Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health

Justin Karter - Exploring the Fault Lines in Mental Health Discourse

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Karter is a staff psychologist at Boston College University Counseling Services. He is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Counseling ...

Jim Flannery - Sorry It's Not Funny – Comedy, Hip-Hop and Activism

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by activist and artist Jim Flannery. Born and raised in suburban Weathersfield, Connecticut, Ji...

Diana Rose - Is Service-User Research Possible in Mental Health?

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Diana Rose wears many hats—academic, researcher, service user, and activist. She is a leading figure in user-led research and currently an Honor...

Jon Jureidini – Evidence-Based Medicine in a Post-Truth World

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are joined by Dr. Jon Jureidini. Jon is a child psychiatrist who also trained in philosophy, critical appr...

Liam MacGabhann, Martha Griffin, Harry Gijbels and Elaine Browne - The Launch of Mad in Ireland

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Mad in America podcast, we are really pleased to be announcing the launch of a new global affiliated site: Mad in Ireland. Mad in Ire...

Beverley Thomson – Antidepressed - Antidepressant Harm and Dependence

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Beverley Thomson. Beverley is a writer, researcher and speaker with a focus on psychiatric medication including antidepressants, be...

John Read and Jeffrey Masson - Biological Psychiatry and the Mass Murder of "Schizophrenics"

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from the co-authors of a paper published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry whi...

Kaori Wada - How Grief Became a Disorder and What This Means About Us

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2022, a new grief-related disorder was officially adopted into mainstream mental health diagnosis nomenclature. Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD...

Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is sociologist and author, Doctor Andrew Scull. Andrew is a professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California...

Kristina Marusic - Pollution's Mental Toll

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On our last podcast, Mad in the Family covered the effect of climate change and extreme weather events on children's and mothers' mental health. This ...

Jessica Taylor - Pathologized Since Eve - Women, Trauma, and Sexy but Psycho

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Jessica Taylor, author of Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them, which was published in March by Li...

Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On the podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Niall McLaren. Niall, known to many as Jock, is an Australian psychiatrist who worked for 25 years in the r...

Tara Thiagarajan - Mental Wellbeing Among Internet-enabled Populations of the World

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tara Thiagarajan is founder and chief scientist of Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mental Health Million Project and its annual Me...

Bruce Cohen - The Failings of "Mental Health": How a Seemingly Benign Concept Might be Dangerous

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Bruce Cohen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland. His career spans over thirty years where he has time and again u...

Jennifer Barkin - New Tools to Support New Moms

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Note: To find out more and to register for the 26th International Network Meeting for the Treatment of Psychosis 2022, click here. *** May is Materna...

Alice and Kenneth Thompson - Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Visible Hands Collaborative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is run by Alice Fox Thompson and Kenneth Thompson. Together, the father and daughter team ...

Trans Lifeline - Naming Trans-Specific Harm in Mental Health

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Executive Director Jahmil Roberts and Advocacy Director Yana Calou from the Trans Lifeline work towards connecting trans people to the community suppo...

Nicholas Haslam - Psych Concepts Creep Into Our Everyday Experiences

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Haslam is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. He is a prolific writer with nine books and around 270 articles to his na...

Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay - The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview, MIA speaks with Allan Horwitz and Sarah Fay about the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...

Sera Davidow - Trusting People as Experts of Themselves

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sera Davidow is a filmmaker, activist, advocate, author, and mother of two very busy kids. As a survivor of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as a...

Lynne Layton - The Social Unconscious and Character Formation in Neoliberal Culture

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lynne Layton is a psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time assistant clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Holdi...

Dana Becker - The Medicalization of Women's Suffering

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Becker is professor emeritus of social work and social research at Bryn Mawr College and has practiced as a psychotherapist for over three decade...

Michael Hengartner – Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we hear from Dr. Michael Hengartner. Michael is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerlan...

Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can't Pay Attention

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Mad in America podcast we hear from Johann Hari. Johann is an  internationally bestselling author whose books have appeared in 38 la...

Elia Abi-Jaoude - Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of the COVID pandemic, social and academic pressures, and an uncertain future, young people are struggling. Each week we see another news ...

