Spotlight On Our Members
Each season, our newly designed website will feature a profile of an ISPS-US member. We are pleased to inaugurate this series with a spotlight on the work of two ISPS-US Honorary Members: Courtenay Harding, PhD., and Daniel Mackler, LCSW.
ISPS-US Honorary Member 2009
Courtenay M. Harding, Ph.D.
Courtenay M. Harding, Ph.D. is professor of psychiatry and now the new director of the Center for Rehabilitation and Recovery at the Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies here in NYC. The Coalition is composed of 120 agencies who serve about 350,000 people.
Dr. Harding moved here from Boston where she was the Senior Director of Boston University’s well-known Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation under William Anthony. Among her research endeavors, She participated in two three-decade NIMH studies of schizophrenia and other serious illnesses and found that many once profoundly disabled persons could and did significantly improve and/ or even fully recover. These findings, similar to eight other long-term studies from across the world, helped to create the Institute for the Study of Human Resilience in order to investigate ways in which people reclaimed their lives.
Dr. Harding has been the recipient of over 40 awards and honors including the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award from the American Psychological Association’s foundation for “exceptional contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness and for mentoring a new generation of researchers” She has published extensively about rehabilitation and recovery and has presented findings from her studies and clinical work in over 500 state, national, and international meetings. Dr. Harding has worked with 30 states, 11 European and 9 Asian countries to redesign their systems of care.
ISPS-US Honorary Member 2010
Daniel Mackler, LCSW
Daniel Mackler, LCSW was a private practice psychotherapist in New York City. Having recently ended his practice, he is presently engaged in a world tour in which he is making a documentary film involving showing the humanity and efficacy of various international, alternative, psychosocial programs for psychosis and featuring the voices and perspectives of a panoply of psychiatric survivors. Daniel is the director of Take These Broken Wings, a 2008 documentary film on recovery from schizophrenia without medication and he is also the co-editor (with David Garfield, MD) of Beyond Medication: Therapeutic Engagement and the Recovery from Psychosis, which is part of the ISPS/Routledge book series. Daniel has also recently co-authored (with Matthew Morrissey, MFT) A Way Out of Madness: Dealing with Your Family After You Have Been Diagnosed with a Psychiatric Disorder, which is the first book in the new ISPS-US book series. His website is www.iraresoul.com.
If you would like to be featured in a future Member Spotlight, contact Karen Stern, and provide a brief description of your work.
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