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:...
Christian Exoo – Short Bio
Political Science:Â Christian Exoo writes on the intersection of science and politics in the mental health community.
Bertel RĂŒdinger – Short Bio
The Delusional Pharmacist: Bertel RĂŒdinger is a psychiatric survivor and the only clinical pharmacist in Denmark working with people in supported living. He focuses on empowering...
Craig B. Wiener, PhD – Short Bio
ADHD: A Return to Psychology:Â Amid concern that we are proposing the existence of a medical problem with which no biological markers reliably correspond, Craig...
Peter Zook – Short Bio
Peter Zook is pursuing a masterâs in clinical social work at Temple University, where he is assisting investigative work on the impact of community...
Peter Gajdics – Short Bio
Peter Gajdics has been published internationally, including in The Advocate, The Q Review, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, The Printed Blog, and Opium, where he won their...
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...
Jaqueline Kalach – Op-Ed Bio
Jaqueline Kalach is a student at the TEC de Monterrey in Mexico City.
Reflections on a Pathologized Adolescence and a Vision for the Future
My heart envisions a future of grassroots community-based, free, accessible, welcoming, non-judgmental and safe spaces for young people in the middle of the hurricane of adolescence....They will be spaces facilitated by those of us whoâve reclaimed what it means to be human.
Larry M. Leitner, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Larry M. Leitner, PhD, recently retired as a professor of clinical psychology at Miami University. He has co-authored or edited four books and has over...
Tristano Ajmone – Short Bio
Tristano Ajmone is a libertarian psychiatric survivor, much influenced by Thomas Szaszâs writings and friendship. Tristano doesnât believe in the existence of mental illness,...
Sheila Matthews – Short Bio
Sheila Matthews is co-founder of AbleChild. She was the first mother to testify on behalf of the first state Law prohibiting school personnel from...
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...
Malaika Puffer – Short Bio
Seeing Gray:Â Malaika coordinates peer support services in a non-alternative mental health agency. Â She writes about the conflicts, opportunities, and triumphs of offering peer support...
Mary Maddock – Short Bio
Imagine No Psychiatry: Human rights activist and writer campaigns to expose the truth about coercive psychiatry and its tortuous treatments such as electroshock and...
Charles Duncan Wright, MD – Short Bio
Duncan Wright, MD, is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network and lives in Philadelphia.
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...
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...
Alice Maher, MD – Short Bio
Alice Maher, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, founded Changing Our Consciousness, which is dedicated to communication across psychological divides. Her...
Lois Oppenheim, PhD – Short Bio
Lois Oppenheim, PhD, has authored or edited 11 books, most recently Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion and A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis. She has also...
Lauren J. Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA – Short Bio
Psychiatry, State Power, and Capitalism: Lauren is a psychiatric survivor and environmental psychologist. First institutionalized at 15 years old, she works to abolish state-sponsored...
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...
Scott Bryant-Comstock – Op-Ed Bio
Scott Bryant-Comstock has worked in the mental health field for over 30 years in a variety of roles, including therapist, trainer, mental health board...
Nancy Rubenstein Del Giudice – Op-Ed Bio
Nancy is a psychiatric survivor, writer, and coach. She is director of public education and volunteer coordinator for the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights)....
Iden Campbell McCollum, CPRP – Short Bio
Iden Campbell McCollum believes that The Great Turning is happening, and though our generation may not see the full fruits of our labor itâs up...
