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Biographies of The Blog Authors

Brent Potter, PhD – Long Bio

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Brent Potter, PhD, has published numerous articles, the book Elements of Self-Destruction, and has three forthcoming books: Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused...

Jen Constantine – Long Bio

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Jen Constantine is a psychiatric system survivor, mental health advocate, wife, and mom. Jen grew up in the Black Hills of rural South Dakota....

Michael Guy Thompson – Long Bio

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R.D. LAING IN AMERICA Psychoanalyst and author Michael Guy Thompson worked with R. D. Laing in London for many years, and was instrumental in the...

Merry Citoli — Long Bio

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Merry Citoli is an award-winning singer/songwriter and screenplay writer whose life went into a downward spiral after being put on lorazepam for insomnia and...

Rachel Waddingham – Long Bio

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ALTERNATIVES IN THE UK Rachel Waddingham is the manager of the London Hearing Voices Project, developing innovative services to support people who hear voices or...

Kelly Brogan – Long Bio

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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...

Suman Fernando – Long Bio

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Suman Fernando was a consultant psychiatrist (now retired) in the British National Health Service for over twenty years until the mid-1990s. Since then he has...

Natalie Tobert, PhD – Long Bio

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Natalie Tobert, PhD, is a British medical anthropologist, who has done original fieldwork research in India, Sudan and UK. She has created a Spiritual...

Kjetil Mellingen – Long Bio

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SEEING THE POSITIVE IN THE NEGATIVE Understanding psychological problems in a positive way and treating them with psychological retraining and reprogramming through CBT and metacognitive...

Michael Corrigan – Long Bio

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DEBUNKING ADHD AND THE DRUGGING OF KIDS Michael W. Corrigan, EdD, is a tenured professor at Marshall University with expertise in Educational Psychology, Human Development, and...

James Davies, PhD – Long Bio

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Dr. James Davies is a co-founder of Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry (CEP). He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a...

Justin Brown – Long Bio

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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...

Anna Thomson — Long Bio

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Anna Thomson, co-director/producer of the Yoghurt Utopia documentary, is a director of documentaries and drama-docs who has worked for Discovery, Nat Geo, History Channel, BBC, Sky Arts and...

Danielle Egan – Long Bio

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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...

Anne Cooke – Long Bio

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Anne Cooke is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She is Principal Lecturer and Clinical Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, Salomons Centre for...

Paula Caplan, PhD – Long Bio

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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...

Jill Littrell, PhD – Long Bio

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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...

Yana Jacobs, MFT – Long Bio

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TRANSFORMING THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM THROUGH PEER-STAFFED RESPITE SYSTEMS Yana Jacobs, MFT, started her work life/ in the mental health field at Soteria House as...

Susan Rogers – Long Bio

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...CHANGING THE THINGS I CAN'T ACCEPT A writer, editor, and advocate, Susan Rogers has been active in the movement for social justice since 1984. She...

Brenda Vezina – Long Bio

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Brenda Vezina has served as Executive Director of the Central MA Recovery Learning Community for the past seven years. Her work in creating a...

Sandra Steingard, MD – Long Bio

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ANATOMY OF A PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE Sandra Steingard, MD, is the Medical Director of HowardCenter and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont...

Philip Thomas, MD – Long Bio

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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...

Madeline Goldstein – Long Bio

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Madeline Goldstein is originally from the Bronx, New York and has done extensive community work throughout her life. She is the editor of two published...

David Guttman — Long Bio

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David Guttman is a father, an entrepreneur and a crossfitter. He is also a voracious reader, a world traveler and president of First Stop...

Lisbeth Riis Cooper

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BRINGING HOPE HOME Lisbeth Riis Cooper is the founder and chairwoman of the Mother Bear Community Action Network, a national network of families dedicated to creating a new mental...