Category: Contributors

Alan Robinson was born in 1977; he lives in Argentina and works as an author, teacher, and speaker. He is dedicated to writing, publishing, and selling his books. He writes in a wide variety of genres, including humor, crime fiction, theater, and essays. His fiction explores universal human experiences related to neurodivergent characters. His essay…

Johanna Södermark is a poet and singer-songwriter, an artist, therapist and guide in creative, relational exploration of life. She is also a survivor and healer of the emergence and emergency of her deep soul through bipolar psychoses, mania and a deep sense of disconnection to a system that was failing her longing for flowing and…

(they/she)  Trainer, LGBTQIA+ community organizer, social artist. Cait was a professional soccer player before turning to embodied movements from the pitch as tools for somatic activism focused on team, healing justice and community mental health. Cait’s work involves developing team orientations of movement and exploring processes of deceleration with technologies of mutual care. Cait is…

Raffaella Pocobello, PhD in Clinical Psychology, is a researcher at the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where she coordinates the CaRe Lab (Capabilities and Relational Practice in Mental Health). She lectures at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna and is an Open Dialogue trainer and supervisor. Her work focuses on dialogical and community-based approaches…

Gretchen LeFever Watson, Ph.D., is a pediatric and licensed clinical psychologist with extensive expertise in public health and patient safety. Her work has focused on improving the mental health of children and young adults. She has held clinical, research, and leadership positions in academic medical centers, public health programs, and community based initiatives, with a…

Co-Director/Producer, Medicating Normal Executive Director, Periscope Foundation Since the release of her film Medicating Normal on PBS, Amazon, and YouTube in 2022, Lynn Cunningham has dedicated herself to raising public awareness about the medicalization of distress and the importance of informed consent. Through film screenings and related outreach, she works to help patients, families, and medical professionals…

Director of The Art of Living Lydia Diana Kok is a 24-year old documentary director. She finished her bachelor’s degree at the Norwegian Television School in 2025, and has since then been working at Fabelaktiv, a production company located in Hamar. In her work she wants to portray what it means to be human, with life’s ups and downs,…

Monica Strømland works as an Associate Professor at the University of Agder, at the Department of Psychosocial Health, where her daily work includes teaching, research, and supervising students on topics such as ethics, legislation and organization in the health sector, research ethics, and the development of research projects, as well as master’s theses in psychosocial…

Jo Watson is a psychotherapist, writer and activist who, in 2016, had had enough of the pathologising of normal human experience and decided to do something about it. She approached Lucy Johnstone and together they hosted the first A Disorder for Everyone event, challenging the culture of diagnosis and disorder. Adisorder4everyone.com Ten years and more…

MD, MPH Vegard Høgli has more than 40 years of experience in various public health positions, including as a county medical officer, Head of section for Service Development and Coordination at a regional health authority, co-founder of a foundation for quality improvement in social and health services, and chief medical officer for a major city…