The Future of Mental Health Interview Series

[Jill Anderson]

Interviews with 100+ Innovators, Game-Changers, and Alternative Helpers

These interviews appear on Dr. Maisel’s Psychology Today blog “Rethinking Mental Health” from mid-January, 2016 through the end of April, 2016 and complement Dr. Maisel’s new book The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm, which you can access here.

To access the post that introduces the series, please visit here.

If you have an RSS reader installed on your computer and would like to follow the series using RSS click here. If you don’t have an RSS reader you can still read the interviews here and the Sunday newsletter will include fresh links each week so you can follow along.

To access the post that introduces the series, please visit here.

To access the latest interview, please visit here.

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INTERVIEW SERIES

1/18. Bonnie Burstow on Feminist Psychotherapy and the Power of Language
1/19. Dan Stradford on Safe Harbor and Alternative Mental Health
1/20. Nicole Gibson on Australia’s Rogue and Rouge Foundation
1/21. Peter Beresford on Shaping Our Lives
1/22. Paula Caplan on Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis
1/23. Lee Jampolsky on Inspirational Psychology
1/24. Jackie Goldstein on Communities of Care
1/25. Henry Shukman on Buddhism and Healing
1/26. Sharna Olfman on the Science and Pseudoscience of Children’s Mental Health
1/27. Tim Carey on Parenting Skills and Family Mental Health
1/28. Monica Cassani on Beyond Meds: Everything Matters
1/29. Michael Cornwall on Jung, R. D. Laing, and Social Control
1/30. Lucy Johnstone on Critical Psychiatry and Psychological Formulation
1/31. James Maddux on Positive Clinical Psychology
2/1. Isabel Clarke on Psychosis and Spiritual Experiences
2/2. Robert Whitaker on Mad in America
2/3. Susan Raeburn on Group Psychotherapy
2/4. Robert Salvit on Kabbalah and Spiritual Healing
2/5. Gayle Flanigan on Rose Hill Center
2/6. Robert Stolorow on Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Emotional Trauma
2/7. Claudia Gold on The Silenced Child
2/8. Bill D. on Alcoholics Anonymous
2/9. Jackee Holder on Life Coaching, Self-Coaching and Emotional Health
2/10. Rorie Hutter on Innisfree Village
2/11. Lori Sylvester on Residential Treatment for Adolescent Girls
2/12. Joanna Moncrieff on The Myth of the Chemical Cure
2/13. Rosie Kuhn on Transformational Coaching
2/14. Alex Lickerman on The Undefeated Mind
2/15. Anna Yusim on Humanistic Psychiatry
2/16. David Barash on Evolutionary Biology and Mental Health
2/17. Sam Thompson on the Diagnosis Debate
2/18. Eleanor Longden on Recovery-Oriented Approaches
2/19. Robert Berezin on the Psychotherapy of Character
2/20. Krista MacKinnon on Families Healing Together
2/21. Gail McMeekin on Coaching, Empowerment, and Success
2/22. Rob Levit on Mentoring and Creating Communities
2/23. Maria Rundle on Gould Farm
2/24. Scott Rose on Way Station
2/25. Shannon Easley on Skyland Trail
2/26. Sara Tai on Inner City Mental Health
2/27. Heather Leonardo on Breaking Ground
2/28. Claire Brockman Moody on Art Psychotherapy with Children & Adolescents
2/29. Richard Bentall on Childhood Trauma
3/1. Lois Holzman on Social Therapy
3/2. Peter Kinderman on the British Psychological Society
3/3. Marilyn Wedge on Reclaiming Childhood
3/4. Jed Diamond on Individual Psychotherapy
3/5. Ruth Folit on Healing Through Journaling
3/6. Shawn Rubin on Gender Diversity Issues
3/7. Mary Olson on Dialogic Practice and the Open Dialogue Method
3/8. Gary Greenberg on Manufacturing Depression
3/9. Brent Robbins on Children on Antipsychotics
3/10. Anne Cooke on Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia
3/11. Laurie Reid on Child-to-Parent Violence
3/12. Gregg Levoy on Meaningful Work
