Notes on Contributors

Claire Bien, is the author of Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head, and a Research Associate at the Yale University Program for Recovery and Community Health. She is on the Board of Directors, and President, for the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis United States Chapter (ISPS-US), and highly involved in the peer support movement, including the Hearing Voices Network (HVN).

Marie Brown, is a clinical psychologist, Special Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Long Island University Brooklyn, and co-editor (with Robin S. Brown) of the book Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness: Psychological, Social and Spiritual Perspectives. She is on the Board of Directors, and Vice President, for the International Society for the Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis United States Chapter (ISPS-US), and highly involved in the peer support movement, including the Hearing Voices Network (HVN).

Marilyn Charles, is a practicing psychoanalyst and staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center. She has published over 90 articles and book chapters, and five books.

Catherine Cho, is a literary agent and the author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness. She lives in London with her family.

Michael Healey, received his BA in biology and public health from the University of Rochester in 2016 as part of their early medical scholars program. After matriculating into medical school, he became increasingly interested in the medical humanities, and took leave to study the history of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. After completing his PhD, Michael plans to finish his undergraduate medical education at Rochester and pursue a career in psychiatry.

Brett Kahr, has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health in the Regent's School of Psychotherapy and Psychology