Russell Razzaque, MD – Long Bio
DIALOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Genuinely humanistic dialogue should be at the heart of good mental health care. A vast body of research attests to the central role...
Julia Rucklidge – Long Bio
NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Julia J Rucklidge, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New...
Julie Greene – Long Bio
Two years before Julie Greene entered the mental health system, she briefly encountered a religious cult while hitchhiking. She figured out on her own...
Otto Douglas — Long Bio
Otto Douglas is a York University graduate whose psychiatric incarceration opened his eyes to a previously unknown world — a world in which human...
Tina Minkowitz – Long Bio
MAD LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Tina Minkowitz is president and founder of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry. She...
Peter Breggin, MD – Long Bio
THE BREGGIN BLOG: THE CONSCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRY
Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH. Dr. Breggin has been...
Lucy Costa – Long Bio
Lucy Costa was born to Azorean parents who immigrated to Toronto, Canada in the early seventies. She is deputy executive director of a non-profit...
Bonnie Schell – Long Bio
ON OUR OWN, TOGETHER
Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005). In the...
Sascha Altman DuBrul – Long Bio
NAVIGATING THE SPACE BETWEEN BRILLIANCE AND MADNESS
Sascha Altman DuBrul has been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical people’s movements since he was a...
Kelly Brogan – Long Bio
THIRD PATH PSYCHIATRY
Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM, is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the book, A Mind of Your Own and co-editor of the landmark...
Laura Delano – Long Bio
JOURNEYING BACK TO SELF
Laura Delano is a psychiatric liberation activist, writer, and community organizer. She entered the “mental health” system as a thirteen-year old and escaped it...
Lucy Johnstone – Long Bio
BEYOND PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
Lucy Johnstone is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry. She has worked...
Andrew Thibault – Long Bio
Andrew Thibault is an extremely curious, inconvenient parent. He is Co-Founder of Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse (PAPA), a parent movement opposed to over-diagnosis and...
Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...
Janet Currie – Long Bio
Janet Currie is a prescription drug safety advocate who lives and works in Victoria, BC. A researcher by profession, she initially learned the hard...
Leah Harris – Long Bio
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Leah Harris is a mother, storyteller, survivor, and advocate. She has written widely to promote human rights, dignity, healing, and self-determination, and has...
Norman Hoffman, MD – Long Bio
Dr. Norman Hoffman is the Director of MedEgo mental health services, and former Director of the McGill Student Mental Health Service. He has been...
Paris Williams – Long Bio
RETHINKING MADNESS
In the midst of a successful career as a hang gliding instructor and competition pilot (winning a World Champion title and multiple National...
Richard Bentall, MD – Long bio
Psychiatry, Science & Values
Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University and has previously held chairs at Manchester University and Bangor University. He...
Ethan Watters – Long Bio
CRAZY LIKE US
Ethan Watters is a journalist and speaker who has spent the last two decades writing about psychiatry and social psychology. He is...
Michael Guy Thompson – Long Bio
R.D. LAING IN AMERICA
Psychoanalyst and author Michael Guy Thompson worked with R. D. Laing in London for many years, and was instrumental in the...
Jay Watts – Long Bio
RECLAIMING THE UNCONSCIOUS
Jay Watts is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and mental health activist living in London. Dr Watts had held many senior clinical and...
Larry Davidson, PhD – Long Bio
Larry Davidson, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale, and also serves as the Senior Clinical Officer and...
Jack Carney – Long Bio
UP THE RIVER
Jack Carney has been a practicing social worker for over forty years. His recent retirement from FEGS, a large New York social...
Margaret Altman – Long Bio
VOICELESS IN AMERICA
Margaret Altman was born, raised and educated in N.Y., receiving her MSW at Adelphi University. She is licensed as a clinical psychotherapist...
