Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy – Short 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...
Niall McClaren – Op-Ed Bio
Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who worked 25yrs in the remote north of the country. He occupies himself delving into the philosophical basis...
Elayne Clift – Op-ed bio
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,...
Phil Borges – Op-Ed Bio
For more than 25 years, Phil has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges they face. His...
Jean Davison – Op-Ed
Jean Davison is an author, speaker and mental health worker/trainer in the UK. Her memoir, The Dark Threads (Accent Press), is about her experiences as...
Nev Jones – Op-Ed Bio
Nev Jones is the Co-Director of LERN, a doctoral candidate in community psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, and the director and founder of Chicago Hearing Voices. Prior...
Anne Cooke – Short Bio
Anne Cooke is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She is Principal Lecturer and Clinical Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, Salomons Centre for...
Kirk Schneider – Op-Ed Bio
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is the past editor of the Journal...
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...
Christopher James Dubey – Short Bio
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.
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...
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...
Stephen LaCorte – Op-Ed Bio
Stephen LaCorte is an attorney in Texas who has worked in the oil and gas industry. He was harmed by benzodiazepines after being negligently...
Alesandra Rain
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...
Jan Haaken, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Jan Haaken is professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and documentary filmmaker. Haaken has published extensively...
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:...
Ally Nugent – Op-Ed Bio
Injured by Psychiatry: Ally Nugent is an activist and a psychiatric survivor. She writes and speaks about benzodiazepine iatrogenesis, as well as psychiatric survivor...
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...
Jen Constantine – Op-Ed Bio
Jen Constantine is a psychiatric system survivor, mental health advocate, wife, and mom. Jen grew up in the Black Hills of rural South Dakota....
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...
Charles Duncan Wright, MD – Short Bio
Duncan Wright, MD, is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network and lives in Philadelphia.
Mary Jackson – Op-Ed Bio
Mary Strong Jackson lives in Santa Fe, NM. She is a poet who supervises a psycho-social rehabilitation facility for adults with mental illness and/or...
Peter Zook – Long Bio
Peter Zook is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in clinical social work at Temple University. He is also a research assistant with the Temple...
Julie Wood – Short Bio
Julie is a CPA, CA and MBA who changed careers when she lost her son, John David, to the effects of psychiatric drugs in...
Val Marsh – Op-ed Bio
Valerie L. Marsh, MSW, is Executive Director of the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR). Marsh received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social...
