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...
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...
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...
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...
Peter Kinderman – Short Bio
Peter Kinderman is Professor of Clinical Psychology and an honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Mersey Care NHS Trust. He is Head of the Institute...
Marta E. PagĂĄn-Ortiz – Short Bio
MIA-UMB News Team:Â Marta E. PagĂĄn-Ortiz is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at UMass Boston. Marta...
Edward Opton, JD, PhD – Short Bio
Psych Drug Action Campaign: Edward Opton writes of his work with colleagues at the National Center for Youth Law's PsychDrugs Action Campaign to reduce harmful uses of psychotropic medications,...
Amy Upham – Short Bio
Amy is an Asheville, NC based poet/singer-songwriter and playwright. She has her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Geneseo and has earned her keep for the past...
Luisa Castagnaro – Short Bio
Luisa Castagnaro, MA, is a former teacher of ESL and psychiatric survivor since 1978. Author of Bittersweet Journeys, a poetic anthology, Luisa is working on a...
Alesandra Rain – Op-Ed Bio
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...
Tom Stockmann, MD – Short Bio
Reflections of a UK Psychiatry Trainee: Tom is a psychiatrist in London. He writes about his reflections as he journeys through UK higher psychiatry training, from exploring the causes of his disillusionment with the current mental...
Janet Currie – Short Bio
Janet Currie is co-founder of the Psychiatric Awareness Medication Group, which provides information on the potential harms and effectiveness of psychiatric drugs, and advice on...
Faith Rhyne – Short Bio
Drawing New Lines: Faith Rhyne is a recovery educator, an advocate, and a storyteller. She enjoys exploring the role that narrative and culture play in...
Eleanor Longden
Eleanor Longden is a doctoral researcher who has lectured and published internationally on aspects of voice hearing, trauma, psychosis, and recovery. She is current...
Ken Blatt, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Ken Blatt trained when psychiatry was steeped in a humanistic, philosophic and social/relational tradition. He believes that in the last decades psychiatry has shifted to a...
Kerstin Ogard – Short Bio
Kerstin is a former psychiatric patient who has been involved in the development of mental health services in Finland, and has also been devoting time...
Elinor Taylor – Short Bio
Elinor Taylor will complete her Master's in Counseling in Spring 2015. She has interned as a Mental Health Counselor and is currently working as...
Kjetil Mellingen – Short Bio
Seeing the Positive in the Negative: Kjetil Mellingen is a clinical psychologist working in an anxiety and OCD clinic at the University of Oslo,...
Bertel RĂŒdinger – Short Bio
The Delusional Pharmacist: Bertel RĂŒdinger is a psychiatric survivor and the only clinical pharmacist in Denmark working with people in supported living. He focuses on empowering...
Kit Riley – Short Bio
Kit Riley is an Australian artist and writer. Kit creates pervasive life/art projects about madness, work and language in an attempt to reimagine communicative...
Hilary Bryant – Short Bio
Hilary Bryant is the Holistic Health Coordinator and Yoga Instructor for Toivo by Advocacy Unlimited, a mind-body center in Hartford, CT that believes that no...
Short-Bio — Jonathan Leo
Rethinking Biological Psychiatry: A professor of neuroanatomy, Jonathan Leo writes on the problems with the evidence base used to support the often promoted chemical...
Anoiksis – Op-Ed Bio
Bill George was born in England and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1975. He worked for a Dutch academic publishing house despite his diagnosis...
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...
Johanna Ryan – Short Bio
Johanna Ryan is a workersâ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain...
