Anna Thomson — Op Ed Bio
Anna Thomson, co-director/producer of the Yoghurt Utopia documentary, is a director of documentaries and drama-docs who has worked for Discovery, Nat Geo, History Channel, BBC, Sky Arts and...
Val Marsh, MSW – Short Bio
Valerie L. Marsh, MSW, is Executive Director of the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery (NCMHR). Marsh received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social...
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....
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 bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social...
Giovanni Fava – Op-Ed Bio
Giovanni Andrea Fava earned his medical degree from the University of Padova in 1977. In Padova he also completed his residency training in psychiatry. After...
Emily Lupsor — Short bio
Emily Lupsor is a social worker in Charlotte, North Carolina where she uses her lived experience to inform her practice. Emily facilitates a mutual...
Steve Imperato — Short Bio
Steve Imperato is a thinker and writer diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder. He is mainly concerned with battling the "disorder" label and exploring...
Mariel Chance — Short Bio
Mariel Chance has a Master's Degree in Sociology and is hoping to be accepted into an MSW program in Boston. She has been an...
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...
Niall McLaren – Short Bio
Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist, author, and critic (in no particular order). He has practiced psychiatry in remote areas and stayed passably sane...
Vlado C. — Short Bio
Vlado C's first exposure to psychiatry came in his thirties when an antidepressant prescription for mild symptoms turned into a full blown crisis and...
Gary Sidley – Short Bio
Tales from the Madhouse: Gary is a freelance writer and trainer who opted to leave his Consultant Clinical Psychologist post after 33 years of employment...
Twilah Hiari — Short Bio
Illness and the Analytical Mind: Twilah Hiari is a recovering patient with a B.A. in Philosophy. She explores how the siloed nature of Western medicine...
Christopher James Dubey – Short Bio
Christopher James Dubey is the author of the novel Assignment Yggdrasil, a sci-fi technothriller with strong antipsychiatry themes, which is currently published by Andrews UK.
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...
Matthew Britts – Short Bio
Matt is a survivor of child abuse and has been working with other survivors for ten years. Matt is currently completing a PhD investigating psychological...
Serafina B. — Short Bio
Serafina B. is a 36-year-old artist born in Nicuaragua who has won art prizes and has pieces in museum collections. She has been diagnosed with...
Deena Hoblit — Short Bio
After over thirty years in the mental health system and almost five institutionalized, Deena Hoblit continues to search for closure through the study of...
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...
Brenda LeFrancois – Short Bio
Dr. LeFrançois, an ‘indisciplined’ academic and activist, has been deconstructing psychiatric violence for 20 years. She writes about children’s rights, sanism and building coalitions...
Opeyemi Parham — Short Bio
Opeyemi Parham practiced family medicine for just over twenty years as Dr. Camilla Parham. Eleven years "post-doctoring," she believes that those initials behind her name signify...
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 — as well as by the...
Dorrit Cato Christensen – Op-Ed Bio
Dorrit Cato Christensen is an author, lecturer and chairman of the Danish association Dead in Psychiatric Care. She devoted her life to helping people...
Carrie Foulkes — Short Bio
Carrie Foulkes is an interdisciplinary poet and artist based in London, England. Her practice-based research explores themes of interconnectivity, non-linearity and chance through various...
Mariaelena Bartesaghi – Op-ed Bio
Mariaelena Bartesaghi teaches Communication at the University Of South Florida. Her research on psychiatry as an institutional discourse of authority has been published in various...
