Renee M. – Short bio
Renee M. is a 22-year-old UNCG graduate in Special Education. Falsely diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 19, Renee examines what happened to cause...
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...
Rossa Forbes – Short Bio
âRossa Forbes,â a pseudonym, is the mother behind the blog, Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: A Mother and Son Journey. She writes about schizophrenia from the...
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...
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...
Andrew Scull – Short Bio
Madness in Civilization: Andrew Scull is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at UC, San Diego. He is the author of many books and...
Robert Okin, MD – Short Bio
Robert Okin, an internationally known expert on mental health service reform, is a founding member of Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI). He has led the development of community...
Dan Hazen – Short Bio
A Call To Action: Daniel writes about human rights as a framework to mobilize and organize for liberation and self-determination. He presents strategies for...
Dan Kriegman, PhD – Short Bio
The Politics of Diagnosis and Treatment - An Evolutionary Biological View: A practicing clinical psychologist, Dan Kriegman explores the negotiation of conflicting realities that...
Laurie Irelind â Short Bio
Laurie Irelind, an RN specializing in cardiology, was working as a nurse âeducator â âat a large teaching hospital before becoming disabled due to the adverse...
Julie Greene – Short Bio
Julie originally studied music education and composition at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and at Bennington College. In Julie's recent book, not yet...
Noel Hunter – Short Bio
Madness and Meaning in the Human Experience: A clinical psychologist, Noel specializes in a psychosocial approach to emotional distress. Her work focuses on the...
Second Story Respite – Short Bio
Learning Through Relationships: Staffed by people who have learned from their lived experience of mood swings, fear, voices, visions, etc., Second Story is an opportunity...
Johanna Ryan – Short 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...
Deron Drumm – Short Bio
Deron Drumm is the Executive Director of Advocacy Unlimited, the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Rights Protection...
PJ Moynihan – Short Bio
Crossing Over: EMMY-nominee PJ Moynihan has spent years immersed in the world of alternatives to the psychiatric paradigm. He writes of his work as...
Hilary Bryant – Short Bio
Hilary Bryant is the Holistic Health Coordinator and Yoga Instructor for Toivo by Advocacy Unlimited, a mind-body center in Hartford, CT that believes that no...
Daisy Anderson – Short Bio
In The Daisy Project, Daisyâs upcoming book, she shares her insider knowledge as a former mental health nurse and as a former psychiatric patient....
Philip Hickey, PhD – Short Bio
Behaviorism and Mental Health: Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist. He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers,...
Sami Timimi, MD – Short Bio
No More Psychiatric Labels: A child and adolescent psychiatrist, Sami Timimi writes about the Critical Psychiatry movement, an international network of doctors (primarily psychiatrists)...
Tim Carey, PhD – Short Bio
It's All About Control: The articles in this blog focus on the implications of the phenomenon of control for both practice and research. The...
Val Marsh – Op-ed Bio
Valerie L. Marsh, MSW, is Executive Director of the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR). Marsh received both her bachelorâs and masterâs degrees in social...
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...
Karen Taylor – Short Bio
Recovery for All: Karen Taylor, RMN has 16 years experience in the NHS in England. Based in Scotland, Karen is Co-director of Working to Recovery, Ltd alongside Ron...
Dr. Dennis Embry – Op-Ed Bio
Dennis D. Embry is a prominent prevention scientist in the United States and Canada, trained as clinician and developmental and child psychologist. He is...
