Here are some brief biographies of the interviewed professionals in our film:

• Terrence Real, L.I.C.S.W
• Peter Breggin, M.D.
• Steven Hickman, Psy.D.
• Loren Mosher, M.D.
• Lewis L. Judd, M.D.
• Connye Smalley
• Walter Rutherford, Ph.D.
• Lawrence Price, M.D.
• Walter Brown, M.D.
• John Lenberg

Terrence Real, L.I.C.S.W

Terrence Real has been a faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge since 1981. In 2002 Terry founded The Relational Recovery Institute, dedicated to therapist training as well as relationship workshops for everyone.

He is the author of I Don't Want to Talk about it: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner 1997), and How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women (Scribner 2002), and most recently The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work (Random House). Terry's work on men's issues and on couple's therapy has been featured in numerous medical publications as well as newspapers, magazines, and television shows. Some of these include the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Reader's Digest, Redbook, Men's Health, Psychology Today, Good Morning America, ABC News 20/20, America's Health Network, and Oprah.

He has been a practicing family therapist and teacher of couples and family therapy for over twenty years. He has lectured and given workshops nationwide on Relational Recovery, depression, boy's development, male psychology, addictions recovery, and spirituality. Terry is a graduate and former faculty member of Smith College School for Social Work, a licensed independent clinical social worker, and a member of NASW.

 

Terry lives with his wife, family therapist, Belinda Berman, and their two sons in Newton, Massachusetts.

 

To learn more about Terrence Real and Relational Recovery therapy, visit his website: http://www.terryreal.com

 

 

Peter Breggin, M.D. 

Peter R. Breggin, M.D. is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist with a private practice in Ithaca, New York where he works with individuals, couples and families with children. He is the author of many scientific articles and groundbreaking books including Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac, The War Against Children of Color, the Ritalin Fact Book and the Antidepressant Fact Book. His most recent and comprehensive book is Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharmaceutical Complex (Springer, 2008).

 

As a critic of psychiatric drugs, electroshock and lobotomy, and as an advocate of patient rights, Dr. Breggin’s reform work spans fifty years. His efforts have affected government policies, modified drug labels, and changed how the public views psychiatry and how the profession views itself. He is the founder of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP.org) and the peer-reviewed journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry.

Dr. Breggin’s educational background includes Harvard   College (with honors), the Case-Western Reserve School of Medicine, and internship and psychiatric residencies at Harvard’s Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Syracuse. Following the competition of his psychiatric training, he became a full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for two years, and then went into private practice. He has taught at numerous universities, including the Johns Hopkins Department of Counseling

Dr. Breggin’s specific achievements in the arena of psychiatric reform include stopping the resurgence of lobotomy and psychosurgery in the 1970s, exposing the brain-damaging effects of electroshock in the 1980s, stopping racist federal research programs in the1990s, and warning about the risks of stimulant drugs prescribed to children. His research and educational efforts helped to push the FDA to upgrade its warnings for adverse reactions to anti psychotic drugs and antidepressants. He has been a medical expert in landmark lawsuits involving the hazards of medication, electroshock and psychosurgery, as well as product liability suits against pharmaceutical companies.

 

To view Dr. Breggin’s bibliography and resume, visit his website Psychiatric Drug Facts: http://www.breggin.com/prbbio.html

 

Steven Hickman, Psy.D.
Dr. Hickman is a graduate of the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), San Diego Campus and has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry since 2002. Primarily a clinician, Dr. Hickman works within the Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Medicine service focusing his efforts on the psychological aspects of medical illness. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Hickman supervises clinical psychology trainees in the area of behavioral medicine. He is also an Adjunct Professor at CSPP at Alliant International University, where he teaches courses in psychological assessment and psychotherapy, as well as mentoring student dissertation research.

Dr. Hickman is primarily a clinician, but is involved in clinical research on the topics of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and the role of mindfulness in perception of pain, coping with chronic pain and illness, and ways in which clinical psychology can facilitate and enhance treatment of serious medical illness like cancer.

As noted above, Dr. Hickman works almost exclusively with patients whose primary concern revolves around chronic and/or life-threatening medical illness. His particular specialty is in teaching courses in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to patients suffering with these conditions (as well as people dealing with anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses). Mindfulness is a particularly fast-growing (and well-researched) aspect of psychology based upon the practice of meditation and present-moment awareness as a way of coping, healing and living with the challenges and opportunities of daily life. Dr. Hickman incorporates aspects of mindfulness and acceptance into his work with groups of patients, as well as in individual psychotherapy.

 

Loren Mosher, M.D.

Born and raised in California, Dr. Mosher received his B.A. from Stanford University and M.D., with honors, from Harvard Medical School in 1961, where he also subsequently took his psychiatric training. He was Clinical Director of Mental Health Services for San Diego, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego.

His professional training and experience is both extensive and wide-ranging. He received research training at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland and at the Tavistock Clinic in London. From 1968-80 he was the first Chief of NIMH's Center for Studies of Schizophrenia. While with the NIMH he founded and served as first Editor-in-Chief of the Schizophrenia Bulletin.

From 1970 to 1992 he was a collaborating investigator, then Research Director, of the Soteria Project -- Community Alternatives for the Treatment of Schizophrenia. In this role, he was instrumental in developing and researching an innovative, non-drug, non-hospital, home-like, residential treatment facility for acutely psychotic persons.

In addition to over 100 articles and reviews, Dr. Mosher has edited books on the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia and on Milieu Treatment. His book, Community Mental Health: Principles and Practice, written with his Italian colleague, Dr. Lorenzo Burti, was published by W.W. Norton in 1989. A revised, updated, abridged paperback version, Community Mental Health: A Practical Guide, appeared in 1994. It has been translated into five languages. Most recently he founded his own consulting company, Soteria Associates, to provide individual, family and system consultation using the breadth of experience described above.

