MindFreedom – Long Bio
MindFreedom International is one of the oldest mental health non-profits in existence (25+ years), and has always existed independent of funding from governments, drug...
Alice Keys, MD – Long Bio
NECESSARY PHOENIX: WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP HEAL THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
After she completed medical school in 1983 at Tulane and Charity Hospital of New...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD – Long Bio
PRIMUM NON NOCERE
Joseph Tarantolo, MD, is a so-called Board Certified psychiatrist. He is a therapist and helps patients wean them selves off of psychotropic drugs....
Joanne Cacciatore, PhD – Long Bio
GRIEVING FOR GRIEF
Joanne Cacciatore, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University and founder of the Center for Loss and Trauma and the MISS Foundation....
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...
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...
David Elkins – Long Bio
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...
Michael Baker — Long Bio
Michael Baker is a writer from Ontario, Canada. He believes that self-awareness and acceptance are the keys to mental health. Michael enjoys sharing his...
Matthew Britts – Long Bio
Matthew Britts is a survivor of child abuse and has been working with other survivors for ten years. Matt is currently completing a PhD investigating...
Helene Sandstrom – Long Bio
Helene Sandstrom is a freelance translator, science journalist and former co-editor of The Swedish Journal of Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine, specializing in health, nutrition...
Akiko Hart – Long Bio
Akiko Hart is the Acting Director of Mental Health Europe, and is also the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. Her interests...
Merry Citoli — Long Bio
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...
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...
Tabita Green – Long Bio
OPTIMIZING CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
Tabita Green is an author, speaker, blogger, and community organizer. In 2011, she left her six-digit corporate job to focus on...
Noel Hunter – Long Bio
MADNESS AND MEANING IN THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Noel Hunter A clinical psychologist, Noel specializes in a psychosocial approach to emotional distress. Her work focuses on...
Bertel Rüdinger – Long Bio
THE DELUSIONAL PHARMACIST
Bertel Rüdinger is the only clinical pharmacist in Denmark working with people in supported living. His work focuses on empowering people to...
Peter Lehmann – Long Bio
STOP THE PROFESSIONAL MONOLOGUE
Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor in acknowledgement of "exceptional scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience,"...
Michael Cornwall, PhD – Long Bio
AN ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF MADNESS
Michael Cornwall is a Jungian/Laingian psychotherapist who went through his own intense experience of transformative madness without medication...
Bonnie Schell – Long Bio
ON OUR OWN, TOGETHER
Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005). In the...
Carina Håkansson – Long Bio
ORDINARY LIFE THERAPY
Carina Håkansson is a psychotherapist and manager at Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, which was founded in 1987. Many of the...
Beatrice Birch — Long Bio
Beatrice Birch began her career as a teacher in an inner-city Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner School in Bristol, England in 1975. Deeply inspired by the healing...
Elliot Goldberg, LCSW – Long Bio
GET OFF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
A psychotherapist for over 30 years in the Pacific Northwest, Elliot Goldberg stumbled into the professional rehab world in 2009. He...
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...
Jennifer Bahr, ND – Long Bio
Dr. Jennifer Bahr, ND, is a licensed naturopathic doctor practicing in San Diego, CA. She specializes in the treatment of mental health and endocrine...
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....