Sebastienne Grant - Critical Psychology for a Better Society

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastienne Grant is a professor of critical psychology at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently serves as the program director for a M...

For Life - Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs Premieres on Jan 15

08 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dawn Sonntag and Kermit Cole have collaborated on creating a 30-minute opera, For Life, that explores the possible harms that can come from psychiatr...

Vincenzo Di Nicola - The Crisis in Psychiatry and The Slow Way Back

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Vincenzo Di Nicola is an Italian-Canadian child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montreal where he co-di...

Oryx Cohen and Briza Gavidia - Emotional CPR - Heart-Centered Peer Support

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast we discuss an educational program called Emotional CPR (eCPR), a form of peer support anyone can use to assist youth (or adults) in em...

Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn - How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn is a professor at Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is currently part of several nationa...

Renee Schuls-Jacobson – Psychiatrized: Waking up After a Decade of Bad Medicine

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the Mad in America podcast this week, we hear from Renee Schuls-Jacobson. Renee was a teacher for two decades and she is now an author, artist, adv...

Giovanni Fava - A Different Psychiatry is Possible

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, we hear from the renowned clinician and researcher Dr. Giovanni Fava. Dr. Fava is a psychiatrist and professor of clinical psycholog...

Hans Skott-Myhre - Can Critiques of Psychiatry Help us Imagine a Post-Capitalist Future?

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Skott-Myhre is a Professor of Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Over the last 50 years, he has worked within a wi...

Shira Collings - New Perspectives on Eating Disorders

16 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, which comes on the heels of reports linking social media use to reduced self-esteem in teen girls, eating-disorders therapist Shira ...

Helena Hansen - Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry

13 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Helena Hanson is professor and chair of translational social science and health equity and associate director for the center for social medicine at UC...

Matcheri Keshavan and Raquelle Mesholam-Gately - Why Some Experts and Patients Want to Rename Schizophrenia

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that carries a heavy social stigma. However, experts have also questioned the validity and utility of the lab...

Jim van Os and Peter Groot - When Assessing Antidepressant Withdrawal Methods, RCTs Fall Short

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we talk with Professor Jim van Os and Doctor Peter Groot about their latest study which looks at the effectiveness of tapering strips to hel...

Ursula Read - Rights Based Global Mental Health and Social Exclusion

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ursula Read is a research fellow and associate at King's College London. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from University College London, where she s...

Michael Ungar - Looking Beyond Self-Help to Understand Resilience

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Ungar is the founder and director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University in Canada. He is also a family therapist and pro...

Patricia Rush - Getting to the Root Causes of Suffering

10 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Patricia Rush, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician whose scientific focus is complex chronic illness.  Her over 40-year career has focused...

Marcela Ot'alora - MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Humility

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marcela Ot'alora works with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) as the principal investigator for government research int...

Michelle Funk - WHO and the Sea Change in Mental Health

12 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Funk is the Unit Head of the Policy, Law, and Human Rights at the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use at the World Health Organizat...

Ilana Mountian - Discourse, Drug Use, and Psychiatry

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ilana Mountian is a researcher drawing on psychoanalytic, critical, decolonial, and feminist philosophies. She is the author of Cultural Ecstasies: Dr...

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Post Withdrawal Experiences

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the MIA podcast we are providing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held in May 2021. For our third di...

Hannah Pickard - Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hanna Pickard is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also appointed with the William H...

Katrina Michelle - Psychedelics, Transformative Experiences and Healing

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Katrina Michelle is a psychologist and the founder and director of The Curious Spirit, a transpersonally oriented psychotherapeutic practice that enco...

Hannah Zeavin - Questioning the Moral Panic Around Teletherapy

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah Zeavin is a leading scholar investigating how mediated communications and technology impact our intimate relations. Her most recent work tackle...

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Exploring the Science

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

*** Our next psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall discussion will be held on May 14 2021, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/150023595613 ...

Julia Rucklidge - Nutrition and Mental Health

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of "Mad in the Family" discusses the links between nutrition and mental health, and the science that's showing that diet may help improve...

