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Biographies of The Blog Authors

Barry Haslam – Long Bio

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BENZODIAZAPINE DRUGS: MY STORY OF SURVIVAL Barry Haslam, former chairman of Oldham Tranx, has campaigned in the UK and Europe over the last 28 years...

Timothy N. – Long Bio

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Timothy N. is a Team Counselor with Windhorse Integrative Mental Health, and he co-facilitates an Unusual Beliefs group and a Hearing Voices group. He recently...

Redmond O’Hanlon – Long Bio

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Redmond O'Hanlon is an academic who has taught university courses in Ireland, the U.S. and Oxford, where he wrote his doctorate. He is at present...

Steve McCrea – Long Bio

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Steve McCrea, MS, is a mental health professional, advocate and author living with his wife, Ginny, in Portland, OR. He has worked for over...

Steven Francesco – Long Bio

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OFF-LABEL Steven Francesco is the President and Founder of Francesco International LLC, a 21-year-old healthcare consultancy with a focus on converting prescription drugs to over-the-counter status. Mr....

William Schultz – Long Bio

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William Schultz is a doctoral student studying clinical psychology at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. His research interests center on non-reductive approaches to psychiatry...

Lois Holzman, PhD – Long Bio

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HOW TO GET PSYCHOLOGY OUT OF OUR LIVES Lois Holzman has spent her adult life challenging the concept of “normal” and exposing the philosophical assumptions...

Tabita Green – Long Bio

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OPTIMIZING CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH Tabita Green is an author, speaker, blogger, and community organizer. In 2011, she left her six-digit corporate job to focus on...

Jeanene Harlick – Long Bio

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A DISORDERED WORLD Jeanene Harlick was a newspaper and freelance journalist for several years, until she was lured into the “eating disorders treatment-industrial-complex,” as she...

George Atwood, PhD – Long Bio

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MEN ON HOOKS George Atwood, PhD, is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University (retired), where he taught for 41 years. George has devoted...

Karen Taylor, RMN – Long Bio

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RECOVERY FOR ALL Karen Taylor, RMN, has 16 years experience in the NHS in England with both older people and adults of working age, including personal...

Al Galves – Long Bio

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For the past twelve years, Al Galves, PhD, has been fighting biopsychiatry and advocating for safe, humane, life-enhancing approaches to helping people who are experiencing emotional...

Norman Hoffman, MD – Long Bio

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Dr. Norman Hoffman is the Director of MedEgo mental health services, and former Director of the McGill Student Mental Health Service.  He has been...

Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, Psychiatric Survivor – Long Bio

PSYCHIATRY, STATE POWER, AND CAPITALISM Lauren Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, is a psychiatric survivor and environmental psychologist. First institutionalized at 15 years old, her often activist...

Claudia Gold, MD – Long Bio

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THE SILENCED CHILD Claudia M. Gold, MD, is a pediatrician and writer with a long-standing interest in addressing children’s mental health needs in a preventive...

David Hidajattoellah – Long Bio

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David Hidajattoellah is an English/math teacher, educational scientist, statistician and philologist in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He works as a math/statistics teacher, peer support teacher and senior...

Margaret Altman – Long Bio

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VOICELESS IN AMERICA Margaret Altman was born, raised and educated in N.Y., receiving her MSW at Adelphi University. She is licensed as a clinical psychotherapist...

Joseph Tarantolo, MD – Long Bio

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PRIMUM NON NOCERE Joseph Tarantolo, MD, is a so-called Board Certified psychiatrist. He is a therapist and helps patients wean them selves off of psychotropic drugs....

Dan Kriegman, PhD – Long Bio

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Daniel Kriegman, PhD, a psychologist and writer, was a founder of the Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Institute of New England and a faculty member at the Massachusetts...

John Hoggett – Long Bio

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John Hoggett is a community activist and performance poet with a wide range of interests. He is a founder of Speak Out Against Psychiatry...

Bridget Mildon – Long Bio

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Bridget Mildon is the president and founder of FND Hope. FND Hope is the first non-profit organization specifically for those diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder...

Asherah Eden – Long Bio

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Asherah Eden (b. Jessica Abelson) is a somatic coach, yogini, and priestess, residing in Oakland CA.  She has twenty years experience studying, practicing and...

Emma Bragdon, PhD – Long Bio

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Emma Bragdon, PhD, is well-known for her two classic books contributing to the field of Spiritual Emergency (1988 & 1990).  She has also published 4...

Janet Foner – Long Bio

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Janet Foner has been the International Liberation Reference Person for Mental Health Liberation for the global Re-evaluation Counseling community since 1992. As such, she writes...

Matthew Ladner – Long Bio

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Matthew Ladner has been an active peer supporter at Soteria-Alaska since January of 2011. Throughout his consumer and peer experiences within the mental health system...