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...
Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz – Short Bio
MIA-UMB News Team: Marta E. Pagán-Ortiz is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at UMass Boston. Marta...
Stephen Weatherhead – Short Bio
Neuro-Boom or Bust? Neuropsychology has seen a great rise to prominence over the last 20 years, largely due to the increase in neuroimaging and...
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...
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...
Heather Duke – Short Bio
Heather Duke is a neurofeedback technician at Stone Mountain Center in New Paltz, NY, an outpatient psychotherapy practice that offers neurofeedback among other modalities....
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....
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...
Mary Fry, ND – Short Bio
Integrative Naturopathic Mental Health Care: Mary Fry, a naturopathic physician, discusses her vision of an effective and collaborative integrated mental health care system that includes...
Tristano Ajmone – Short Bio
Tristano Ajmone is a libertarian psychiatric survivor, much influenced by Thomas Szasz’s writings and friendship. Tristano doesn’t believe in the existence of mental illness,...
Joseph Tarantolo, MD – Short Bio
Primum Non Nocere: Joseph Tarantolo, MD is a so-called Board Certified psychiatrist. He is a therapist and helps patients wean them selves off of...
Kelvin Young – Short Bio
Kelvin Young is the manager of Advocacy Unlimited’s intentional living space, “Toivo.” He believes that healing begins from within. After many years of suffering...
Kathy Brandt – Op-Ed Bio
Kathy Brandt is a vocal advocate for mental health and writes a blog about the issues on her website: www.KathyBrandtAuthor.com. That advocacy and her...
Beatrice Birch — OP-ED Bio
Beatrice Birch began her career as a teacher in an inner-city Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner School in Bristol, England in 1975. Deeply inspired by the healing...
Kjetil Mellingen – Short Bio
Seeing the Positive in the Negative: Kjetil Mellingen is a clinical psychologist working in an anxiety and OCD clinic at the University of Oslo,...
Larry Davidson, PhD – Short Bio
Larry Davidson, PhD, is Director of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale, and Senior Clinical...
Alesandra Rain
Alesandra Rain is an author and prescription drug expert for the O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel and ABC, lectures worldwide and is frequently a...
Natalie Tobert, PhD – Short Bio
Natalie Tobert is a medical anthropologist, the author of Spiritual Psychiatries, a visiting lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and seminar facilitator in hospitals...
Lisa D. – Short Bio
Lisa D. is a psychiatric survivor, wife, and mother of five adopted children who owns and operates an off-premise catering company with her husband....
Brenda Vezina – Short Bio
Under Brenda's leadership, the Central MA Recovery Learning Community offers trainings on trauma-informed care, health and wellness, and professionalism in the peer workforce. A licensed...
Wayne Munchel – Short Bio
Trauma-informed Care Meets Pharma-informed Care: Social worker Wayne Munchel will focus on the intersection between trauma informed care/recovery models and biological psychiatry. Early intervention...
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...
Lois Oppenheim, PhD – Short Bio
Lois Oppenheim, PhD, has authored or edited 11 books, most recently Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion and A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis. She has also...
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...
Michael Baker — Short Bio
Michael Baker is a writer from Ontario, Canada. He believes that self-awareness and acceptance are the keys to mental health. Michael enjoys sharing his...
