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 Centerās Technical Assistance Center....
Yana Jacobs – Short Bio
Transformation Through Peer Respite:Ā 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 2Ā 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:Ā Richard D. Lewis, MEd,Ā has worked with addictions for the past 19 years in New Bedford, MA.Ā 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 toolsĀ and coping strategies to manage the symptoms of depression, anxiety...
Leah Harris – Short Bio
Speaking Truth to Power:Ā 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:Ā 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,Ā 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,Ā 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 itsĀ mental health and drug/alcohol system towards a...
Robert Nikkel – Short Bio
Policy for Recovery:Ā As a former state mental health and addictions commissioner, Bob Nikkel writes about policy and practice changes thatĀ are needed to promote recovery...
Alice Keys – Short Bio
Necessary Phoenix: Can one physician help heal the practice of medicine?Ā 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 RecoveryĀ 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 DosickĀ 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. HeĀ writes on the medical-industrial complex,...
Short Bio – David Healy
Data Based Medicine: David writes of his ongoing work as a founder ofĀ RxISK.org, whose mission is to capture the data that is missing for...
Elizabeth Stuyt – Short Bio
Thinking Holistically: A psychiatrist and medical director of an innovative, 90-day inpatient treatment program in Colorado for people with chemical dependence and mental illness...
Bruce Levine – Short Bio
Commonsense Rebellion:Ā Bruce E. Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist, writes and speaks about how society, culture, politics and psychology intersect. His latest book is Get...
Alison Bass – Short Bio
A former medical and science writer for TheĀ Boston Globe, Alison Bass writes Ā about conflicts of interest in medicine and flaws in the way drugs...
