David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales, and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology from Harvard University Press, The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3 and Let Them Eat Prozac from New York University Press, and Mania from Johns Hopkins University Press and Pharmageddon.

Arnold is a clinical social worker by training with experience in school social work and community behavioral health. His practice interests consist of working with children, adolescents, and their families in a clinical capacity. Born in Mexico and having grown up in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, he is currently a doctoral student at Colorado State University with an interest in researching conceptual and practical alternatives to the DSM.

Dr. David Edward Walker accepted a position as sole professional psychologist serving the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation with the Indian Health Service in 2000 and relocated with his family to central Washington. Over the years, David has developed his own scholarship on a lesser-known perpetrator of cultural oppression in Native America — the U.S. mental health movement itself. He first began seeing the fruits of this system's troubling history in his everyday work. For example, some Native youth and young adults felt convinced their lack of success in school and other places came from an underlying genetic inferiority, being "born Indian," an internalized racism traceable to the biases of psychologists working in American Indian boarding schools in the first half of the twentieth century. Coyote's Swing: A Memoir & Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America (Washington State University Press, 2023) is his first nonfiction book, and the only comprehensive history and critique of the U.S. mental health system in Indian Country.

Angela is a female combat veteran, a psychiatric drug withdrawal consultant, a writer, and a YouTube creator. She travels in her campervan across the United States, to improve the mental health care system for veterans and civilians alike. Some of Angela’s commendations include Veterans of Foreign Wars Legislative Fellow, Wounded Warrior Project Courage Award recipient, and a finalist for Student Veteran of the Year with Student Veterans of America. Her story of overmedication after trauma appears in the film Medicating Normal (2020). During the past three years, she spearheaded the outreach of the film, hosting community screenings across the world. She created a safe container for members of the audience to critically think about our modern mental health industry, informed consent, and psychiatric drug use and withdrawal.

Dr. Tarantolo has been in the private practice of psychiatry for over 40 years. He discovered the uselessness of antidepressants in 1987, therefore edging him on to help wean patients off of psychiatric drugs. He’s been an expert witness for plaintiffs who have had family members with antidepressant induced suicide. He’s written a psychological study of why doctors prescribe useless and dangerous drugs such as neuroleptics. He made a cameo appearance in the film "Thank you For Your Service" explaining the need for national grieving over the moral injury of war. He has explained that PTSD is a political diagnosis.

David Cohen is Professor of Social Welfare and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research looks at psychoactive drugs (prescribed, licit, and illicit) and their desirable and undesirable effects as socio-cultural phenomena “constructed” through language, policy, attitudes, and social interactions. He also documents treatment-induced harms (iatrogenesis), and pursues international comparative research on mental health trends, especially involving alternatives to coercion. He has authored or co-authored over 120 articles and book chapters. His edited books include Challenging the Therapeutic State (1990), Médicalisation et contrôle social (1996), and Critical New Perspectives on ADHD (2006). His co-authored books include Guide critique des médicaments de l’âme (1995), Your Drug May Be Your Problem (1999/2007), and Mad Science (2013).

CDR Vieten, a board certified clinical psychologist, served on active duty from 1998 - 2008, with tours at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Roosevelt Roads (Puerto Rico), and Naval Air Station Patuxent River. In 2008 CDR Vieten transferred to the Select Reserve, where she has held several positions, including the Officer-in-Charge of the Headquarters Detachment, Expeditionary Medical Facility, Bethesda, and Regional Detachment Director for New England. In 2014, she was recalled to active duty and assigned to the staff of the Navy Chief of Chaplains where she trained over 1,000 military chaplains worldwide in pastoral response to operational and military sexual trauma. She has completed two deployments (2006, 2013) in support of OIF/OEF.

Dr. Vieten is the Executive Director of Warfighter Advance, Inc, which provides intense training programs, such as The ADVANCE 7-Day, for active duty and veteran warfighters with operational stress and reintegration issues. The ADVANCETM is a non-medical 7-day training program that uses a variety of means to change the trajectory of the warfighter’s (active duty or veteran) post-deployment life, so that rather than an existence characterized by an endless cycle of mental illness diagnoses, medications, medical appointments and disappointments, the warfighter has a life characterized by pride, productivity, healthy relationships, continued service, and advocacy for the same outcomes for their fellow service members.

Her civilian practice, Operational Psychology Solutions, serves clients who are military, public safety, veterans, and civilians who work or have worked in high-risk operational environments. She actively encourages her clients to pursue trauma recovery and resilience outside of the medical model, and proactively educates them on the dangers of psychopharmacology. With this approach, she has been successful in keeping her clients in their occupations, or returning them to a fit-for-duty status, while empowering them to manage residual symptoms and assist their peers.

Dr. Vieten serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry (ISEPP), and on the Board of Directors for Operation Grateful Nation (Massena, NY).