Second Story Respite – Short Bio
Learning Through Relationships: Staffed by people who have learned from their 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:Â Sharna Olfman, author, academic and psychologist, critiques America's failure to support children's psychological development through its public policies, parenting practices, educational and...
Oryx Cohen – Short Bio
Healing Voices: Oryx is a leader in the international consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. Currently, he is the Director of the National Empowerment Center’s Technical Assistance Center....
Yana Jacobs – Short Bio
Transformation Through Peer Respite:Â Yana is the Senior Program Officer with the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. She brings 30-plus years of experience...
Melissa Bond – Short Bio
Killer Brain Candy: After 2Â years of Ativan for pregnancy-related insomnia, and the knowledge that the drug was slowly disassembling her brain and body, Melissa...
Richard Lewis – Short Bio
Addiction, Biological Psychiatry and the Disease Model: Richard D. Lewis, MEd, has worked with addictions for the past 19 years in New Bedford, MA. Richard discusses the...
Paul Andrews – Short Bio
Paul W. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. His work on the...
Vanessa Krasinski – Short Bio
Embodied Healing: Vanessa writes about the impact of trauma, and the transformative power of embodied healing practices. Her interests in alternative therapies arise from...
Doug Bloch – Short Bio
Beyond Prozac: Author, teacher, and mental health coach Douglas Bloch writes on using holistic tools and coping strategies to manage the symptoms of depression, anxiety...
Leah Harris – Short Bio
Speaking Truth to Power:Â Leah writes about holistic, community-based approaches to support those experiencing emotional distress and extreme states; storytelling as a vehicle for personal...
Ted Chabasinski – Short Bio
Still Crazy After All These Years: Ted Chabasinski, now a patients' rights lawyer, was taken from his parents when he was six years old,...
Bob Faw – Short Bio
Positively Healing: Transforming Vicious Cycles into Vital Cycles:Â Bob Faw writes about the Vital Cycles program, which seeks to empower those who seek joy in...
Mary Fry, ND – Short Bio
Integrative Naturopathic Mental Health Care: Mary Fry, a naturopathic physician, discusses her vision of an effective and collaborative integrated mental health care system that includes...
Vivek Datta – Short Bio
The Psychopathology of American Life: A British physician explores how the concept of mental disorder has vastly expanded over the past century, reporting from...
Tina Minkowitz – Short Bio
Mad Law and Human Rights: An attorney and psychiatric survivor, Tina Minkowitz writes on the new perspectives in human rights law that emerged in...
Jon Jureidini – Short Bio
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.
David Ross – Short Bio
Getting From Here to There: David Ross writes about the efforts in Ashland, County Ohio to move its mental health and drug/alcohol system towards a...
Robert Nikkel – Short Bio
Policy for Recovery: As a former state mental health and addictions commissioner, Bob Nikkel writes about policy and practice changes that are needed to promote recovery...
Alice Keys – Short Bio
Necessary Phoenix: Can one physician help heal the practice of medicine? After two and a half decades of work as a psychiatrist in private practice,...
Tim Desmond – Short Bio
One Mind: Therapist and Buddhist scholar, Tim Desmond explores how we think about the nature of madness and wellness, from the medical model to...
Mary Ellen Copeland – Short Bio
Change Now: The founder of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery shares her vision of a world where people are supported in using simple,...
Jonathan Dosick – Short Bio
Toward Peer-Friendly Public Policy: A peer activist, Jonathan Dosick writes about obstacles his community faces due to continuing refusal by governments, industry and the public...
Carl Elliott – Short Bio
Enemy of the People: Carl Elliott is a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He writes on the medical-industrial complex,...
