Pat Bracken, MD – Short Bio
Pat is Clinical Director of the Mental Health Service in West Cork, Ireland, and a founder of the UK Critical Psychiatry Network. He tries to...
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...
John Read, PhD – Short Bio
John Read is on the Executive Committee of ISPS, and editor of its scientific journal "Psychosis." In 2015, he became Professor of Clinical Psychology at Swinburne University...
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...
Joanna Moncrieff, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University College London. She is one of the founders and co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network. She has written...
Rachel Levy- Op-Ed Bio
Rachel Levy is a clinician and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has been a member of Rethinking Psychiatry since 2010.
Anoiksis – Op-Ed Bio
Bill George was born in England and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1975. He worked for a Dutch academic publishing house despite his diagnosis...
Max Huber- Op-Ed Bio
Max Huber works as a researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he is head of a research group studying self-managed programs....
Peter Gøtzsche – Op-Ed Bio
Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche, Director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, graduated as a master of science in biology and chemistry in 1974 and as a physician...
Chaya Grossberg – Short Bio
All of Us or None of Us: Chaya questions the idea that some of us are "mentally ill" and others of us are not. She...
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...
Justin Brown – Short Bio
The Myth of Normal: Justin Brown identifies as a person in recovery who voluntarily takes psychotropic medication. He is a member of M-Power.org, an organization of mental...
Shannon Peters – Short Bio
MIA-UMB News Team: Shannon Peters is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and has a master’s degree in mental health counseling....
Kirk Schneider – Op-Ed Bio
Kirk J. Schneider, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is the past editor of the Journal...
Ron Coleman – Short Bio
Ron is a Director of Working to Recovery, Ltd., an innovative mental health training , consultancy and publishing business. He is also a director...
Jack Carney – Short Bio
Up the River: A social worker, Jack Carney writes on the contradictions and hypocrisies of the public mental health system, and promotes and applauds acts...
Andrew Thibault – Short Bio
Andrew Thibault is an extremely curious, inconvenient parent. He is Co-Founder of Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse (PAPA), a parent movement opposed to over-diagnosis and...
Peter Lehmann – Short Bio
Stop The Professional Monologue: Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor for "scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience," writes about coming...
Peter Simons – Short Bio
MIA-UMB News Team: Peter Simons comes from a background in the humanities where he studied English, philosophy, and art. Now working on his PhD in...
Ed Pigott, PhD – Short Bio
The STAR*D Scandal: A psychologist who has spent five years “deconstructing” the NIMH’s large study of antidepressants tells of his findings, discusses his published...
Jay Joseph – Short Bio
The Gene Illusion: Jay Joseph brings a critical perspective to claims in the media and the academic literature that disordered genes underlie psychiatric disorders. His...
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...
David Guttman — Short Bio
David Guttman is a father, an entrepreneur and a crossfitter. He is also a voracious reader, a world traveler and president of First Stop...
Claire Weber
Claire Weber has many perspectives about mental wellness and has been willing to wrestle with all of them to find her own personal truth. ...
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...
