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Biographies of The Blog Authors

Hugh Middleton, MD – Long Bio

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MEDICAL ESSENTIALS FROM ENGLAND Hugh Middleton, MD, MRCP, FRCPsych, is Associate Professor at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham and NHS...

Daniel Fisher, MD – Long Bio

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RECOVERY THROUGH VOICE AND DIALOGUE In an effort to uncover the biochemical basis of mental illness, Daniel Fisher obtained a PhD and carried out neurochemical research...

Philip Thomas, MD – Long Bio

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ENGLISH MADNESS After working as a full-time consultant psychiatrist in the NHS for over twenty years, Philip Thomas, MD, left clinical practice in 2004 to write. He...

Olga Runciman – Long Bio

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DENMARK: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT Olga Runciman is an international trainer and speaker as well as writer, campaigner and artist. She sees the hearing...

Carina Håkansson – Long Bio

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ORDINARY LIFE THERAPY Carina Håkansson is a psychotherapist and manager at Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, which was founded in 1987.  Many of the...

Maria Bradshaw – Long Bio

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DelusionNZ Maria Bradshaw lost her only child to SSRI induced suicide in 2008. Co-founder and CEO of CASPER (Community Action on Suicide Prevention Education &...

Nadia Mahjoub – Long Bio

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MAD IN BELGIUM Nadia Mahjoub was born in 1972 and lives in Belgium. She graduated in 1994 from Vrije Universiteit Brussel where she studied English...

Ron Unger – Long Bio

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DIALOGUES WITH MADNESS Ron Unger, LCSW, is a therapist and educator specializing in cognitive therapy for psychosis, and in understanding and working with the relationships between trauma...

Sami Timimi, MD – Long Bio

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NO MORE PSYCHIATRIC LABELS: VIEWS OF A CRITICAL PSYCHIATRIST Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent...

Jill Littrell, PhD – Long Bio

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LIFE STYLE CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN Jill Littrell, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Georgia State University in the School of Social Work.  Her PhD...

Elliot Goldberg, LCSW – Long Bio

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GET OFF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS A psychotherapist for over 30 years in the Pacific Northwest, Elliot Goldberg stumbled into the professional rehab world in 2009. He...

Jack Carney – Long Bio

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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...

Carolyn Crowder, PhD – Long Bio

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DISCIPLINE, NOT DRUGS Carolyn Crowder, PhD, attended the University of Arizona and finished her doctorate in 1980. She is a retired psychologist whose primary interest...

Corinna West – Long Bio

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WELLNESS WORDWORKS Corinna West is a motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and community organizer. She founded Wellness Wordworks in 2008 to show how the recovery community can...

Will Hall – Long Bio

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LIVING WITH MENTAL DIVERSITY Will Hall, MA, DiplPW, is a counselor, consultant, and community development worker in private practice with families, individuals, couples and groups. A survivor of...

Lisbeth Riis Cooper

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BRINGING HOPE HOME Lisbeth Riis Cooper is the founder and chairwoman of the Mother Bear Community Action Network, a national network of families dedicated to creating a new mental...

Michael Cornwall, PhD – Long Bio

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AN ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF MADNESS Michael Cornwall is a Jungian/Laingian psychotherapist who went through his own intense experience of transformative madness without medication...

Sascha Altman DuBrul – Long Bio

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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...

Gina Nikkel, PhD – Long Bio

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EXPECT RECOVERY Gina Nikkel is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at...

Daniel Mackler – Long Bio

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DISPATCHES FROM THE ROAD Daniel Mackler is the director of the 2008 documentary Take These Broken Wings, on recovery from schizophrenia without medication, and the...

Keris Myrick – Long Bio

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PUSHING THE MAD ENVELOPE Keris Jän Myrick is the president and CEO of Project Return Peer Support Network, a peer run organization in Los Angeles...

Sandra Steingard, MD – Long Bio

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ANATOMY OF A PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE Sandra Steingard, MD, is the Medical Director of HowardCenter and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont...

Jim Gottstein – Long Bio

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LAW, ALTERNATIVES AND CHANGE James B. (Jim) Gottstein has been practicing law in Alaska since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1978.  Informed by his self-described...

Johnathan Leo / Jeffrey Lacasse – Long Bio

RETHINKING THE BROKEN BRAIN Jonathan Leo, PhD, is a Professor of Neuroanatomy at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. His research examines the biological...

Robert Whitaker – Long Bio

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IN THE NEWS Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and...