Practitioner in private practice in Andover, MA, where she specializes in...
Carina HĂĄkansson – Long Bio
ORDINARY LIFE THERAPY
Carina HĂĄkansson is a psychotherapist and manager at Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, which was founded in 1987. Â Many of the...
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...
Maria Bradshaw – Long Bio
DelusionNZ
Maria Bradshaw lost her only child to SSRI induced suicide in 2008. Co-founder and CEO of CASPER (Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education &...
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...
David Guttman — Long Bio
David Guttman is a father, an entrepreneur and a crossfitter. He is also a voracious reader, a world traveler and president of First Stop...
Dan Kriegman, PhD – Long Bio
Daniel Kriegman, PhD, a psychologist and writer, was a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England and a faculty member at the Massachusetts...
Michael Guy Thompson – Long Bio
R.D. LAING IN AMERICA
Psychoanalyst and author Michael Guy Thompson worked with R. D. Laing in London for many years, and was instrumental in the...
Oryx Cohen – Long Bio
HEALING VOICES
Oryx Cohen is a leader in the international consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. Currently he is the Director of the National Empowerment Center’s Technical Assistance Center....
Timothy Kelly – Long Bio
THE UNCERTAIN REAL
Timothy Kelly is a doctoral student at the University of Iowa with transdisciplinary interests in psychosocial approaches to, and the sociocultural contexts...
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
BRINGING HOPE HOME
Lisbeth Riis Cooper is the founder and chairwoman of the Mother Bear Community Action Network, a national network of families dedicated to creating a new mental...
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...
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...
Jon Jureidini, MD – Long Bio
HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, where he works with ill and disabled children and their...
Lauren Spiro – Long Bio
MENTAL HEALTH LIBERATION
Lauren Spiro’s vision of social justice and mental health liberation fuels her work, which is focused on inspiring compassionate action and spreading innovative...
Brett Collins – Long Bio
Brett Collins has represented detainees, and specifically the interests of prisoners and mental health patients, in Australia and internationally for over thirty years. Â He...
Stuart Shipko, MD – Long Bio
SHOOTING THE ODDS
Stuart Shipko, MD, has been a practicing physician for 34 years. Â Initially an emergency physician and family physician, he later became a...
Robert Nikkel, MSW – Long Bio
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...
Johnathan Leo / Jeffrey Lacasse – Long Bio
RETHINKING THE BROKEN BRAIN
Jonathan Leo, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research examines the biological...
Bridget Mildon – Long Bio
Bridget Mildon is the president and founder of FND Hope. FND Hope is the first non-profit organization specifically for those diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder...
Alec Grant, PhD- Long Bio
TROUBLING MENTAL HEALTH NURSE EDUCATION
Alec Grant, PhD, trained as a mental health nurse in the mid-1970s, and over the next two decades gained a...
Niall McLaren – Long Bio
Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist, author, and critic (in no particular order). He has practiced psychiatry in remote areas and stayed passably sane...
