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Duncan Double is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia. He is...

Steve Imperato is a thinker and writer diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder.  He is mainly concerned with battling the "disorder" label and exploring...

R. D. Laing in America: Psychoanalyst Michael Guy Thompson worked with Laing for many years and was instrumental in organizing and managing Laing's post-Kingsley Hall...

Off-Label: Steven Francesco is a highly respected and active thought-leader in his industry.  He has testified five times publicly before the U.S. Food and...

Dr. Monasterio is a psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Christchurch School of Medicine. His interests include off-label use of psych meds, metabolic complications,...

The Plant Speaks: Michael Rock has been a group psychotherapist for 25 years. His areas of interests include promoting a national discussion on mental...

Steps to a Post-Therapeutic Future: With a strong interest in how popular culture and psychiatry/psychotherapy reflexively influence one another, Eugene writes critically about aspects of...

Heather Duke is a neurofeedback technician at Stone Mountain Center in New Paltz, NY, an outpatient psychotherapy practice that offers neurofeedback among other modalities....

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...

Fixing A Broken World: A psychiatric survivor activist contemplates the mental health system, stigma, science, law and culture, politics, and the practical realities of fighting...

Mariaelena Bartesaghi teaches Communication at the University Of South Florida. Her research on psychiatry as an institutional discourse of authority has been published in various...

The Myth of Normal: Justin Brown identifies as a person in recovery who voluntarily takes psychotropic medication. He is a member of M-Power.org, an organization of mental...

Martyn Pickersgill, PhD, is Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. He was written widely on the social,...

Data Based Medicine: David writes of his ongoing work as a founder of RxISK.org, whose mission is to capture the data that is missing for...

Greg Benson is a Human Rights Advocate for Advocacy Unlimited Inc. in Connecticut.  Greg Benson self-identifies as a survivor of the Psychiatric Industry and a human...

Matthew is the Operational Director for Stepping Stones Community Outreach, which is based in Ipswich in the UK. Stepping Stones Community Outreach is part...

English Madness: Co-founder and former co-chair of the Critical Psychiatry Network, psychiatrist Philip Thomas writes of madness, meaning and culture.

Positively Healing: Transforming Vicious Cycles into Vital Cycles: Bob Faw writes about the Vital Cycles program, which seeks to empower those who seek joy in...

Utilizing strength and empowerment: Promoting dialogue and knowledge that for a strengths-based, systemic approach to diverse mental health conditions, this blog's focus is on...

Finding Our Way Home: As managing director for the Mother Bear Family Mental Health Network, Jennifer helps guide the development of family-led mental health education...

Iden Campbell McCollum believes that The Great Turning is happening, and though our generation may not see the full fruits of our labor it’s up...

Dialogues with Madness: A therapist and educator specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, Ron Unger explores emerging understandings of psychosis and of efforts to change...

Tales from the Madhouse: Gary is a freelance writer and trainer who opted to leave his Consultant Clinical Psychologist post after 33 years of employment...

Power and Alternatives: Tamasin is a public health doctor in England. She writes about power issues in the mental health system and alternatives to...

Healthy Skepticism: Jon Jureidini, a child psychiatrist in Australia, writes on the quality use of medicines, misleading drug promotion, suicide, medical education and child abuse.