Chris Gordon, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Christopher Gordon is a board member of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and Medical Director and Senior Vice President for...
Paul Andrews – Long Bio
Paul W. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. He has a PhD in...
David Webb – Long Bio
THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE
After surviving “four years of madness”, David Webb looked into the formal study of suicide (Suicidology) and was taken aback to find...
Brenda Vezina – Long Bio
Brenda Vezina has served as Executive Director of the Central MA Recovery Learning Community for the past seven years. Her work in creating a...
Clair Bien – Long Bio
Hearing Voices, Living Fully
Claire Bien, M.Ed., is a writer and grant writer at The Connection. She is also a voice hearer and formed the Hearing...
Hilary Bryant – Long Bio
Hilary Bryant is the Holistic Health Coordinator and Yoga Instructor for Toivo by Advocacy Unlimited, a mind-body center in Hartford, CT that believes that no...
Mark Ragins, MD – Long Bio
A ROAD TO RECOVERY
Mark Ragins, MD, is the Medical Director at the MHA Village Integrated Service Agency in Long Beach, California, an award winning model...
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...
Sheralyn Rose, PhD – Long Bio
Sheryl Rose is a medical sociologist who has had a lengthy career as a health practitioner and policy consultant journeying from the remote jungles of Papua...
Lisa D. – Long Bio
Lisa D. is a psychiatric survivor, wife, and mother of five adopted children who owns and operates an off-premise catering company with her husband....
Steve Stone – Long/Short Bio
Steve Stone is the Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County. He has worked in the community mental health field...
Pat Risser – Long Bio
Pat Risser is an award-winning trainer, facilitator, speaker, author and consultant. He has been a human rights activist and mental health advocate for over...
NCMHR – Long Bio
The National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR) works to ensure that consumer/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care,...
Ron Unger – Long Bio
DIALOGUES WITH MADNESS
Ron Unger, LCSW, is a therapist and educator specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, and in understanding and working with the relationships between trauma...
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...
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...
Claudia Gold, MD – Long Bio
THE SILENCED CHILD
Claudia M. Gold, MD, is a pediatrician and writer with a long-standing interest in addressing children’s mental health needs in a preventive...
Michael Gilbert, PsyD – Long Bio
SCHOOL MATTERS
Michael Gilbert, PsyD, has over 23 years of experience working with children and families, including in foster care, group home, and hospital settings....
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...
Melissa Bond – Long Bio
KILLER BRAIN CANDY: ONE WOMAN'S ODYSSEY THROUGH BENZODIAZEPINE ADDICTION AND WITHDRAWAL OR HOW CHICKEN LITTLE GOT HER HEAD CRUSHED
Melissa Bond describes the history of...
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD – Long Bio
THINKING HOLISTICALLY
Libby Stuyt, MD, is the Medical Director for the Circle Program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, Colorado, a 90-day inpatient...
Twilah Hiari — Long Bio
Twilah Hiari explores how the siloed and overspecialized nature of Western medicine can result in misdiagnosis and improper treatment. She explores how clinician biases...
Gretchen LeFever Watson – Long Bio
LIVE AND LEARN
Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist whose research and intervention projects have received international scholarly and media attention, including appearances...
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...
Vlado C. — Long Bio
Vlado C's first exposure to psychiatry came in his thirties when an antidepressant prescription for mild symptoms turned into a full blown crisis and...
