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...
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...
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...
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...
Nesrin Shaheen – Long Bio
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...
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...
Jill Littrell, PhD – Long Bio
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...
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...
Olga Runciman – Long Bio
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...
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...
Susan Musante, LPCC – Long Bio
Susan Musante, MS, LPCC, was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska, a model proven to be a highly effective alternative to hospitalization for newly diagnosed...
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...
Danielle Egan – Long Bio
Danielle Egan is a Vancouver based freelance journalist. Her articles about psychiatric neurosurgeries and bio-medical technologies have been published in many titles, including New Scientist, Vancouver...
Brian Koehler – Long Bio
Brian Koehler is an adjunct associate professor in the departments of Social Work and adjunct faculty and supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy...
Issa Ibrahim – Long Bio
Issa Ibrahim is an artist, writer, musician and filmmaker born in 1965 in Jamaica, New York. He has been the Artist-In-Residence at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Living...
Bonnie Kaplan – Long Bio
NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Bonnie J. Kaplan, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine (Department of Paediatrics, Department of Community Health Sciences) at the University of...
George Atwood, PhD – Long Bio
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...
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...
Mark Ragins, MD – Long Bio
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...
Steve Stone – Long/Short Bio
Steve Stone is the Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County. He has worked in the community mental health field...
Kirk Schneider – Long Bio
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is the past editor of the Journal...
David W. Oaks – Long Bio
PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR ACTIVIST TELLS MAD MOVEMENT STORIES FOR JUSTICE
After the mental health system abused David with forced psychiatric drugs, solitary confinement, lock ups and...
Daniel Mackler – Long Bio
DISPATCHES FROM THE ROAD
Daniel Mackler is the director of the 2008 documentary Take These Broken Wings, on recovery from schizophrenia without medication, and the...
Paul Andrews – Long Bio
Paul W. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. He has a PhD in...
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD – Long Bio
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Manhattan, a freelance writer and author. She is the former Psychology Internship...