Anne Guy - How Therapists Can Help With Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anne Guy is a member of the council for evidence-based psychiatry (CEP) and works with the secretariat for the All-party Parliamentary Group for Presc...

Peter Sterling - What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life?

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Sterling, now retired from the University of Pennsylvania, is a well-known neuroscientist, having co-authored a popular text, Principles of Neur...

Bethany Morris - Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bethany Morris is an assistant professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches and does theoretical an...

Sherry Julo, Ed White and John Read – Online Support Groups for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the MIA podcast, we discuss a recent paper that considers the support provided by online support groups when people seek help for psychia...

Donzaleigh Abernathy - Creative Maladjustment

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Actor, singer, writer, and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy is goddaughter of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and daughter of the ...

Helen Spandler - Uncomfortable Truths in Survivor Narratives

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Spandler is a Professor of Mental Health Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She is the managing editor of Asylum, a non-...

Jill Nickens - The Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research

13 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Mad in America podcast we turn our attention to prescription-drug-induced akathisia and joining me to discuss this is Jill Nickens. J...

Janice Haaken - Trauma and Mental Health in Social Movements

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Janice Haaken is a professor emeritus of psychology at Portland State University, a clinical psychologist, and a documentary filmmaker. In addition to...

Howard Glasser - The Nurtured Heart Approach

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of "Mad in the Family" focuses on a non-drug method to bringing out the best in challenging children, particularly those diagnosed with "...

Lucas Richert - Psychiatry and the Counterculture

27 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lucas Richert is the George Urdang Chair in the History of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and historical director for the American ...

Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal - Setting the Scene

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are sharing the audio taken from our recent psychiatric drug withdrawal town hall held on January 15th 2021. This was our initial, scene-...

Trailer - Online Town Hall - Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mad in America, in partnership with the Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry and the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug withdrawal is arran...

Thomas Teo - Fascist Subjectivity and the Subhuman

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Teo is a Professor of Psychology in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto, Canada...

Piers Gooding - Psychosocial Disability Rights and Digital Mental Health

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Piers Gooding is a Mozilla Foundation fellow (2020) and researcher at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne Law School....

Jennifer White - Rethinking Suicide Prevention

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer White is one of the founders of the Critical Suicidology Network, a growing international network of scholars interested in exploring alterna...

Tanya Luhrmann - How Culture Influences Voice Hearing

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya Luhrmann is a Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford. Her work explores how cultural contexts shape the experie...

Adele Framer - Surviving Antidepressants

01 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

dele Framer, also known by her online handle Altostrata, is the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, a critical and comprehensive peer-support web...

Natalie Campo - Can We Move Toward Mindful Medicine?

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Natalie Campo, MD, is an integrative psychiatrist practicing in Nashville, TN. She became interested in holistic treatment modalities in her first yea...

Kirk Schneider - Leading Psychology in Existential Times

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kirk Schneider is currently running for President of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a licensed psychologist and adjunct faculty a...

Rhonda Speight - I Found My Lion's Roar - Combining Peer Support and Open Dialogue

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ronda "Ro" Speight is a mental health peer specialist and recovery advocate at the Mental Health Association of Westchester in Westchester County, New...

Stuart Shipko - SSRI Withdrawal: Shooting the Odds

12 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we interview Dr. Stuart Shipko. Dr. Shipko is a psychiatrist in private practice in Pasadena, California and author of the ...

Jodi Aman - Anxiety, I'm So Done with You

05 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of "Mad in the Family" focuses on how adolescents can better manage and even overcome anxiety—something the news media and our own eyes...

Nikolas Rose - Psychiatry and the Selves We Might Become

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nikolas Rose is a professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London. His work explores how concep...

Jussi Valtonen - How to Know What We Don't Know

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jussi Valtonen is both a novelist and a psychologist. As a novelist, his work has been compared to both George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave...

Claudia Gold - Embrace the Messiness!

18 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the "Mad in the Family" podcast discusses the role of human interaction in child development. Specifically, how conflict and miscommun...

Ian Tucker - Mental Health and Emotion in the Digital Age

15 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Tucker is a professor and director of impact and innovation in the school of psychology at the University of East London. His expertise is in digi...

