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KID'S VOICE – PROMOTING RESILIENCY: RETHINKING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN Vicki Martin, MD, is a board certified child & adolescent psychiatrist with over...

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...

Dick Russell is the author of twelve books on a wide range of subjects. These include My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and...

Steve McCrea, MS, is a mental health professional, advocate and author living with his wife, Ginny, in Portland, OR. He has worked for over...

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...

Patrick Landman, MD, is a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and lawyer. He is former chairman of the Convention Psychanalytique, former chairman of Espace Analytique, and...

Elizabeth Kenny is an actor, playwright, teacher, and lecturer. She has been working in the professional theater since 1993 and became an Artistic Associate at...

CRAZY LIKE US Ethan Watters is a journalist and speaker who has spent the last two decades writing about psychiatry and social psychology. He is...

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...

NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH Bonnie J. Kaplan, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine (Department of Paediatrics, Department of Community Health Sciences) at the University of...

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...

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...

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...

Mindpower Auður Axelsdóttir is an occupational therapist from Reykjavík, Iceland. She is the director of Hugarafl (e. Mindpower) and recovery center, which operates within the...

THE STAR*D FRAUD A licensed psychologist in Columbia, Ed Pigott, MD, has published 16 journal articles and contributed to three books, two of which were published...

Elayne Clift writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River, Vermont. She has written extensively on issues relating to mental health, women, politics,...

MAD LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Tina Minkowitz is president and founder of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.  She...

RECOUNTING CHIMERA Sean Donovan, after surviving more than a decade of psychiatric abuse, less-than-voluntary objectification through clinical trials and emotional turmoil, exhibits little patience for...

THE MEANING REVOLUTION Dr. Eric Maisel is the author of more than 40 books in the areas of creativity, meaning and mental health. A licensed...

Carrie Foulkes is an interdisciplinary poet and artist based in London, England. Her practice-based research explores themes of interconnectivity, non-linearity and chance through various...

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...

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...

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...

Christopher James Dubey is the author of the novel Assignment Yggdrasil, a sci-fi technothriller with strong antipsychiatry themes, which is currently published by Andrews UK. He possesses a...

WELLNESS WORDWORKS Corinna West is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and community organizer. She founded Wellness Wordworks in 2008 to show how the recovery community can...