Jim Probert – Long Bio
Jim Probert is a psychologist at the University of Florida, and an individual with lived experience of recovery from a diagnoses of severe mental illness including...
Bob Faw – Long Bio
POSITIVELY HEALING: TRANSFORMING VICIOUS CYCLES INTO VITAL CYCLES.
Bob Faw is the President of the Board of the Directors for Vital Cycles and the Director...
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych – Long Bio
PSYCHOLOGY AND THERAPY, INSIDE AND OUT
Director of Changeways Clinic and a practicing psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, Randy Paterson blogs about psychotherapy, mood disorders, mental health...
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....
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...
Serafina B. — Long Bio
Serafina B. is a 36-year-old artist born in Nicuaragua who has won art prizes and has pieces in museum collections. She has been diagnosed with...
Dan Kriegman, PhD – Long Bio
Daniel Kriegman, PhD, a psychologist and writer, was a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England and a faculty member at the Massachusetts...
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...
Luisa Castagnaro – Long Bio
Luisa Castagnaro, MA, is a former teacher of ESL and psychiatric survivor since 1978. After an argument and estrangement with a friend in the...
Sarah Carr, PhD — Long Bio
Dr Sarah Carr is Associate Professor of Mental Health Research, Middlesex University London and also runs her own mental health and social care knowledge...
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...
Kelly Brogan – Long Bio
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...
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...
Cyndi Roberts – Long Bio
Yoga, meditation and nutrition are the practices Cyndi used to save her life after a 12-year battle with severe depression, anxiety and a misdiagnosis of bipolar...
Sandra Steingard, MD – Long Bio
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...
Robert Whitaker – Long Bio
IN THE NEWS
Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and...
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...
Afiya House – Long Bio
A PEER RESPITE HOUSE
Afiya is a part of the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community (www.westernmassrlc.org). They opened on August 4th, 2012 as the first...
Lucinda Jewell – Long Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness
Imagine a World where Difference is Celebrated and People everywhere relate to one another as Contribution.
Lucinda Jewell, EdM, is...
Jennifer Maurer – Long Bio
FINDING OUR WAY HOME
Jennifer Maurer is the managing director for Mother Bear Family Mental Health Network, a nonprofit organization and fund of the Foundation for Excellence...
Peter Breggin, MD – Long Bio
THE BREGGIN BLOG: THE CONSCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRY
Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH. Dr. Breggin has been...
Susan Musante, LPCC – Long Bio
Susan Musante, MS, LPCC, was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska, a model proven to be a highly effective alternative to hospitalization for newly diagnosed...
Sarah Knutson- Long Bio
Sarah Knutson is an ex-lawyer, ex-therapist, survivor-activist. She is an organizer at the Wellness & Recovery Human Rights Campaign. You can reach her at...
Philip Thomas, MD – Long Bio
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...
Tamasin Knight – Long Bio
POWER AND ALTERNATIVES
Tamasin Knight is a public health doctor from England who is interested in power issues in the mental health system and alternatives...
