Amber Gum – Op-ed Bio
Amber Gum is a professor and licensed psychologist. She conducts research to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of behavioral interventions. She has written about...
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...
Matthew Purinton, LCSW – Short Bio
Life Unarmed: Matthew practices individual, couple and family therapy at the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia. He is passionate about working with adults and children...
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...
Max Huber- Op-Ed Bio
Max Huber works as a researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he is head of a research group studying self-managed programs....
Jyl Ion – Short Bio
Jyl Anais Ion is a poet and visual artist who works within the intersections of a variety of media. Originally from the Caribbean, she...
Alec Grant, PhD – Short Bio
Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education: Alec is employed as Reader in Narrative Mental Health at the University of Brighton, UK. His main research and...
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...
Rachel Levy- Op-Ed Bio
Rachel Levy is a clinician and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. She has been a member of Rethinking Psychiatry since 2010.
Akiko Hart – Short Bio
Akiko Hart is the Acting Director of Mental Health Europe, and is also the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. Her interests...
Gary Kohls – Short Bio
Dr. Kohls is a past member of MindFreedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International Society for...
Gary Kohls – Op-Ed Bio
Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician who practiced holistic (non-drug) mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in...
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...
Afiya House – Short Bio
Afiya is a part of the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community. They opened on August 4th, 2012 as the first peer respite in Massachusetts....
Robert Pfaff – Short Bio
Robert Pfaff is an activist and writer with 25 years of experience working on LGBT and other social justice issues. He has detailed his...
Norbert Wetzel – Short bio
Norbert Wetzel has practiced and taught family systems therapy in the US and Germany. He co-founded the Princeton Family Institute, which focuses on relational aspects of...
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...
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....
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...
Malia Fontecchio – Op-ed bio
Malia L.J. Fontecchio, MSW, is a mental health advocate, trainer, speaker, and survivor. She is the program coordinator of the peer-run agency Project Return...
Brian Koehler – Short bio
Brian Koehler’s long-term research interests include the effects of profound stress and social isolation/social defeat on the brain, neuropsychoanalysis, individual psychotherapy, as well as...
Jim Probert – Op-ed Bio
Jim Probert is a psychologist at the University of Florida Counseling and Wellness Center. He talks openly about his own lived experience of emotional...
Elayne Clift – Op-ed bio
Elayne Clift writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River, Vermont. She has written extensively on issues relating to mental health, women, politics,...
Johanna Ryan – Short Bio
Johanna Ryan is a workers’ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain...
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...
