Lauren Spiro – Long Bio
MENTAL HEALTH LIBERATION
Lauren Spiro’s vision of social justice and mental health liberation fuels her work, which is focused on inspiring compassionate action and spreading innovative...
Marilyn Wedge – Long Bio
THINKING OUTSIDE THE KID
Marilyn Wedge, PhD, has been a family systems therapist in private practice in California for twenty-three years. She was educated at...
Rachel Waddingham – Long Bio
ALTERNATIVES IN THE UK
Rachel Waddingham is the manager of the London Hearing Voices Project, developing innovative services to support people who hear voices or...
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...
Eugene Epstein – Long Bio
STEPS TO A POST-THERAPEUTIC FUTURE
In the late 1970’s, shortly before he would have been thrown out for raising unwelcome questions about patients’ rights, Eugene...
David Webb – Long Bio
THINKING ABOUT SUICIDE
After surviving “four years of madness”, David Webb looked into the formal study of suicide (Suicidology) and was taken aback to find...
Sera Davidow – Long Bio
TANGIBLE INTANGIBILITIES
Sera Davidow is a mother, an advocate, an activist and a filmmaker. She devotes much of her time to the Western Massachusetts Recovery...
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...
Faith Rhyne – Long Bio
DRAWING NEW LINES
Faith Rhyne is a parent, educator, and a radical mental health activist. She became interested in psychology and psychiatry at age 13,...
Jennifer Maurer – Long Bio
FINDING OUR WAY HOME
Jennifer Maurer is the managing director for Mother Bear Family Mental Health Network, a nonprofit organization and fund of the Foundation for Excellence...
Jay Joseph – Long Bio
THE GENE ILLUSION IN PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Jay Joseph, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1998, he has...
Jacks McNamara – Long Bio
MAKING MEANING OUT OF MADNESS
Jacks Ashley McNamara is a writer, artist, educator, and mental health activist based in Oakland, California. In 2002, they co-founded...
Matt Samet – Long Bio
THE OTHER SIDE
Matt Samet is a book author, magazine writer, and editor based in Colorado. The former editor in chief of Climbing magazine, he...
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...
MindFreedom – Long Bio
MindFreedom International is one of the oldest mental health non-profits in existence (25+ years), and has always existed independent of funding from governments, drug...
Peter Lehmann – Long Bio
STOP THE PROFESSIONAL MONOLOGUE
Peter Lehmann, Honorary Doctor in acknowledgement of "exceptional scientific and humanitarian contribution to the rights of the people with psychiatric experience,"...
Jacqui Dillon – Long Bio
THE HEARING VOICES MOVEMENT
Jacqui Dillon is a respected speaker, writer, trainer and activist, and has lectured and published worldwide on hearing voices, psychosis, dissociation,...
Lucinda Jewell – Long Bio
Mental Health NOW: the Opportunity for Wellness
Imagine a World where Difference is Celebrated and People everywhere relate to one another as Contribution.
Lucinda Jewell, EdM, is...
Second Story Respite – Bio
LEARNING THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS
Second Story Respite is a short-stay, sleeps six, voluntary opportunity to learn to use relationships to move out of old roles and...
Dan Hazen – Long Bio
A CALL TO ACTION: RADICAL SOCIAL CHANGE - FREE THE PEOPLE!
Daniel Hazen is a survivor of the psychiatric and penal systems. Daniel is a...
Mo Yee Lee – Long Bio
Mo Yee Lee, PhD, is Professor of Social Work, College of Social Work, The Ohio State University. My expertise is primarily in the area...
Sharna Olfman – Long Bio
Sharna Olfman, PhD, is the editor/author of the Childhood In America book series for Praeger Publishers, a Professor of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Point...
Oryx Cohen – Long Bio
HEALING VOICES
Oryx Cohen is a leader in the international consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. Currently he is the Director of the National Empowerment Center’s Technical Assistance Center....
Yana Jacobs, MFT – Long Bio
TRANSFORMING THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM THROUGH PEER-STAFFED RESPITE SYSTEMS
Yana Jacobs, MFT, started her work life/ in the mental health field at Soteria House as...
Melissa Bond – Long Bio
KILLER BRAIN CANDY: ONE WOMAN'S ODYSSEY THROUGH BENZODIAZEPINE ADDICTION AND WITHDRAWAL OR HOW CHICKEN LITTLE GOT HER HEAD CRUSHED
Melissa Bond describes the history of...
