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...
Cathy Levin – Op-Ed Bio
Cathy A. Levin has been an intelligent, adept organizer in the Recovery Movement in Massachusetts. She led the Emergency Room Rights Campaign, a legislative...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Julie Leonovs – Op-Ed Bio
After a masters in Psychological Research Methods and a degree in psychology, Julie’s main focus has now switched to the myth of psychiatric diagnosis...
Johanna Ryan – Op-Ed Bio
Johanna Ryan is a workers’ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain disease,...
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.
Op-Ed Bio
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...
Emma Bragdon, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Dr. Bragdon is Founder/Director of Integrative Mental Health for You. She was licensed as a psychotherapist in 1988 but has mainly been teaching experiential courses...
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...
Peter Kinderman – Short Bio
Peter Kinderman is Professor of Clinical Psychology and an honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Mersey Care NHS Trust. He is Head of the Institute...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Dennis Embry – Op-Ed Bio
Dennis D. Embry is a prominent prevention scientist in the United States and Canada, trained as clinician and developmental and child psychologist. He is...
Martyn Pickersgill, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Martyn Pickersgill, PhD, is Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He was written widely on the social,...
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...
Matthew Morris – Op-Ed Bio
Matthew is the Operational Director for Stepping Stones Community Outreach, which is based in Ipswich in the UK. Stepping Stones Community Outreach is part...
Michelle Fouts – Op-Ed Bio
Michele Fouts is a Licensed Psychologist and the Director of the Sapphire Center in New Haven, Vermont. She also maintains a small private practice...
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....
David Lawrence – Op-ed Bio
David Lawrence is a voice hearer who tries to understand as much about the human condition as possible. He is also a writer/advocate who...
Elahe Hessamfar – Short Bio
Elahe Hessamfar is a former business executive and has a PhD in Divinity from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She has an MA...