Baylissa Frederick - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For our second interview for this World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day podcast I'm so pleased to get the chance to chat with Baylissa Frederick. Bayliss...

Jim Wright - World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we present the second part of our podcast to join in the events for World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day 2020 (W-BAD). In part o...

Angela Peacock - Medicating Normal

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we present a special episode of the podcast in advance of the events being held to mark World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day, J...

Awais Aftab - Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

MIA's Justin Karter interviews psychiatrist Awais Aftab about how "conceptual competence" uses philosophy to transform psychiatry. Awais Aftab is a ps...

John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the Evidence From Clinical Trials Justify its Continued Use?

13 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we turn our attention to electroconvulsive therapy (known as electroshock in the US). It's fair to say that ECT remains a contr...

Scott Greenspan - Exercise for Youth Mental Health in the Lockdown

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Greenspan recently received his doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As a mental health counselor, he wo...

Dainius Pūras - Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dainius Pūras is a medical doctor and human rights advocate. He is currently serving the final year of his term as the United Nations Special Rapport...

Sunil Bhatia - When Psychology Speaks for You, Without You

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sunil Bhatia is a professor and chair of the Department of Human Development at Connecticut College. He is the author of two books and over 50 article...

Nicole Beurkens – What If This Pandemic Is the Best Thing to Happen to Children with Challenges?

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we interview Nicole Beurkens, PhD, about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and "quarantine life" on children with different t...

MIA Town Hall 1 - Are We Living in the Most Dialogical Time Ever?

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we share the audio from our first Town Hall panel discussion. Mad in America, Open Excellence and the HOPEnDialogue project hav...

Sam Himelstein - The Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing on Adolescents

25 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we interview Sam Himelstein, PhD, about the impact of the Coronavirus crisis and "social distancing" policies on adolescents,...

Ian Puppe - Where Western Medicine Meets Indigenous Healing

18 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Puppe is an instructor and research associate in anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Puppe's work focuses on the...

Mab Segrest - Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mab Segrest is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Hau...

Paula Caplan - Listen to a Veteran

21 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Paula J. Caplan. Paula is a clinical and research psychologist, author of books and plays, playwright, actor, dir...

MIA Report - Medication-Free Treatment in Norway - A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage

14 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to MIA Reports, showcasing our independent and original journalism devoted to rethinking psychiatry. We take selected MIA Reports and provide...

Ian Parker - Psychology is Not What You Think

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Parker is one of the most important contemporary critics of the discipline of psychology. A prolific writer, with over 25 books to his name, he ha...

Beatrice Birch - Inner Fire and Soul Health

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we chat with Beatrice Birch who is the initiator of the residential healing community Inner Fire. For over 35 years, Beatrice ...

Laysha Ostrow - Live and Learn

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we interview Laysha Ostrow. Laysha is the founder and CEO of Live & Learn, a research and consulting company that specializes...

Peter Statsny - Reimagining Psychiatry

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Stastny is a New York-based psychiatrist, documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery ...

Sarah Kamens and Peter Kinderman - Moving Mental Health Work Away From Diagnosis

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Psychiatric diagnosis has come under increased scrutiny in recent years following the release of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Associa...

David Joslin – Remedy Alpine, Giving Veterans the Power to Seek Personal Discovery

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we share what is something of an anniversary for us at MIA. This interview marks one hundred episodes since we launched our pod...

John Read - UK Esketamine Approval - Not so Fast

01 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio we chat with Professor John Read of the University of East London. John worked for nearly 20 years as a Clinical Psychologist a...

Wendy Dolin - Making Akathisia a Household Word

25 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we interview Wendy Dolin founder of the MISSD foundation. MISSD stands for Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Educatio...

MIA Report - The Whistleblower and Penn - A Final Accounting of Study 352

22 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to MIA Reports, showcasing our independent and original journalism devoted to rethinking psychiatry. We take selected MIA Reports and provide...

Amanda Burrill - Self-Advocacy and Self-Belief – Escaping Psychiatric Drugs

18 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week on MIA Radio, we interview Amanda Burrill. After a successful career as a Surface Warfare Officer and Rescue Swimmer in the United States ...