Greg Benson – Op-Ed Bio
Greg Benson is a Human Rights Advocate for Advocacy Unlimited Inc. in Connecticut. Greg Benson self-identifies as a survivor of the Psychiatric Industry and a human...
Ed Pigott, PhD – Short Bio
The STAR*D Scandal: A psychologist who has spent five years “deconstructing” the NIMH’s large study of antidepressants tells of his findings, discusses his published...
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...
Rossa Forbes – Short Bio
“Rossa Forbes,” a pseudonym, is the mother behind the blog, Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: A Mother and Son Journey. She writes about schizophrenia from the...
Jaqueline Kalach – Op-Ed Bio
Jaqueline Kalach is a student at the TEC de Monterrey in Mexico City.
Peter Parry, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Peter Parry is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, clinical director of mental health services at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and...
Tracey Cannon – Op-Ed Bio
Tracey Cannon is a ‘nearly 50’ year-old artist and social change activist who lives in an amazing home overlooking the beautiful New Zealand rainforest...
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...
Jamin Peck – Short Bio
Beliefs and Perceptions Change Outcomes: Having overcome the limiting beliefs and low expectations of the (well-intentioned, but) coercive “helping professionals,” Jamin seeks to map...
Lia Govers – Short Bio
In the Netherlands, Lia graduated as a first grade teacher, but never went on to teach at school, in part because her Dutch degree...
David W. Oaks – Short Bio
Psychiatric Survivor Activist Tells Mad Movement Stories for Mental Health Justice: After the mental health system abused David with forced psychiatric drugs and labels...
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...
Hugh Middleton – Short Bio
Medical Essentials from England: A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a medical practitioner of...
Elizabeth Stuyt – Short Bio
Thinking Holistically: A psychiatrist and medical director of an innovative, 90-day inpatient treatment program in Colorado for people with chemical dependence and mental illness...
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...
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...
China Mills – Short Bio
Exporting Disorders: Global Markets in Madness: What happens when psychiatry travels to low and middle income countries? Should access to sometimes harmful psychotropic drugs be...
Claudia Gold, MD – Short Bio
The Silenced Child: As a pediatrician bringing perspectives from developmental psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience, Dr. Gold explores the ways in which listening to parents...
David Lawrence – Short Bio
David Lawrence is a voice hearer who tries to understand as much about the human condition as possible. He has worked in the mental...
James FitzGerald – Short Bio
James FitzGerald is a Toronto-born journalist and author. He is currently working on Dreaming Sally, a true story of first love, sudden death and synchronicity...
Cassie Cramer – Short Bio
Cassie is a social worker (MSW, LICSW) and active member of the Boston peer/recovery advocacy community. She works with older adults in the community,...
Maria Bradshaw – Short Bio
DelusionNZ: Maria Bradshaw, who currently lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, writes of social models of suicide prevention, pharmacovigilance, and alternatives to psychiatric interventions for...
Matthew Ladner – Short Bio
Matthew resigned from his full-time position at Soteria-Alaska to pursue his education in microbiology, but remains an active contributor and supporter of the community and...
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...
Mary Jackson – Op-Ed Bio
Mary Strong Jackson lives in Santa Fe, NM. She is a poet who supervises a psycho-social rehabilitation facility for adults with mental illness and/or...