Lyn Legere – Short Bio
Experiential Wisdom: Lyn writes about the power of lived experience to change hearts and minds, and the ups and downs of trying to bring...
Jonathan Raskin – Short Bio
Deconstructing, Reconstructing Abnormality: Dr. Raskin is professor of psychology and counseling at SUNY New Paltz, focusing on social constructions of abnormality in psychology and...
Gretchen LeFever Watson – Short Bio
Live and Learn: Dr. WatsonĀ is a clinical psychologist, President of Safety and Learning Solutions, and adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University. Contact her...
Lauren Spiro – Short Bio
Mental Health Liberation:Ā Lauren facilitates trainings and Dialogues of Discovery, inspired by her recently published memoir,Ā Living for Two:Ā Ā A Daughterās Journey From Grief and Madness to...
Marilyn Wedge – Short Bio
Thinking Outside the Kid: Marilyn Wedge is a family therapist, creator ofĀ Strategic Child-Focused Family Therapy, and author of Pills Are Not For Preschoolers: A...
Rachel Waddingham – Short Bio
Alternatives in the UK: Using her experience of developing innovative projects for people who hear voices (including children, young people and people in prison)...
Ethan Watters – Short Bio
Crazy Like Us: The cultural shaping of mental health symptoms is often ignored by psychiatry. Watters reveals a remarkable diversity in the expression and...
Eugene Epstein – Short Bio
Steps to a Post-Therapeutic Future:Ā With a strong interest in how popular culture and psychiatry/psychotherapy reflexively influence one another, Eugene writes critically about aspects of...
David Webb – Short Bio
Thinking About Suicide: David Webb argues that suicide prevention needs a broad community conversation that challenges the status quo thinking about suicide. At the...
Sera Davidow – Short Bio
Tangible Intangibilities: Sera writes here to share her thoughts on how the language we choose and our apparent need to concretize the inherently complex...
Lucy Johnstone – Short Bio
Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis:Ā Lucy writes about replacing psychiatric diagnosis with a formulation-based approach thatĀ explores personal meaning within relational and social contexts, and she reflects on...
Faith Rhyne – Short Bio
Drawing New Lines: Faith Rhyne is a recovery educator, an advocate, and a storyteller. She enjoys exploringĀ the role that narrative and culture play in...
Jennifer Maurer – Short Bio
Finding Our Way Home:Ā As managing director for the Mother Bear Family Mental Health Network, Jennifer helps guide the development of family-led mental health education...
Jay Joseph – Short Bio
The Gene Illusion: Jay Joseph brings a critical perspectiveĀ to claims in the media and the academic literature that disordered genes underlie psychiatric disorders. His...
Jacks McNamara – Short Bio
Making Meaning out of Madness: A psych survivor and activist, Jacks uses poetry and prose to examine the intersections between trauma, spirituality, identity and...
Matt Samet – Short Bio
The Other Side:Ā Matt Samet, a freelance writer and editor in Colorado, maintains a Facebook pageĀ and has detailed his story in a memoir, Death Grip,...
Kelly Brogan – Short Bio
Third Path Psychiatry:Ā Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM, is a Manhattan-based holistic womenās health psychiatrist, author of the new bookĀ A Mind of Your Own,Ā co-editor of the...
MindFreedom – Short Bio
MindFreedom International leads a nonviolent revolution of freedom, equality, truth and human rights that unites people affected by the mental health system with movements...
Peter Lehmann – Short Bio
Stop The Professional Monologue:Ā Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor for "scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience," writes about coming...
Jacqui Dillon – Short Bio
The Hearing Voices Movement: Jacqui Dillon writes about the rapidly expanding, worldwide Hearing Voices movement which contests the traditional psychiatric relationship of dominant-expert clinician...
Lucinda Jewell – Short Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness: What would be possible if Mental Health Conditions were viewed as gifts that require effective management and...
Second Story Respite – Short Bio
Learning Through Relationships: Staffed by people who have learned from theirĀ lived experience of mood swings, fear, voices, visions, etc., Second Story is an opportunity...
Dan Hazen – Short Bio
A Call To Action: Daniel writes about human rights as a framework to mobilize and organize for liberation and self-determination. He presents strategies for...
Mo Yee Lee – Short Bio
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...
Short Bio – Sharna Olfman
Childhood In America:Ā Sharna Olfman, author, academic and psychologist, critiques America's failure to support children's psychological development through its public policies, parenting practices, educational and...
