Amber Gum – Long Bio
Amber Gum is a professor and licensed psychologist. She conducts research to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of behavioral interventions. She has written about...
Alison Page – Long Bio
Alison Page is a benzodiazepine survivor. She took prescribed benzodiazepines off and on for 16 months and was rapidly tapered off. She ended up...
Matthew Purinton, LCSW – Long bio
Life Unarmed
Mr. Purinton practices individual, couple and family therapy as a licensed clinical social worker at the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia. His experience and...
Richard Bentall, MD – Long bio
Psychiatry, Science & Values
Richard Bentall is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University and has previously held chairs at Manchester University and Bangor University. He...
Max Huber- Long Bio
Max Huber works as a researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he is head of a research group studying self-managed programs....
Sarah Knutson- Long Bio
Sarah Knutson is an ex-lawyer, ex-therapist, survivor-activist. She is an organizer at the Wellness & Recovery Human Rights Campaign. You can reach her at...
Jyl Anais – Long Bio
Jyl Anais is a poet and visual artist who works at the intersections of a variety of media. Soft Out Spoken, her first collection of...
Alec Grant, PhD- Long Bio
TROUBLING MENTAL HEALTH NURSE EDUCATION
Alec Grant, PhD, trained as a mental health nurse in the mid-1970s, and over the next two decades gained a...
Liz Mullinar – Long Bio
The Trauma Connection: Founder and Volunteer CEO of the Heal for Life Foundation (Mayumarri Centres), Liz Mullinar is a survivor of incest, sexual abuse...
Akiko Hart – Long Bio
Akiko Hart is the Acting Director of Mental Health Europe, and is also the Hearing Voices Project Manager at Mind in Camden. Her interests...
Gary Kohls – Long Bio
Dr. Kohls is a retired family physician who practiced holistic (non-drug) mental health care. His patients came to see him asking for help in...
David Lawrence – Long Bio
David Lawrence is a voice hearer who tries to understand as much about the human condition as possible. He is also a writer/advocate who...
Robert Pfaff – Long Bio
Robert Pfaff is an activist and writer with 25 years of experience working on LGBT and other social justice issues. He has earned both...
Norbert Wetzel – Long Bio
Norbert Wetzel is an academic teacher and licensed psychologist with extensive experience teaching and practicing systemic Couples and Family Therapy in various academic and...
Ally Nugent – Long Bio
INJURED BY PSYCHIATRY
Ally Nugent is an activist and a psychiatric survivor. She writes and speaks about benzodiazepine iatrogenesis, as well as psychiatric survivor intersectionality. She...
Heather Duke – Long Bio
Heather Duke is a neurofeedback technician at Stone Mountain Center in New Paltz, NY, an outpatient psychotherapy practice that offers neurofeedback among other modalities....
Renee M. – Long Bio
Renee M. is a 22-year-old UNCG graduate in Special Education. Falsely diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 19, Renee examines what happened to cause...
Malia Fontecchio – Long Bio
Malia L.J. Fontecchio, MSW, is a mental health advocate, trainer, speaker, and survivor. She is the program coordinator of the peer-run agency Project Return...
Brian Koehler – Long Bio
Brian Koehler is an adjunct associate professor in the departments of Social Work and adjunct faculty and supervisor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy...
Jim Probert – Long Bio
Jim Probert is a psychologist at the University of Florida, and an individual with lived experience of recovery from a diagnoses of severe mental illness including...
Elayne Clift – Long Bio
Elayne Clift writes about women, health, politics and social issues from Saxtons River, Vermont. She has written extensively on issues relating to mental health, women, politics,...
Johanna Ryan – Long Bio
Johanna Ryan is a workers’ comp paralegal and a union and healthcare activist in Chicago. She may or may not have a biological brain disease,...
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD – Long Bio
Jasenn Zaejian, PhD, worked as a clinical psychologist with severely disturbed folks for more than 40 years. Dr. Zaejian retired to devote his energies to...
Pat Risser – Long Bio
Pat Risser is an award-winning trainer, facilitator, speaker, author and consultant. He has been a human rights activist and mental health advocate for over...
Mark Radcliffe – Long Bio
Mark A. Radcliffe is the author of two novels; Gabriel's Angel (2010) and Stranger Than Kindness (2013), he is a long term columnist in...
