Richard Lewis – Long Bio
ADDICTION, BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, AND THE DISEASE MODEL
Richard D. Lewis, MEd, has worked with addictions for the past 19 years in a community mental health clinic...
Vanessa Krasinski – Long Bio
EMBODIED HEALING
Vanessa Krasinski, MSN, RN, has worked for over a decade in various social system settings: a group home for pregnant and parenting foster...
Paul Andrews – Long Bio
Paul W. Andrews is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University in Canada. He has a PhD in...
Douglas Bloch – Long Bio
BEYOND PROZAC: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO TREATING MOOD DISORDERS
Douglas Bloch, MA, is an author, teacher and mental health coach who writes and speaks on...
Stuart Shipko, MD – Long Bio
SHOOTING THE ODDS
Stuart Shipko, MD, has been a practicing physician for 34 years. Initially an emergency physician and family physician, he later became a...
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...
Bob Faw – Long Bio
POSITIVELY HEALING: TRANSFORMING VICIOUS CYCLES INTO VITAL CYCLES.
Bob Faw is the President of the Board of the Directors for Vital Cycles and the Director...
Mary Fry, ND – Long Bio
Mary Fry, ND, is a naturopathic physician and the founder of A Healthy State of Mind, LLC. Dr. Fry has a Bachelor’s of Science...
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...
Jon Jureidini, MD – Long Bio
HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
Jon Jureidini is a child psychiatrist at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, where he works with ill and disabled children and their...
David C. Ross, MEd, LPCC – Long Bio
GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE
David Ross, MEd, LPCC, is the Associate Director for the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County. He has...
Robert Nikkel, MSW – Long Bio
POLICY FOR RECOVERY
Bob Nikkel, MSW, is the Executive Director of the Mad in America Continuing Education Project and is an Associate Professor in the...
Alice Keys, MD – Long Bio
NECESSARY PHOENIX: WORKING TOGETHER TO HELP HEAL THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
After she completed medical school in 1983 at Tulane and Charity Hospital of New...
Tim Desmond – Long Bio
ONE MIND
Tim Desmond, LMFT, is a therapist and consultant in private practice specializing in Buddhist psychology, Nonviolent Communication, and natural treatments for depression and...
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD – Long Bio
CHANGE NOW
Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD, is the owner of WRAP and Recovery Books, and founder of the Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery. She...
Jonathan Dosick – Long Bio
TOWARD PEER-FRIENDLY PUBLIC POLICY
Jonathan Dosick is a peer specialist living and working in Central Massachusetts. For the last decade, he has also been an...
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD – Long Bio
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, where he also has joint...
David Healy, MD – Long Bio
DATA BASED MEDICINE
David Healy, MD, is an internationally known psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of psychiatry in Wales, he studied medicine in...
Elizabeth Stuyt, MD – Long Bio
THINKING HOLISTICALLY
Libby Stuyt, MD, is the Medical Director for the Circle Program at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, Colorado, a 90-day inpatient...
Bruce Levine – Long Bio
COMMONSENSE REBELLION
Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. His latest book is Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists,...
Jonathan Leo, PhD – Long Bio
RETHINKING BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Jonathan Leo, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research examines the biological basis...
Alison Bass – Long Bio
ALISON BASS
Alison Bass is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, which...
Jen Padron, MED, CPS – Long Bio
ON VISIONING A PEER WORKFORCE
Jennifer Maria Padron is a national advocate for mental diversity in community public mental health care, outspoken activist, and a subject...
Aubrey Ellen Shomo – Long Bio
FIXING A BROKEN WORLD
Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder at eight years old, transgendered essayist Aubrey Ellen Shomo (born Justin Michael Shomo) would spend most...
Howard Glasser – Long Bio
AWAKENING CHILDREN TO THEIR GREATNESS
Howard Glasser is the founder of the Children’s Success Foundation and creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach™ and the Inner...
