Maria Mangicaro is a volunteer webmaster and blogger for the nonprofit organization The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, Inc., and an advocate for mental health care reform.

Her area of concentration is in developing an awareness on the underlying medical conditions and substances that induce psychotic symptoms and are commonly labeled as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

As an author and advocate she is intested in advancing ethical, best-practice psychiatry by cultivating a Participatory Model of Mental Health Care