Paul Andrews – Short Bio
Paul W. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. His work on the...
Norman Hoffman, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Norman Hoffman has worked extensively on psychiatry/psychotherapy liaison issues. His major areas of interest have been the treatment of Personality Disorders, and the...
Katie Higgins – Op-Ed Bio
Katie Higgins has been a registered nurse since 1974 and an adolescent psychiatry nurse since 1988. She has worked in child psychiatry at Johns...
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...
Susan Rogers – Short Bio
…Changing the Things I Can’t Accept: Active in the movement for social justice since 1984, Susan Rogers is inspired by Angela Davis’s response to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mary Olson, PhD – Short Bio
Anatomy of Dialogue: Mary Olson, PhD is director of the Institute for Dialogic Practice and a lecturer and trainer in the fields of family therapy...
Richard Lewis – Short Bio
Addiction, Biological Psychiatry and the Disease Model: Richard D. Lewis, MEd, has worked with addictions for the past 19 years in New Bedford, MA. Richard discusses the...
David Walker, PhD – Short Bio
Speaking in the Borrowed Language: David Walker, PhD, is a Missouri Cherokee psychologist, writer, and musician. He consults with the Yakama Indian Nation, and...
Jan Haaken, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Jan Haaken is professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and documentary filmmaker. Haaken has published extensively...
Dick Russell – Short Bio
Dick Russell is the author of twelve books, including My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism, as well as The Life and...
Shannon Peters – Short Bio
MIA-UMB News Team: Shannon Peters is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and has a master’s degree in mental health counseling....
Will Fudeman, LAc, LCSW – Op-Ed Bio
Will Fudeman is a licensed acupuncturist, social worker, and Qi Gong instructor. His book Before Pharmaceuticals: Emotional Healing with Chinese Medicine (Bryce Cullen) tells true stories of...
Olga Runciman – Short Bio
Denmark: Voices From the Inside Out: Olga Runciman has worked as a psychiatric nurse and been a patient of the self-same system. She was told...
Paris Williams – Short Bio
Rethinking Madness: With the rare perspective of someone who has experienced extreme states from both sides — as a psychologist/researcher and as someone with lived...
Danielle Egan – Short Bio
Danielle Egan is a Vancouver based freelance journalist. Her articles about psychiatric neurosurgeries and bio-medical technologies have been published in many titles, including New Scientist, Vancouver...
Julie Wood – Short Bio
Julie is a CPA, CA and MBA who changed careers when she lost her son, John David, to the effects of psychiatric drugs in...
Alison Bass – Short Bio
A former medical and science writer for The Boston Globe, Alison Bass writes about conflicts of interest in medicine and flaws in the way drugs...
Dan Hazen – Short Bio
A Call To Action: Daniel writes about human rights as a framework to mobilize and organize for liberation and self-determination. He presents strategies for...
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...
Timothy Kelly – Short Bio
The Uncertain Real: Timothy Kelly is a doctoral student with interests in psychosocial approaches to, and the sociocultural contexts of, states often under the...
Niall McClaren – Op-Ed Bio
Jock McLaren is an Australian psychiatrist who worked 25yrs in the remote north of the country. He occupies himself delving into the philosophical basis...
