Matthew Morris – Op-Ed Bio
Matthew is the Operational Director for Stepping Stones Community Outreach, which is based in Ipswich in the UK. Stepping Stones Community Outreach is part...
Liz Mullinar- Short Bio
Founder and Volunteer CEO of Heal for Life Foundation (Mayumarri Centres), Liz Mullinar is a survivor of incest, sexual abuse and cult abuse. Liz...
Julia Rucklidge – Short Bio
Nutrition and Mental Health: Julia's interest in nutrition and mental illness grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with psychiatric illness despite...
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...
Kathy Brandt – Op-Ed Bio
Kathy Brandt is a vocal advocate for mental health and writes a blog about the issues on her website: www.KathyBrandtAuthor.com. That advocacy and her...
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)...
Polly Trope – Op-Ed Bio
Once a star-student of literature, unexpected twists of fate dragged Polly Trope (not her real name) through hell and back. She came out a...
Cyndi Roberts – Short Bio
Yoga, meditation and nutrition are the practices Cyndi used to save her life after a 12-year battle with severe depression, anxiety and a misdiagnosis of bipolar...
Mark Foster, DO – Short Bio
Letters from the Front Lines: A family physician, after having read Anatomy of an Epidemic, writes of his struggles to prescribe psychiatric medications in...
Kelvin Young – Short Bio
Kelvin Young is the manager of Advocacy Unlimited’s intentional living space, “Toivo.” He believes that healing begins from within. After many years of suffering...
Corinna West – Short Bio
Wellness Wordworks: Corinna West writes about the business she founded, which coordinates people suffering from emotional distress to provide instant peer support for one...
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,...
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...
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...
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Get Off Prescription Drugs: Psychotherapist Elliot Goldberg writes about his experiences running an outpatient rehab program that helps people get off prescription drugs, and...
Peter Zook – Short Bio
Peter Zook is pursuing a master’s in clinical social work at Temple University, where he is assisting investigative work on the impact of community...
Keris Myrick – Short Bio
Pushing the Mad Envelope: As CEO of a peer-run organization, mental health consumer, advocate and visionary change agent, Keris writes about pressing issues facing...
J. Doe — Op-Ed bio
The author has a BS in Biology/Health Science and went on to complete a professional post-graduate master's program and certification. While starting their career,...
Jill Littrell – Short Bio
Life Style Can Change the Brain: A clinical psychologist, Jill Littrell writes about research studies of psychiatric medications, and interventions to bolster natural resilience through...
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...
Nadia Mahjoub – Short Bio
Mad in Belgium: Nadia is convinced there are better ways to help people in crisis than what is provided generally in psychiatric care in...
Gina Nikkel – Short Bio
Expect Recovery: The executive director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care tells of how the foundation is partnering with private philanthropy to...
Robert Whitaker – Short Bio
In the News: A journalist’s review of reports in medical journals and the media on psychiatric disorders and treatments.
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...
Helene Sandstrom – Short Bio
Helene Sandstrom is a freelance translator, science journalist and former co-editor of The Swedish Journal of Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine, specializing in health,...
