Susan Musante, LPCC – Short Bio
Susan Musante, LPCC was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska and CHOICES, alternatives to conventional community mental health services directed and provided primarily by people...
Elinor Taylor – Short Bio
Elinor Taylor will complete her Master's in Counseling in Spring 2015. She has interned as a Mental Health Counselor and is currently working as...
Art Levine – Short 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 Institute....
Suzanne Beachy – Short Bio
Suzanne Beachy is a mother, musician, writer, and activist, who advocates for more recovery-oriented approaches to treating the kind of mental/emotional distress which gets...
John Read, PhD – Short Bio
John Read is on the Executive Committee of ISPS, and editor of its scientific journal "Psychosis." In 2015, he became Professor of Clinical Psychology at Swinburne University...
Julie Wood – Short Bio
Julie is a CPA, CA and MBA who changed careers when she lost her son, John David, to the effects of psychiatric drugs in...
Luisa Castagnaro – Short Bio
Luisa Castagnaro, MA, is a former teacher of ESL and psychiatric survivor since 1978. Author of Bittersweet Journeys, a poetic anthology, Luisa is working on a...
Bonnie Schell – Short Bio
On Our Own, Together: Bonnie Schell is co-editor of On Our Own, TOGETHER: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness, and has been an active member of Psychiatric...
Peter Beresford, OBE – Short Bio
Speaking As A Survivor Researcher: Peter Beresford is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University, London and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives.
Bevin Croft – Short Bio
Bevin Croft is a Research Associate at Human Services Research Institute and project director of the 2nd Story Peer Respite program evaluation. Her research focuses...
Andrew Scull – Short Bio
Madness in Civilization: Andrew Scull is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at UC, San Diego. He is the author of many books and...
Timothy Kelly – Short Bio
The Uncertain Real: Timothy Kelly is a doctoral student with interests in psychosocial approaches to, and the sociocultural contexts of, states often under the...
Scott Shannon, MD – Short Bio
Wholeness: Scott has been a holistic doctor and psychiatrist for over thirty years. He has taught physicians and psychiatrists all over the world about...
Becca Shaw Glaser – Short Bio
Becca Shaw Glaser is co-editor and author of Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out (AK Press), a booklet on engaging in activism while caring for...
Ronald Bassman, PhD – Short Bio
Rights, Inclusion, Dignity - RECOVERY: Ron Bassman is a licensed psychologist who writes about "the recovery path, an individual struggle of becoming." He seeks...
Derek Pyle – Short Bio
Histories of Resistance and Reform: Derek writes about his project to create a historical record outlining the histories of resistance and reform within and...
Randy Paterson, PhD, RPsych – Short 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 policy, and...
Elahe Hessamfar – Short Bio
Elahe Hessamfar is a former business executive and has a PhD in Divinity from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She has an MA...
Daisy Anderson – Short Bio
In The Daisy Project, Daisy’s upcoming book, she shares her insider knowledge as a former mental health nurse and as a former psychiatric patient....
Russell Razzaque, MD – Short Bio
Dialogical Psychiatry: In his column, Dr. Russell Razzaque, a UK-based psychiatrist, discusses mindfulness and related practices that help clinicians connect with themselves in order...
Tom Stockmann, MD – Short Bio
Reflections of a UK Psychiatry Trainee: Tom is a psychiatrist in London. He writes about his reflections as he journeys through UK higher psychiatry training, from exploring the causes of his disillusionment with the current mental...
Jeremy Wallace, MD – Short Bio
The Recovering Psychiatrist: Jeremy is a British trained psychiatrist, working in the public sector in Finland. His primary workplace is within a psychosis rehabilitation...
Janet Singer – Short Bio
Janet Singer is an advocate for OCD awareness, with the goal of spreading the word that OCD, no matter how severe, is treatable. She...
Peter Parry, MD – Short Bio
Dr. Peter Parry is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, clinical director of mental health services at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and...
Natalie Tobert, PhD – Short Bio
Natalie Tobert is a medical anthropologist, the author of Spiritual Psychiatries, a visiting lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and seminar facilitator in hospitals...
