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...
Richard Lewis – Long Bio
ADDICTION, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, AND THE DISEASE MODEL
Richard D. Lewis, MEd, has worked with addictions for the past 19 years in a community mental health clinic...
Dr. Erik Monasterio – Long Bio
Originally from Bolivia, but now working and living in New Zealand, Dr. Erik Monasterio is a forensic psychiatrist and senior clinical lecturer with the...
Leah Harris – Long Bio
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...
Serafina B. — Long Bio
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...
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...
Renee M. – Long Bio
Renee M. is a 22-year-old UNCG graduate in Special Education. Falsely diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 19, Renee examines what happened to cause...
Mary Olson – Long Bio
ANATOMY OF A DIALOGUE
Mary Olson, PhD, is the director of the Institute for Dialogic Practice and an international lecturer and trainer in the fields...
Sami Timimi, MD – Long Bio
NO MORE PSYCHIATRIC LABELS: VIEWS OF A CRITICAL PSYCHIATRIST
Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent...
Peter Simons – Long Bio
MIA-UMB NEWS TEAM
Peter Simons comes from a background in the humanities. Before earning a graduate degree in psychology, he studied English, philosophy, and art....
Ronda Richardson — Long Bio
Ronda Richardson is an artist and peer support worker from Canada. She wants to see reforms within smaller communities and rural areas, including more...
Peter Zook – Long Bio
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...
Gina Nikkel, PhD – Long Bio
EXPECT RECOVERY
Gina Nikkel is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at...
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...
Will Hall – Long Bio
LIVING WITH MENTAL DIVERSITY
Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, is a counselor, consultant, and community development worker in private practice with families, individuals, couples and groups. A survivor of...
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...
Douglas Bloch – Long Bio
BEYOND PROZAC: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO TREATING MOOD DISORDERS
Douglas Bloch, MA, is an author, teacher and mental health coach who writes and speaks on...
Ronald Bassman, PhD – Long Bio
RIGHTS, INCLUSION, DIGNITY - RECOVERY
After more than forty years of studying madness or what he prefers to call extreme and diverse mental states, Ron Bassman's beliefs...
Craig B. Wiener, PhD – Long Bio
ADHD: A RETURN TO PSYCHOLOGY
Understanding ADHD as Something That You “Do", Not Something That You “Have"
Dr. Craig B. Wiener is a licensed psychologist based...
Jim Gottstein – Long Bio
LAW, ALTERNATIVES AND CHANGE
James B. (Jim) Gottstein has been practicing law in Alaska since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1978. Informed by his self-described...
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...
Paris Williams – Long Bio
RETHINKING MADNESS
In the midst of a successful career as a hang gliding instructor and competition pilot (winning a World Champion title and multiple National...
Bonnie Burstow, PhD – Long Bio
DECONSTRUCTING THE INSTITUTION
Dr. Bonnie Burstow is a faculty member at University of Toronto, an antipsychiatry activist, a feminist therapist, and a prolific author. She...
Matthew Ladner – Long Bio
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...
AuĂ°ur AxelsdĂłttir – Long Bio
Mindpower
AuĂ°ur AxelsdĂłttir is an occupational therapist from ReykjavĂk, Iceland. She is the director of Hugarafl (e. Mindpower) and recovery center, which operates within the...
