Richard Bentall, MD – Long bio
Psychiatry, Science & Values
Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University and has previously held chairs at Manchester University and Bangor University. He...
James FitzGerald – Long Bio
James FitzGerald is a Toronto-born journalist and author. His first book, Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College, is a controversial inside...
Norbert Wetzel – Long Bio
Norbert Wetzel is an academic teacher and licensed psychologist with extensive experience teaching and practicing systemic Couples and Family Therapy in various academic and...
Deron Drumm – Long Bio
Deron Drumm is the Co-Executive Director of Advocacy Unlimited in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He self-identifies as having experienced extreme, altered and addictive states. He writes and...
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...
Jen Padron, MED, CPS – Long Bio
ON VISIONING A PEER WORKFORCE
Jennifer Maria Padron is a national advocate for mental diversity in community public mental health care, outspoken activist, and a subject...
Cindi Fisher – Long Bio
M.O.M.S.
Cindi Fisher, founder of the organization MOMS, networks moms and others together to advocate for themselves or their loved ones who have experienced trauma...
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...
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...
Kermit Cole – Long Bio
Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open...
Dan Hazen – Long Bio
A CALL TO ACTION: RADICAL SOCIAL CHANGE - FREE THE PEOPLE!
Daniel Hazen is a survivor of the psychiatric and penal systems. Daniel is a...
Chuck Ruby, PhD – Long Bio
OPERATION SPEAK UP
Dr. Ruby earned his PhD in 1995 from the Florida State University. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who...
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...
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...
David Cohen – Long Bio
BEYOND HEALTH AND ILLNESS
David Cohen, PhD, LCSW, is Professor and Marjorie Crump Chair of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs....
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...
Justin Karter – Long Bio
MIA-UMB News Editor
Justin Karter is a writer, researcher and community organizer with graduate degrees in both journalism and community psychology. He brings a particular...
Jacqui Dillon – Long Bio
THE HEARING VOICES MOVEMENT
Jacqui Dillon is a respected speaker, writer, trainer and activist, and has lectured and published worldwide on hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation,...
Scott Spicer, MPH, CPSS – Long Bio
ADVOCACY TO ACTION - BRINGING TO LIGHT THE STRENGTHS AMONG US
Scott Spicer is Founder and Senior Partner of Spicer's Consulting, dedicated to improving health, one...
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...
Eleanor Longden – Long Bio
Eleanor Longden is a doctoral researcher who has lectured and published internationally on aspects of voice hearing, trauma, psychosis, and recovery. She is current coordinator...
Amy Upham – Long Bio
Amy Upham is an Asheville, NC based poet/singer-songwriter and playwright. She has her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Geneseo and has earned her keep for...
Mark Radcliffe – Long Bio
Mark A. Radcliffe is the author of two novels; Gabriel's Angel (2010) and Stranger Than Kindness (2013), he is a long term columnist in...
Wayne Munchel – Long Bio
Wayne Munchel, LCSW, is a leader in mental health programs designed for transition age youth. He was also a founding staff member of The Village,...
Jay Joseph – Long Bio
THE GENE ILLUSION IN PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Jay Joseph, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1998, he has...
