Amy Biancolli – Short 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...
Corrine A. Taylor – Short Bio
Corrine A. Taylor shares her story at www.theProject321.com for awareness, empowerment and change toward living a well life after experiencing trauma. Having used psychiatric services unsuccessfully for...
Julie Greene – Short Bio
Julie originally studied music education and composition at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and at Bennington College. In Julie's recent book, not yet...
Robert Berezin, MD – Short Bio
Robert Berezin has been in private practice and taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for thirty years. He is the author of Psychotherapy of...
Elizabeth Kenny – Short Bio
Elizabeth Kenny is an actor, playwright, teacher, and lecturer. Both her blog here and Sick, a solo performance written and performed by Elizabeth, explore a patient’s...
Robert Okin, MD – Short Bio
Robert Okin, an internationally known expert on mental health service reform, is a founding member of Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI). He has led the development of community...
Dick Russell – Short Bio
Dick Russell is the author of twelve books, including My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism, as well as The Life and...
Jennifer Bahr, ND – Short Bio
Dr. Bahr specializes in mental health and endocrine conditions with expertise in mood disorders and child/adolescent mental and behavioral health. Her mission is to end...
Kerstin Ogard – Short Bio
Kerstin is a former psychiatric patient who has been involved in the development of mental health services in Finland, and has also been devoting time...
Katie Higgins – Op-Ed Bio
Katie Higgins has been a registered nurse since 1974 and an adolescent psychiatry nurse since 1988. She has worked in child psychiatry at Johns...
James FitzGerald – Short Bio
James FitzGerald is a Toronto-born journalist and author. He is currently working on Dreaming Sally, a true story of first love, sudden death and synchronicity...
Peter Breggin, MD – Short Bio
The Breggin Blog: The Conscience of Psychiatry: Dr. Breggin has been called "The Conscience of Psychiatry" for his decades of successful efforts to reform...
Helene Sandstrom – Short Bio
Helene Sandstrom is a freelance translator, science journalist and former co-editor of The Swedish Journal of Nutritional Therapy and Functional Medicine, specializing in health,...
Ally Nugent – Op-Ed 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...
Justin Brown – Short Bio
The Myth of Normal: Justin Brown identifies as a person in recovery who voluntarily takes psychotropic medication. He is a member of M-Power.org, an organization of mental...
Allen Frances, MD – Short Bio
Allen Frances was the chairperson of the DSM-IV Task Force, a former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University...
Seth Farber, PhD – Long Bio
Dr. Seth Farber is a writer, social critic, dissident psychologist, visionary, activist (in the human rights, Green and anti-war movements -- and a supporter...
Jan Haaken, PhD – Op-Ed Bio
Jan Haaken is professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist in private practice, and documentary filmmaker. Haaken has published extensively...
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD – Short Bio
Jacqueline Simon Gunn, PsyD, is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Manhattan, a freelance writer and author. She is the former Psychology Internship...
Brenda Vezina – Short Bio
Under Brenda's leadership, the Central MA Recovery Learning Community offers trainings on trauma-informed care, health and wellness, and professionalism in the peer workforce. A licensed...
Duncan Double, MD – Short Bio
Duncan Double is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and University of East Anglia. He is...
Pat Bracken, MD – Short Bio
Pat is Clinical Director of the Mental Health Service in West Cork, Ireland, and a founder of the UK Critical Psychiatry Network. He tries to...
Laysha Ostrow, PhD – Short Bio
Laysha Ostrow is the CEO of Live & Learn, Inc. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2014,...
Susan Rogers – Short Bio
…Changing the Things I Can’t Accept: Active in the movement for social justice since 1984, Susan Rogers is inspired by Angela Davis’s response to...
David Walker, PhD – Short Bio
Speaking in the Borrowed Language: David Walker, PhD, is a Missouri Cherokee psychologist, writer, and musician. He consults with the Yakama Indian Nation, and...
