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...
Monica Cassani – Long Bio
BEYOND MEDS
Monica Cassani has seen the system from both sides - as a social worker and as a person whose life was severely ruptured...
Pat Bracken, MD – Long Bio
Pat Bracken, MD, is currently Clinical Director of the Mental Health Service in West Cork, Ireland. He trained in medicine and psychiatry in Ireland...
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...
PJ Moynihan – Long Bio
CROSSING OVER
EMMY-nominated Producer PJ Moynihan graduated from Columbia University in 2002 and founded Digital Eyes Film in 2003. His first documentary "Fight Town: Sport...
Lucinda Jewell – Long Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness
Imagine a World where Difference is Celebrated and People everywhere relate to one another as Contribution.
Lucinda Jewell, EdM, is...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
Sheila Matthews – Long Bio
Sheila Matthews, mother of two teenage boys, is the co-founder of AbleChild. She is a resident of Connecticut, and in 2001 was the first mother...
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...
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...
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...
Norman Hoffman, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Norman Hoffman is the Director of MedEgo mental health services, and former Director of the McGill Student Mental Health Service. He has been...
Dorothy Dundas – Long Bio
FINDING RESILIENCE AND HOPE IN THE FACE OF DESPAIR
While institutionalized for three years as an adolescent in the 1960s, Dorothy Dundas was labeled a...
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...
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...
Gretchen LeFever Watson – Long Bio
LIVE AND LEARN
Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist whose research and intervention projects have received international scholarly and media attention, including appearances...
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...
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...
Rufus May – Long Bio
Rufus May has worked for 19 Years as a clinical psychologist in the NHS in England. He is a trustee of the Bradford Soteria...
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...
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...
