Authors

Dr Farnsworth is a practicing psychotherapist in Aotearoa, New Zealand’s southernmost city, Dunedin. He is 1 of 6 Life Members of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (APANZ). He is also an active social scientist and has taught for 30 years across a variety of university teaching positions. He has published internationally in a wide variety of fields, including social exclusion and poverty, the Enlightenment, digital mimicry, social and dynamic theory, methodology and the cultural unconscious.

Mr Makhija is a postgraduate researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Ms Crown is a psychiatric physician assistant in State College, PA. She is the owner and managing member of Oasis LifeCare, the owner of Future Options Research, and principal investigator in clinical trials.

Dr Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as Honorary Fellow in psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge.

Dr Thrasher is the past president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, the immediate past president of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association, and the medical director of Milwaukee County Crisis Services.

Roueen Rafeyan, MD, DFAPA, FASAM

Dr Rafeyan is chief medical officer of the Gateway Foundation; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois; and the Psychiatric Times substance use section editor.

Ms Cliffel is a writer and mindfulness teacher who uses storytelling, yoga, sitting, and sound as mechanisms to liberate the mind in service of living our best lives. She does all this, including work on her memoir about postpartum psychosis, while raising 3 wonderful humans in Cleveland, Ohio.

Dr Coelho is a public health physician and university hospital assistant at the University Sleep Medicine Unit of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University Hospital of Bordeaux.

Dr Lavingia is a PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the University of Pittsburgh. Her clinical and research interests include women’s mental health and consultation-liaison psychiatry.