John Breeding, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
John Breeding, PhD, is a psychologist with a well-established private counseling practice in Austin, Texas. A significant part of his work involves counseling with...
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Catherine Clarke is a former nurse (SRN), midwife (SCM) and chiropodist (MSSCH MBChA.) Following her son’s violent propulsion into the mental health system, she...
Niall McLaren – Short Bio
Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist, author, and critic (in no particular order). He has practiced psychiatry in remote areas and stayed passably sane...
Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...
Sheralyn Rose, PhD – Op-Ed 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...
Alesandra Rain – Op-Ed Bio
Alesandra Rain is an author and prescription drug expert for the O-Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel and ABC, lectures worldwide and is frequently a...
Katie Higgins – Op-Ed Bio
Katie Higgins has been a registered nurse since 1974 and an adolescent psychiatry nurse since 1988. She has worked in child psychiatry at Johns...
Vera Sharav – Op-Ed Bio
Vera Sharav, a professional law librarian turned public advocate for human rights, is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection...
Gary Kohls – Op-Ed Bio
Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician who practiced holistic (non-drug) mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in...
David Elkins – Op-Ed Bio
David N. Elkins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a professor emeritus of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine...
Tracey Cannon – Op-Ed Bio
Tracey Cannon is a ‘nearly 50’ year-old artist and social change activist who lives in an amazing home overlooking the beautiful New Zealand rainforest...
Redmond O’Hanlon – Long Bio
Redmond O'Hanlon is an academic who has taught university courses in Ireland, the U.S. and Oxford, where he wrote his doctorate. He is at present...
Amber Gum – Op-ed Bio
Amber Gum is a professor and licensed psychologist. She conducts research to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of behavioral interventions. She has written about...
Margaret Altman – Short Bio
Voiceless in America: Margaret Altman is a crisis intervention specialist and has intervened in many explosive situations within jails, emergency rooms, suicide prevention centers and...
Giovanni Fava – Op-Ed Bio
Giovanni Andrea Fava earned his medical degree from the University of Padova in 1977. In Padova he also completed his residency training in psychiatry. After...
Jonathan Keyes – Short Bio
The Cornerstones of Mental Health: Jon Keyes is a licensed professional counselor working in private practice at Hearthside Healing in Portland Oregon. Jon...
Kathy Brandt – Op-Ed Bio
Kathy Brandt is a vocal advocate for mental health and writes a blog about the issues on her website: www.KathyBrandtAuthor.com. That advocacy and her...
Beatrice Birch — OP-ED 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...
James Davies, PhD – Short Bio
Dr. James Davies is a co-founder of Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry (CEP). He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a...
Richard Lawhern, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Richard (Red) Lawhern's primary interest is correcting the mis-application of psychosomatic medicine to patients who have unexplained chronic pain. In 18+ years of advocacy for...
Andrew Thibault – Short 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...
Jason Renaud – Op-Ed Bio
Jason Renaud is a social justice campaigner living in Oregon. He is a founder of the Mental Health Association of Portland. His film, Alien Boy:...
Dion Zessin – Op-Ed Bio
Dion Zessin is a freelance psychiatric researcher and writer, and author of the book Codex Alternus: A Research Collection of Alternative and Complementary Treatments...
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Jasenn Zaejian worked as a clinical psychologist with severely disturbed folks for more than 40 years. Dr. Zaejian retired to devote his energies to writing...
J. Doe — Op-Ed bio
The author has a BS in Biology/Health Science and went on to complete a professional post-graduate master's program and certification. While starting their career,...
