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,...
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...
Mary Ellen Copeland – Short Bio
Change Now: The founder of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery shares her vision of a world where people are supported in using simple,...
Op-Ed Bio
Catherine Clarke is a former nurse (SRN), midwife (SCM) and chiropodist (MSSCH MBChA.) Following her sonâs violent propulsion into the mental health system, she...
Cathy Levin – Op-Ed Bio
Cathy A. Levin has been an intelligent, adept organizer in the Recovery Movement in Massachusetts. She led the Emergency Room Rights Campaign, a legislative...
Asherah Eden – Short Bio
Asherah Eden (b. Jessica Abelson) is a somatic coach, yogini, and priestess, residing in Oakland CA. She has twenty years experience studying, practicing and...
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...
Madeline Goldstein – Short Bio
Madeline is originally from the Bronx, New York and has done extensive community work throughout her life. She is the editor of two published...
Matt Samet – Short Bio
The Other Side: Matt Samet, a freelance writer and editor in Colorado, maintains a Facebook page and has detailed his story in a memoir, Death Grip,...
David Elkins â Op-Ed Bio
David N. Elkins, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a professor emeritus of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine...
Vanessa Krasinski – Short Bio
Embodied Healing: Vanessa writes about the impact of trauma, and the transformative power of embodied healing practices. Her interests in alternative therapies arise from...
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...
Afiya House â 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....
Jay Joseph – Short Bio
The Gene Illusion: Jay Joseph brings a critical perspective to claims in the media and the academic literature that disordered genes underlie psychiatric disorders. His...
Amy Beausang â Short Bio
The Wrong Profession? After nearly 15 years of working in the pharmaceutical industry, Amy's mission is to help women avoid, reduce, and eliminate their need...
Nesrin Shaheen – Short Bio
Nesrin Shaheen is a director and founding president of the Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis Foundation in Canada. Her daughter was the first positively identified case...
Carrie Foulkes â 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...
Bonnie Schell – Short Bio
On Our Own, Together: Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness, and has been an active member of Psychiatric...
Sarah Knutson
Sarah Knutson is an ex-lawyer, ex-therapist, survivor-activist. She is an organizer at the Wellness & Recovery Human Rights Campaign. You can reach her at...
Malaika Puffer – Short Bio
Seeing Gray:Â Malaika coordinates peer support services in a non-alternative mental health agency. Â She writes about the conflicts, opportunities, and triumphs of offering peer support...
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...
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...
Adam Urato – Short Bio
Adam Urato is Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, and an attending maternal-fetal medicine physician at Tufts Medical Center and...
Redmond O’Hanlon – Short Bio
Redmond O'Hanlon is tidying up the final draft of a book which attempts to bring some insights from the worlds of psychology, philosophy and the arts into...
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.
