Hugh Middleton, MD – Long Bio
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...