Jacks McNamara – Short Bio
Making Meaning out of Madness: A psych survivor and activist, Jacks uses poetry and prose to examine the intersections between trauma, spirituality, identity and...
Barry Haslam – Short Bio
Benzodiazapine Drugs: My Story of Survival: Barry Haslam, former chairman of Oldham Tranx, writes about his campaign in the UK and Europe over the...
Ronda Richardson â Short Bio
Ronda Richardson is an artist and peer support worker from Canada. She wants to see reforms within smaller communities and rural areas, including more...
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...
Michael Baker â Short Bio
Michael Baker is a writer from Ontario, Canada. He believes that self-Âawareness and acceptance are the keys to mental health. Michael enjoys sharing his...
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,...
Giuseppe Tibaldi, MD – Short Bio
Evidence-Based Hope:Â An Italian psychiatrist, Giuseppe Tibaldi writes about âpersonalâ accounts of recovery, gathered over the last decade. He is launching an international initiative for...
Marilyn Wedge – Short Bio
Thinking Outside the Kid: Marilyn Wedge is a family therapist, creator of Strategic Child-Focused Family Therapy, and author of Pills Are Not For Preschoolers: A...
David Lawrence – Op-ed Bio
David Lawrence is a voice hearer who tries to understand as much about the human condition as possible. He is also a writer/advocate who...
Pat Risser – Short Bio
Pat Risser is an award-winning trainer, facilitator, speaker, author and consultant. He has been a human rights activist and mental health advocate for over...
Lucy Costa – Short Bio
Lucy Costa is involved in numerous initiatives including recent projects exploring the experiences of violence by persons with psychiatric disabilities / consumers / survivors, etc....
Carina Hakansson – Short Bio
Ordinary Life Therapy: Carina Hükansson is founder of the Family Care Foundation and The Extended Therapy Room Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden.  She writes about psychiatry and societal treatment...
Oryx Cohen – Short Bio
Healing Voices: Oryx is a leader in the international consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. Currently, he is the Director of the National Empowerment Centerâs Technical Assistance Center....
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...
Cindi Fisher – Short Bio
M.O.M.S:Â Cindi Fisher is founder of the organization M.O.M.S. She networks moms and others together to support each other in advocating for themselves or their...
Alison Page – Short Bio
Alison Page is a benzodiazepine survivor. She took prescribed benzodiazepines off and on for 16 months and was rapidly tapered off. She ended up...
Erik Monasterio, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Monasterio is a psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the Christchurch School of Medicine. His interests include off-label use of psych meds, metabolic complications,...
Julie Greene – Short Bio
After three decades as a "patient," Julie Greene began to write about human rights abuses in the System, a battle that almost killed her....
Steve Stone – Long/Short Bio
Steve Stone is the Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County. He has worked in the community mental health field...
Jean Davison – Op-Ed
Jean Davison is an author, speaker and mental health worker/trainer in the UK. Her memoir, The Dark Threads (Accent Press), is about her experiences as...
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...
Johanna Ryan – Op-Ed Bio
Johanna Ryan is a workersâ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain disease,...
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...
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...
Robert Whitaker – Short Bio
In the News:Â A journalistâs review of reports in medical journals and the media on psychiatric disorders and treatments.
