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  • About the Authors

Monique Boivin (MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health) is an international public health consultant specializing in monitoring and evaluation. Her work focuses on strengthening health systems and contributing to health and human rights movements throughout East and Southern Africa. She can be contacted via e-mail at: moniqueb@umich.edu

David Brendel, MD, PHD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Deputy Editor of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Associate Medical Director of the Pavilion at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He is the author of Healing Psychiatry: Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide (MIT Press, 2006). He can be contacted via e-mail at: dbrendel@partners.org

D. B. Double is Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and University of East Anglia. He is a founding member and the website editor of the Critical Psychiatry Network (www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk ). He is the editor of Critical Psychiatry: The Limits of Madness (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He can be contacted via e-mail at: dbdouble@dbdouble.co.uk

Nassir Ghaemi is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Tufts Medical Center. He is the author of The Concepts of Psychiatry (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), and has specialized interest in bipolar disorder and philosophy of psychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at: nghaemi@tufts-nemc.org

Jerome Kroll (BA [Philosophy], Brown University; MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) is Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He is Chief Psychiatrist for the Southeast Asian and East African Refugee Mental Health Program at the Community–University Health Care Clinic and psychiatric consultant to the Wilder Southeast Asian Program. His current research interests include psychoses, posttraumatic stress disorder, and demoralization in cross-cultural psychiatry, and the moral emotions. Dr. Kroll has written The Challenge of the Borderline Patient (1988) and PTSD/Borderlines in Therapy: Finding the Balance (1993). He has co-authored, with Sir Martin Roth, The Reality of Mental Illness (1986), and with Bernard Bachrach, The Mystic Mind (2005). He contributed the chapter on borderline personality disorder to the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (1994). He has published many research articles on the history of mental illness in medieval Europe and has written the section on mental illness for the Oxford Medieval Dictionary (forthcoming). He can be contacted via e-mail at: kroll001@umn.edu [End Page 381]

Bradley Lewis (MD, University of Tennessee, 1982; PhD, George Washington University, 2002) teaches philosophic and cultural studies of medicine, psychiatry, and science at New York University (in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and in the Psychiatry Department). His book in press is titled Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: Birth of Postpsychiatry. He can be contacted via e-mail at: bl466@nyu.edu

Suzanne M. Phillips (PhD [Clinical/Community Psychology], State University of New York at Buffalo, 1990) is currently Professor of Psychology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She is interested in communitarian models of mental health and mental illness, community-based restorative care of individuals with mental illness, and the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on attitudes about mental health. Of particular concern is the synthesis or integration of various models of mental illness. She can be contacted via e-mail atsuzanne.phillips@gordon.edu

Jennifer Radden is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her research explores mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. Her published writing on melancholy and depression includes many articles and one edited collection, The Nature of Melancholy (Oxford 2000). Her Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression will be published in 2008. She can be contacted via e-mail at: Jennifer.Radden@umb.edu

Jeffrey Spike (PhD [Philosophy], The Johns Hopkins University, 1987) is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at the Florida State University College of Medicine. He coordinates the integration of ethics into all four years of the curriculum, including an innovative sequence...

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