Susan Musante, LPCC – Long Bio
Susan Musante, MS, LPCC, was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska, a model proven to be a highly effective alternative to hospitalization for newly diagnosed...
Art Levine – Long Bio
Art Levine is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, a recent Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a former Fellow with the Progressive Policy Insititute. He...
John Read, PhD – Long Bio
John joined the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1994, after working for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist and manager of mental...
Edward Opton, JD, PhD – Long Bio
PSYCH DRUG ACTION CAMPAIGN
Edward Opton, JD, PhD, is a full-time volunteer attorney at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland, California. He and colleagues...
Afiya House – Long Bio
A PEER RESPITE HOUSE
Afiya is a part of the Western Mass Recovery Learning Community (www.westernmassrlc.org). They opened on August 4th, 2012 as the first...
Bonnie Schell – Long Bio
ON OUR OWN, TOGETHER
Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005). In the...
Peter Beresford, OBE – Long Bio
SPEAKING AS A SURVIVOR RESEARCHER
Peter Beresford, OBE, is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University London and Visiting Professor at the University of East...
Andrew Scull – Long Bio
MADNESS IN CIVILIZATION
Andrew Scull is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of...
Timothy Kelly – Long Bio
THE UNCERTAIN REAL
Timothy Kelly is a doctoral student at the University of Iowa with transdisciplinary interests in psychosocial approaches to, and the sociocultural contexts...
Scott Shannon, MD – Long Bio
WHOLENESS
Scott Shannon, MD, has been a holistic doctor and psychiatrist for over thirty years. He has taught physicians and psychiatrists all over the world...
Ronald Bassman, PhD – Long Bio
RIGHTS, INCLUSION, DIGNITY - RECOVERY
After more than forty years of studying madness or what he prefers to call extreme and diverse mental states, Ron Bassman's beliefs...
Derek Pyle – Long Bio
HISTORIES OF RESISTANCE AND REFORM
Derek Pyle aims to create a historical record outlining the histories of resistance and reform within and outside of United...
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych – Long Bio
PSYCHOLOGY AND THERAPY, INSIDE AND OUT
Director of Changeways Clinic and a practicing psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, Randy Paterson blogs about psychotherapy, mood disorders, mental health...
Russell Razzaque, MD – Long Bio
DIALOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Genuinely humanistic dialogue should be at the heart of good mental health care. A vast body of research attests to the central role...
Tom Stockmann, MD – Long Bio
REFLECTIONS OF A UK PSYCHIATRY TRAINEE
Tom Stockmann is a psychiatrist in London. He is critical of what he sees as the existing excessive biomedical emphasis in psychiatry. He is currently training...
Jeremy Wallace, MD – Long Bio
THE RECOVERING PSYCHIATRIST
Jeremy Wallace is a British-trained psychiatrist, working in the public sector in Finland. His primary workplace is within a psychosis rehabilitation clinic. He...
Natalie Tobert, PhD – Long Bio
Natalie Tobert, PhD, is a British medical anthropologist, who has done original fieldwork research in India, Sudan and UK. She has created a Spiritual...
Amy Biancolli – Long Bio
FIGURING SHIT OUT
Amy Biancolli's third book, Figuring Shit Out: Love, Laughter, Suicide, and Survival (2014, Behler Publications), is a memoir of the year following her...
Robert Berezin, MD – Long Bio
Robert Berezin, MD, has been in private practice and taught psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, for thirty years. If you have a...
Elizabeth Kenny – Long Bio
Elizabeth Kenny is an actor, playwright, teacher, and lecturer. She has been working in the professional theater since 1993 and became an Artistic Associate at...
Robert Okin, MD – Long Bio
Robert L. Okin, MD, was born in the Bronx, New York. He attended college and medical school at the University of Chicago, and after...
Dick Russell – Long Bio
Dick Russell is the author of twelve books on a wide range of subjects. These include My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and...
Jennifer Bahr, ND – Long Bio
Dr. Jennifer Bahr, ND, is a licensed naturopathic doctor practicing in San Diego, CA. She specializes in the treatment of mental health and endocrine...
Justin Brown – Long Bio
THE MYTH OF NORMAL
Justin Brown identifies as a person in recovery who voluntarily takes psychotropic medication. Justin is passionate about self-determination and his opposition to involuntary...
Peter Breggin, MD – Long Bio
THE BREGGIN BLOG: THE CONSCIENCE OF PSYCHIATRY
Peter R. Breggin, MD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at NIMH. Dr. Breggin has been...
