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...
Katie Higgins – Op-Ed Bio
Katie Higgins has been a registered nurse since 1974 and an adolescent psychiatry nurse since 1988. She has worked in child psychiatry at Johns...
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...
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...
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...
William Schultz – Short Bio
William Schultz studies clinical psychology at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. His interests center on non-reductive approaches to psychiatry and psychology. His writing has...
Barry Duncan – Short Bio
Consumer Voice and Choice: Barry is author of 15 books including What's Right With You, highlighting the power of consumer partnership and the evidence for first-line...
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...
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...
Jon Jureidini – Short Bio
Healthy Skepticism: Jon Jureidini, a child psychiatrist in Australia, writes on the quality use of medicines, misleading drug promotion, suicide, medical education and child abuse.
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...
Will Hall – Short Bio
Living With Mental Diversity:Â New visions of what it means to be human from a counselor trained in Open Dialogue at the Institute for Dialogic...
Peter Gajdics – Short Bio
Peter Gajdics has been published internationally, including in The Advocate, The Q Review, New York Tyrant, The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Gay Times, The Printed Blog, and Opium, where he won their...
Stuart Shipko, MD – Short Bio
Shooting The Odds: Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pasadena, CA and author of Surviving Panic Disorder and Xanax Withdrawal. Drawn...
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,...
David Walker, PhD – Short Bio
Speaking in the Borrowed Language: David Walker, PhD, is a Missouri Cherokee psychologist, writer, and musician. He consults with the Yakama Indian Nation, and...
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...
Redmond O’Hanlon – Short Bio
Redmond O'Hanlon is tidying up the final draft of a book which attempts to bring some insights from the worlds of psychology, philosophy and the arts into...
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...
Cassie Cramer – Short Bio
Cassie is a social worker (MSW, LICSW) and active member of the Boston peer/recovery advocacy community. Â She works with older adults in the community,...
Ronald Bassman, PhD – Short Bio
Rights, Inclusion, Dignity - RECOVERY: Ron Bassman is a licensed psychologist who writes about "the recovery path, an individual struggle of becoming." He seeks...
Reid Bertino â Short Bio
Reid Bertino is a 30 year old man with a long history with the mental health system. From start to finish, the mental health...
Jay Watts – Short Bio
Reclaiming the Unconscious:Â Jay writes about how conventional psychiatry treatment can work against and damage the psycheâs attempts to recover from trauma. She focuses on...
Richard Bentall, PhD – Short bio
Psychiatry, Science & Values: Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include childhood trauma, psychosis and public mental health. Books include Doctoring the Mind: Is Our...
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...
