Suman Fernando – Long Bio
Suman Fernando was a consultant psychiatrist (now retired) in the British National Health Service for over twenty years until the mid-1990s. Since then he has...
Steve Stone – Long/Short Bio
Steve Stone is the Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County. He has worked in the community mental health field...
Brett Collins – Long Bio
Brett Collins has represented detainees, and specifically the interests of prisoners and mental health patients, in Australia and internationally for over thirty years. He...
Barry Duncan – Long Bio
CONSUMER VOICE AND CHOICE
Barry L. Duncan, PsyD, is director of the Heart and Soul of Change Project and a therapist, trainer, and researcher with over...
Michael Gilbert, PsyD – Long Bio
SCHOOL MATTERS
Michael Gilbert, PsyD, has over 23 years of experience working with children and families, including in foster care, group home, and hospital settings....
PJ Moynihan – Long Bio
CROSSING OVER
EMMY-nominated Producer PJ Moynihan graduated from Columbia University in 2002 and founded Digital Eyes Film in 2003. His first documentary "Fight Town: Sport...
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...
Jamin Peck – Long Bio
Jamin Peck is a multifaceted individual who’s creative expressions range from art, music, communication, spirituality and more. Like so many others, he has been told...
Michael Rock – Long Bio
THE PLANT SPEAKS
Michael Rock has been a group psychotherapist for 25 years. Using elements of CBT, DBT, and Positive psychology, he developed a model...
Monica Cassani – Long Bio
BEYOND MEDS
Monica Cassani has seen the system from both sides - as a social worker and as a person whose life was severely ruptured...
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...
Chaya Grossberg – Long Bio
ALL OF US OR NONE OF US
Chaya Grossberg is a writer, teacher, coach and group facilitator living in San Francisco. She teaches classes and...
Paul Baker – Long Bio
Paul Baker is a community development worker. He is one of the founding members of the Hearing Voices Network in England and INTERVOICE, the...
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...
Dorothy Dundas – Long Bio
FINDING RESILIENCE AND HOPE IN THE FACE OF DESPAIR
While institutionalized for three years as an adolescent in the 1960s, Dorothy Dundas was labeled a...
Sean Donovan – Long Bio
RECOUNTING CHIMERA
Sean Donovan, after surviving more than a decade of psychiatric abuse, less-than-voluntary objectification through clinical trials and emotional turmoil, exhibits little patience for...
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...
Bonnie Kaplan – Long Bio
NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH
Bonnie J. Kaplan, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine (Department of Paediatrics, Department of Community Health Sciences) at the University of...
Tamasin Knight – Long Bio
POWER AND ALTERNATIVES
Tamasin Knight is a public health doctor from England who is interested in power issues in the mental health system and alternatives...
Rufus May – Long Bio
Rufus May has worked for 19 Years as a clinical psychologist in the NHS in England. He is a trustee of the Bradford Soteria...
Deron Drumm – Long Bio
Deron Drumm is the Co-Executive Director of Advocacy Unlimited in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He self-identifies as having experienced extreme, altered and addictive states. He writes and...
Adam Urato – Long Bio
Adam Urato is Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. He cares for pregnant women daily as an attending maternal-fetal medicine...
Lyn Legere – Long Bio
EXPERIENTIAL WISDOM
Lyn Legere writes about the power of lived experience to change hearts and minds, and the ups and downs of trying to bring this...
Jonathan Raskin – Long Bio
DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING ABNORMALITY
Jonathan D. Raskin is professor of psychology and counseling at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His scholarship...
Gretchen LeFever Watson – Long Bio
LIVE AND LEARN
Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist whose research and intervention projects have received international scholarly and media attention, including appearances...
