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Timothy N. is a Team Counselor with Windhorse Integrative Mental Health, and he co-facilitates an Unusual Beliefs group and a Hearing Voices group. He recently...

Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician who practiced holistic (non-drug) mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in...

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...

CORNERSTONE OF MENTAL HEALTH Jon Keyes, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor working in private practice at Hearthside Healing in Portland Oregon. As a holistic mental health therapist. He is often...

POLITICAL SCIENCE Christian Exoo is a writer and Building Supervisor at the St. Lawrence University Libraries, where he provides research and bibliographic instruction. His work...

Dick Russell is the author of twelve books on a wide range of subjects. These include My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and...

THE MYTH OF NORMAL Justin Brown identifies as a person in recovery who voluntarily takes psychotropic medication. Justin is passionate about self-determination and his opposition to involuntary...

In The Daisy Project, Daisy’s upcoming book, she shares her insider knowledge as a former mental health nurse and as a former psychiatric patient....

Elayne Clift writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River, Vermont. She has written extensively on issues relating to mental health, women, politics,...

Rachel Cooper's major research interests lie within the philosophy of science and medicine, especially philosophy of psychiatry. Her research focuses on conceptual problems around psychiatric classification,...

David Lawrence is a voice hearer who tries to understand as much about the human condition as possible. He is also a writer/advocate who...

Mary Fry, ND, is a naturopathic physician and the founder of A Healthy State of Mind, LLC. Dr. Fry has a Bachelor’s of Science...

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...

Mariaelena Bartesaghi teaches Communication at the University Of South Florida. Her research on psychiatry as an institutional discourse of authority has been published in various...

NAVIGATING THE SPACE BETWEEN BRILLIANCE AND MADNESS Sascha Altman DuBrul has been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical people’s movements since he was a...

BEHAVIORISM AND MENTAL HEALTH Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist.  He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers, nursing...

Reid Bertino is a 30 year old man with a long history with the mental health system. From start to finish, the mental health...

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...

For the past twelve years, Al Galves, PhD, has been fighting biopsychiatry and advocating for safe, humane, life-enhancing approaches to helping people who are experiencing emotional...

Matthew Ladner has been an active peer supporter at Soteria-Alaska since January of 2011. Throughout his consumer and peer experiences within the mental health system...

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,...

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...

Peter Zook is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in clinical social work at Temple University. He is also a research assistant with the Temple...

Corrine A. Taylor shares her story at www.theProject321.com for awareness, empowerment and change toward living a well life after experiencing trauma. Having used psychiatric services unsuccessfully for...

Serafina B. is a 36-year-old artist born in Nicuaragua who has won art prizes and has pieces in museum collections.  She has been diagnosed with...