Alice Maher, MD – Short Bio
Alice Maher, MD, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, founded Changing Our Consciousness, which is dedicated to communication across psychological divides. Her...
Healing Youth with Nature and Connection: An Interview with Peter Mayfield
An interview with Peter Mayfield, founder and Executive Director of the Gateway Mountain Center. Peter talks of his journey from mountaineering to his role as an educator and mentor, and how enabling children and adolescents to connect with nature has such a profound effect on their health and wellbeing.
Nancy Rubenstein Del Giudice – Op-Ed Bio
Nancy is a psychiatric survivor, writer, and coach. She is director of public education and volunteer coordinator for the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights)....
Parenting Changed My Perspective on âADHDâ
My experience of raising a son who was bright and creative but didnât fit the mold helped me to approach my restless, impulsive students more compassionately and creatively.
Robert Pfaff â Short Bio
Robert Pfaff is an activist and writer with 25 years of experience working on LGBT and other social justice issues. He has detailed his...
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
Founder and Executive Director Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu talks about the organization's work to support struggling students and end discrimination against them.
Suzanne Beachy – Short Bio
Suzanne Beachy is a mother, musician, writer, and activist, who advocates for more recovery-oriented approaches to treating the kind of mental/emotional distress which gets...
Peter Lehmann – Short Bio
Stop The Professional Monologue:Â Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor for "scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience," writes about coming...
Michael Rock – Short Bio
The Plant Speaks: Michael Rock has been a group psychotherapist for 25 years. His areas of interests include promoting a national discussion on mental...
Engaging Voices, Part 1: Validating The Arrival of My Wifeâs First âAlters’
Sam Ruck shares his third excerpt from his book Healing Companions, which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her âalters.âÂ
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...
Reality According to Whom? Listening to My Wifeâand The Problems with âPsychosisâ
Sam Ruck shares an excerpt from his book "Healing Companions," which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her âalters.âÂ
Op-Ed Bio
Catherine Clarke is a former nurse (SRN), midwife (SCM) and chiropodist (MSSCH MBChA.) Following her sonâs violent propulsion into the mental health system, she...
Ira Steinman, MD
Ira Steinman is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco, focusing on the Intensive Psychotherapy of the severely disturbed. Early training included working...
One Familyâs Encounter with Modern Psychiatry and a Call for Social Change
Asking the psychiatrist to discontinue medication was one of our bravest moments. It went against everything doctors had told us over the past twelve monthsâagainst Rebeckaâs regular psychiatristâs vehement opposition (âYou can come back when it doesnât work.â). It went against what we heard repeatedly in the media and in pop culture. It went against what we saw in the advertisements during the evening news. And it was the turning point in Rebeckaâs journey toward optimal mental health.
Sean Donovan – Short Bio
Recounting Chimera: Sean writes about issues of civil rights, human rights, personal experiences and the madness created when founding myths of liberty, justice and...
For Native People, the Past is Present: David Edward Walker on Oppressive Mental Health...
David Edward Walker is the author of Coyoteâs Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America, which was published in February...
Study Links Emotional Intelligence and School Achievement
A new meta-analysis highlights a positive relationship between student emotional intelligence and academic achievement.
Kermit Cole – Short Bio
Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of MIA, works in Santa Fe, NM as a couple & family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue â as well as by the...
Elizabeth Hill
Elizabeth Hill has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She is currently revising a novel based on her journey through madness and the...
Study Finds No Increased Risks for Pregnant Women Who Discontinue SSRIs/SNRIs
A new article published in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology finds pregnant women that chose to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin...
The Diseasing of Defiance
Is every defiant child a freedom fighter? Of course not. Disrupting your fourth grade class is not the same as embarking on the underground railway. But is oppositional defiant disorder a label meant to subjugate and to serve the needs of the authorities? Yes, absolutely.
Amy Biancolli – Short Bio
Figuring Shit Out: Amy Biancolli's third book, Figuring Shit Out: Love, Laughter, Suicide, and Survival (2014, Behler Publications), is a memoir of the year following...
Letter to My Child’s Psychiatrist
Dear Doctor, I wonder if you remember my son... you only spent about ten minutes with him, exactly four days after his first suicide attempt. I asked you if his medication, Zoloft, had anything to do with what was happening. You looked at me and said, "There's no way of knowing; there are too many factors involved."
James FitzGerald – Short Bio
James FitzGerald is a Toronto-born journalist and author. He is currently working on Dreaming Sally, a true story of first love, sudden death and synchronicity...
