John Breeding, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
John Breeding, PhD, is a psychologist with a well-established private counseling practice in Austin, Texas. A significant part of his work involves counseling with...
Nev Jones – Op-Ed Bio
Nev Jones is the Co-Director of LERN, a doctoral candidate in community psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, and the director and founder of Chicago Hearing Voices. Prior...
Howard Glasser – Short Bio
Awakening Children to Their Greatness: Creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach and the Inner Wealth Initiative, Howard Glasser writes of ways to help children...
Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...
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...
Akiko Hart – Short Bio
Akiko Hart is the Acting Director of Mental Health Europe, and is also the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. Her interests...
Vera Sharav – Op-Ed Bio
Vera Sharav, a professional law librarian turned public advocate for human rights, is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection...
Larry M. Leitner, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Larry M. Leitner, PhD, recently retired as a professor of clinical psychology at Miami University. He has co-authored or edited four books and has over...
Paula Caplan, PhD – Short Bio
Paula J. Caplan, PhD, is a clinical and research psychologist, activist, Associate at the DuBois Institute, Harvard University, and the author of 11 books,...
Dennis Embry, PhD – Short Bio
Dennis D. Embry, PhD, was responsible for drafting the letter signed by 23 scientists, who collectively represent scores of randomized prevention trials of mental illnesses...
James Davies, PhD – Short Bio
Dr. James Davies is a co-founder of Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry (CEP). He graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a...
Russell Razzaque, MD – Short Bio
Dialogical Psychiatry: In his column, Dr. Russell Razzaque, a UK-based psychiatrist, discusses mindfulness and related practices that help clinicians connect with themselves in order...
George Atwood, PhD – Short Bio
Men on Hooks: George Atwood, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers (retired), where he taught for 41 years. George has devoted his...
Peter Stastny, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Peter Stastny is a New York based psychiatrist, documentary film-maker and a founder of the International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). He...
Jason Renaud – Op-Ed Bio
Jason Renaud is a social justice campaigner living in Oregon. He is a founder of the Mental Health Association of Portland. His film, Alien Boy:...
Clair Bien – Short Bio
Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Claire Bien, M.Ed., is a writer and grant writer at The Connection. She is also a voice hearer and formed the...
Brenda LeFrancois – Short Bio
Dr. LeFrançois, an âindisciplinedâ academic and activist, has been deconstructing psychiatric violence for 20 years. She writes about childrenâs rights, sanism and building coalitions...
Daniel Mackler – Short Bio
Dispatches From the Road: A filmmaker and former psychotherapist tells about making his three documentaries about recovery from "madness," and about meeting with peer...
Sean Blackwell – Op-Ed Bio
Since 2007, Sean Blackwell has been researching and teaching about the spiritual dimension and healing potential of bipolar disorder, through his YouTube channel, bipolarORwakingUP....
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...
Emily Wheeler – Short Bio
Emily Wheeler, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She researches the ethics of mental health care...
Jeanene Harlick – Short Bio
A Disordered World: Jeanene Harlick grapples with a variety of issues which she prefers not to reduce to labels. Jeanene is navigating her way back...
Charles Duncan Wright, MD – Short Bio
Duncan Wright, MD, is a member of the Critical Psychiatry Network and lives in Philadelphia.
Peter Parry, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Peter Parry is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, clinical director of mental health services at the Lady Cilento Childrenâs Hospital in Brisbane and...
Rob Wipond – Short Bio
Rob Wipond is a freelance journalist who writes frequently on the interfaces between psychiatry, civil rights, the justice system, and social change. His articles...