In 1998, Dr. Mosher resigned from the American Psychiatric Association on moral grounds, denouncing the association for its drug-centered treatment standards and for what he termed an “unholy alliance” with the pyschopharmaceutical industry.

Dr. Mosher died from liver cancer on July 10^th, 2004, before the completion of this film.

 

Visit the Soteria website to read more articles about Dr. Mosher’s life and work, reviews and excerpts from his books, tributes, and more.

http://www.moshersoteria.com/index.htm

 

Read the obituary published in the British Medical Journal, which explains more about Dr. Mosher’s work with schizophrenics and his research in non-drug treatments.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/329/7463/463

 

 

Lewis L. Judd, M.D.

This former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (1987-90) is internationally known for his pioneering work in the biological causes of mental illness, the development of effective drugs to treat diseases such as depression, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia, and the advocacy of equitable treatment and insurance reimbursement for mental health patients.

Dr. Judd helped establish UCSD’s Department of Psychiatry, designated by the NIH as a clinical research center of excellence in mood disorders, alcoholism, neurobehavioral study of HIV, geriatric psychiatry, and more.

He currently serves as a member of the Panel of Experts at the World Health Organization. Judd’s research has included studies in clinical psychopharmacology; biological psychiatry; basic and clinical studies in specific mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, panic states, and social phobias; and the assessment of the effects of psychotropic medications on the full spectrum of psychological behavior and mood functions.

 

Connye Smalley

In 1989, Connye Smalley earned her degree in psychology at San Diego State University. She spent several years as a rehabilitation specialist and since then has become a leading advocate for the rights of the mentally ill. She developed a Client Needs Survey and administered it to more than 2,000 individuals with mental illness. San Diego County Administration incorporated the results of her survey in the Mental Health System of Care Re-Design Plans.

 

In addition to serving on several boards and advisory groups, she is also the program director of Visions Clubhouse in San Diego’s south bay area. Visions is a non-profit, community-based program which provides peer support to the homeless and mentally ill along with vocational training. Clients are taught to overcome the stigma of their illness and accept help from others.

 

Having come from a broken home and having struggled with her own depression,  Connye Smalley’s therapeutic standpoint is one deeply rooted in personal experience. Here’s an article from San Diego’s Union Tribune detailing her path from patient to educator: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/roberts/20010430-463-ex-patie.html 

 

 

Walter Rutherford, Ph.D.

Walter Rutherford has spent over 30 years as a therapist and educator. He founded one of the first Vietnam Veterans Counseling Centers funded by the Veterans Administration and since then has been at the forefront of the treatment and research in the area of trauma and addiction recovery. Dr. Rutherford has taught at many of San Diego’s local colleges and universities in these subjects as well as spiritual approaches to psychotherapy and Integrative Psychology. He is known for his Group Leadership and ability to build communities that are therapeutic. He is trained as a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and is known for his leadership in the emergence of Tibetan healing. He currently sits as a faculty member at the California Institute for Human Science. He and his wife, Rev. Bonnie Tarwater, have lived with their four children in San Diego for over 20 years.

 

 

Lawrence Price, M.D.

Dr. Price attended the University of Michigan, where he first received a B.S. with highest honors in psychology and high distinction in 1974, followed by an M.D. in 1978. After an internship in internal medicine at Norwalk Hospital, he completed a residency and fellowship in psychiatry at Yale University. From 1982 until 1996, Dr. Price was on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, where he served as Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Since 1996, he has served as Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University and Clinical Director and Director of Research at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as Chair of the Butler Hospital Institutional Review Board. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Price has received numerous awards for his teaching and clinical work, and is Editor of the Brown University Psychopharmacology Update.

 

 

 

Walter Brown, M.D.

After completing training in psychiatry and a fellowship in neuroendocrinology, Dr. Walter Brown has been at Brown University since 1974 in various capacities. In the early 1980s, Dr. Brown carried out some clinical trials of psychiatric drugs, first in the hospital environment and later at community clinics. He went on to found Clinical Programs -- one of the first freestanding clinical trial sites in the world.

 

On the basis of Clinical Programs’ success, Dr. Brown co-founded a multi-center
organization in 1990 called Clinical Studies, and it acquired Clinical Programs.
Clinical Studies grew to become the largest and best-known SMO, with 24 centers -- including a phase I inpatient unit and about 300 employees.  Based on
experiences with Clinical Studies in the US, in April of 2000 Dr. Brown co-founded Clinical Research Centres South Africa (CRC SA).

 

 

John Lenberg

John Lenberg works for Anthony Robbins Institute, a global seminar company which trains individuals and organizations around the world in leadership strategies. He and his team of ten coaches meet with individuals to conduct “momentum sessions” where clients learn to create a specific plan for personal fulfillment and to overcome the mental blocks that prevent them from reaching it.

Having suffered from bouts of depression, Lenberg began his journey of recovery by attending motivational workshops and group counseling sessions. He soon discovered Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), a psychotherapeutic technique that empowers individuals to choose their own mental, behavioral, and emotional states of well-being. Lenberg is now a trained master practitioner in NLP. He has also worked as a seminar facilitator for Dennis Waitley, author of The Psychology of Winning.

 

When he is not working the seminar circuit, Lenberg travels between his two homes in Florida and Thailand. He is currently working on his first book, Inner Rapport.

 

Learn more about NLP at the Empowerment Partnership website:

http://www.nlp.com/whatisnlp.aspx