Brenda LeFrancois – Long Bio
Dr. LeFrançois, an ‘indisciplined’ academic and activist, has been deconstructing psychiatric violence for 20 years. She writes about children’s rights, sanism and building coalitions...
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....
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...
Olga Runciman – Long Bio
DENMARK: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Olga Runciman is an international trainer and speaker as well as writer, campaigner and artist. She sees the hearing...
Jonathan Dosick – Long Bio
TOWARD PEER-FRIENDLY PUBLIC POLICY
Jonathan Dosick is a peer specialist living and working in Central Massachusetts. For the last decade, he has also been an...
Matt Stevenson — Long Bio
Matt Stevenson is a formerly psychotic American man. After suffering through and recovering from severe psychosis, he now works a normal job and is...
Mary Fry, ND – Long Bio
Mary Fry, ND, is a naturopathic physician and the founder of A Healthy State of Mind, LLC. Dr. Fry has a Bachelor’s of Science...
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...
Sascha Altman DuBrul – Long Bio
NAVIGATING THE SPACE BETWEEN BRILLIANCE AND MADNESS
Sascha Altman DuBrul has been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical people’s movements since he was a...
Julia Rucklidge – Long Bio
NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Julia J Rucklidge, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New...
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...
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...
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...
Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz – Long Bio
MIA-UMB NEWS TEAM
Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at UMass Boston. Prior...
Lisbeth Riis Cooper
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...
Idakatherine Graver – Long Bio
Idakatherine Graver was raised in southeast Texas by her classically-trained artist parents. Art was the family religion. She moved west to Santa Fe for...
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD – Long Bio
CHANGE NOW
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, is the owner of WRAP and Recovery Books, and founder of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery. She...
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...
Andrew Thibault – Long Bio
Andrew Thibault is an extremely curious, inconvenient parent. He is Co-Founder of Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse (PAPA), a parent movement opposed to over-diagnosis and...
Steven Morgan – Long Bio
Steven Morgan is Operations Manager and a trainer for Intentional Peer Support. Over the past decade, he’s worked various peer support roles in both...
Brent Potter, PhD – Long Bio
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...
Jacks McNamara – Long Bio
MAKING MEANING OUT OF MADNESS
Jacks Ashley McNamara is a writer, artist, educator, and mental health activist based in Oakland, California. In 2002, they co-founded...
Lois Oppenheim, PhD – Long Bio
Lois Oppenheim, PhD, is Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where...
Barry Haslam – Long Bio
BENZODIAZAPINE DRUGS: MY STORY OF SURVIVAL
Barry Haslam, former chairman of Oldham Tranx, has campaigned in the UK and Europe over the last 28 years...
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...