3/13. Eva Weaver on Sexual Intimacy
3/14. Steve Coe on Community Access NYC
3/15. Melissa Raven on Video-Based Tele-Health
3/16. Jonathan Raskin on Constructivism and Ethical Meaning-Making
3/17. Jennifer Press on Transpersonal Counseling
3/18. Dale McGowan on Rational Thinking and Emotional Wellbeing
3/19. Yana Jacobs on Excellence in Mental Health Care
3/20. Mark Ragins on MHA Village
3/21. Laura Delano on Post-Psychiatry
3/22. Martin Whitely on ADHD
3/23. Lois DeVries on the Transformational Power of Gardening
3/24. Carl Elliott on the Dark Side of Medicine
3/25. Joanne Cacciatore on Bereavement Work and Traumatic Loss
3/26. Dennis Embry on the Children’s Mental Health Network
3/27. Melanie Greenberg on the Stress-Proof Brain
3/28. Michael Gilbert on the International Society for Ethical Psychiatry & Psychology
3/29. Leslie Becker-Phelps on Childhood Trauma and Love Insecurities
3/30. Harris Friedman on Transpersonal Psychology
3/31. Emily Moen on Thresholds Organization
4/1. Sascha Altman DuBrul on Transformative Mutual Aid Practices
4/2. Patrick Landman on French Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry
4/3. Chene Walz on College Counseling Services
4/4. Gerald Klickstein on Musicians’ Issues
4/5. Rosemary O’Connor on Residential Treatment for Women in Recovery
4/6. Suman Fernando on Diversity and Mental Health
4/7. Robert Foltz on Adolescent and Adult Residential Treatment
4/8. Nessie Shaw on Life Purpose, Meaning and Mental Health
4/9. Rudi Dallos on Narrative Therapy, Family Therapy & Psychological Formulation
4/10. Sami Timimi on the Myth of Autism and Other Mental Health Issues of Childhood
4/11. Ken Paul Rosenthal on Film and Media for Mental Health Advocacy
4/12. Carina Hakansson on the Family Care Foundation
4/13. Dabney Alix on Spiritual Narratives of Psychosis
4/14. Phil Borges on Crazywise and Storytelling for Social Change
4/15. Laysha Ostrow on Live & Learn
4/16. Grace Joubarne on Hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom
4/17. Steven Morgan on Intentional Peer Support
4/18. Corinna West on Wellness Wordworks
4/19. Jon Jureidini on the Critical and Ethical Mental Health Research Group
4/20. Jennifer Padron on Peer Support and Peer Services
4/21. Gail Hornstein on First-Person Narratives of Madness
4/22. Leah Harris on Mental Health as a Social Justice Issue
4/23. David Healy on the Antidepressant Era
4/24. Olga Runciman on the Danish Hearing Voices Network
4/25. Rachel Cooper on Health, Illness, and Disease
4/26. Peter Breggin on Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
4/27. Christine LaCerva on Environments for Emotional Development
4/28. Pavel Katchalov on Russian Mental Health Services
4/29. Richard Hallam on Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy
4/30. Lauren Tenney on Mad Activism
5/1. Russell Razzaque on Psychiatry and Mindfulness
5/2. James Gottstein on Psychiatric Rights
5/3. Charlie Heriot-Maitland on Compassion-Focused Therapy
5/4. Catherine Lucas on the Spiritual Crisis Network
5/5. James Davies on the Harmfulness of Psychiatry
5/6. Katie Mottram on Normalizing Mental Distress
5/7. David Webb on Activist Websites and Social Media
5/8. Hugh Polk on Psychiatry and Social Therapy
5/9. David Oaks on Psychiatric Survivor Activism
5/10. Amy Smith on Art and Psychiatric Activism
5/11. David Walker on Western Mental Health and Indigenous Peoples

Future interview series are planned. If you’d like to recommend someone to be interviewed, please drop Dr. Maisel an email at [e-mail]. If you have the email address for the person you’re recommending, that information would be appreciated.

These interview series complement and are in support of Dr. Maisel’s The Future of Mental Health: Deconstructing the Mental Disorder Paradigm, which can be viewed and purchased here.