People involved in creating this site                                                             

Dr Jonathan Bindman
is a consultant psychiatrist with a community mental health team in Brixton run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). He is also clinical director for the Mood, Anxiety and Personality Clinical Academic Group, which provides SLaM services for those problems in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. He started his career in mental health services as a nursing assistant, then studied medicine. While training in psychiatry he worked at Friern Barnet hospital at the time of its closure, which led to an ‘enduring appreciation of the need for effective community mental health services’. He worked as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, and then joined the Institute of Psychiatry as a researcher, working on studies of community mental health services from 1997 to 2005. He has also worked as a consultant psychiatrist in community mental health teams since 1998, and was involved in the development of a home treatment team.

Lucy Bristow
is a freelance camerawoman and part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, maintain and develop mentalhealthcare.org.uk. She shoots TV dramas, features, documentaries and films for the web and is experienced at working both on film and digitally.

Professor Len Bowers
is a professor of psychiatric nursing at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked in hospitals and community-based teams before moving into management. He took up a full-time research position at City University and embarked on a programme of research about ways to reduce conflict (including violence and absconding) and containment on inpatient wards. Len and his research team moved to the Institute of Psychiatry in 2010.

Dr Brock Chisholm
is a clinical psychologist who works at the Forced Migration Trauma Service run by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a specialist NHS clinic that provides treatment for refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants who have post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of war, torture, violence, rape or other trauma experienced in adulthood.

He previously worked in early intervention services for people with psychosis and at The Traumatic Stress Clinic. His research interests are in trauma and psychosis. He conducts workshops for other mental health professionals about how to work with people with psychotic symptoms who have suffered traumatic events. He also works with human rights charities and legal firms.

Professor Tom Craig
is a professor of community and social psychiatry in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist, working for services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. These include SHARP, the Social Inclusion and Hope Recovery Project, a service for people with schizophrenia in the south London borough of Lambeth. SHARP aims not just to offer people treatment and care, but also to help them find jobs, improve their family and social lives and have a reduced reliance on continuing mental health care.

Dr Paola Dazzan
is a clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and an honorary consultant psychiatrist working on the Mother and Baby Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital, run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Gabriela Enis
is a film editor and part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk. She has more than 20 years' of experience in British television and in recent years has been making films for the web. She teaches the art and technique of editing and how to use relevant software programmes in film schools and training centres around the UK. She also teaches documentary film-making in schools.

Professor Anne Farmer
is a professor of psychiatric nosology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and an honorary consultant psychiatrist in the Affective Disorders Unit run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her research focuses on gene and environmental risk factors for depression and bipolar disorder.

Professor Daniel Freeman
is a professor of clinical psychology and MRC senior clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He also works as a consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. His work focuses upon developing the psychological understanding and treatment of psychosis. He is one of the world’s leading experts on paranoia, and is lead author of Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts (2006), Paranoia (2008), Know Your Mind (2009) and Use Your Head (2010).

Sophie Gibson
is a designer who is part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk.

Professor Gisli Gudjonsson CBE
is emeritus professor of forensic psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

Professor Gudjonsson's research includes psychological vulnerability, false confession, and police interviewing. He pioneered the empirical measurement of suggestibility and provided expert evaluation in a number of high profile cases, including those of the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, the Tottenham Three, the Cardiff Three, Judith Ward, Peter Fell, Donald Pendleton, the Jill Dando murder case, Kenneth Erskine (the 'Stockwell strangler'), Derek Bentley, the UDR Four and ‘IRA funeral murders’ cases (both in Northern Ireland), Raymond Gilmour (in Scotland), Henry Lee Lucas and John Wille (USA), and the Birgitte Tengs and Orderud cases (Norway).

In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Iceland in recognition for his research in the field of forensic psychiatry and psychology. In 2010, the Professional Practice Board of the British Psychological Society granted him a Lifetime Achievement Award for his exceptional and sustained contribution to the practice of psychology.

Sarah Hamilton
is research manager at Rethink Mental Illness. Her projects there have included research into the implementation of personal budgets for mental health; experiences of stigma and discrimination among people with a diagnosis of mental illness; carers’ experiences and support needs; and user satisfaction with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, among others. She has a particular interest in user involvement in research, and is currently doing a PhD on communication in psychiatric consultations.

Dr Colin Hemmings
is a consultant psychiatrist in learning disabilities for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Dr Claire Henderson
is a researcher in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and a consultant psychiatrist in a community mental health team run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Much of her research currently focuses on developing ways to combat discrimination against people with mental health problems, including the evaluation of the anti-stigma campaign Time to Change. She also works on the CRIMSON study, which is testing how effective joint crisis plans are, and whether preparing for a relapse can help avoid compulsory treatment.

Dr Nick Hervey
is head of social care in the integrated mental health service managed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) in Southwark. He is also head of social care in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group (CAG) within the new Academic Health Sciences Centre called King's Health Partners (made up of King's College London and NHS organisations including SLaM). He trained as a social worker and has worked in local mental health services for more than 25 years. One of his key responsibilities is to work with mental health service commissioners and senior staff at SLaM to ensure the smooth running of partnership arrangements in mental health services locally. He is responsible too for the training and development of all mental health social work staff in Southwark.

He is the social care lead for the South London and South East Hub of the Mental Health Research Network and has a research interest in work with carers, and the beneficial outcomes of user involvement. He is also a member of the executive of the Social Perspectives Network, a group of professionals and service users that exists to promote the social care agenda within the NHS.

He has a special interest in the history of psychiatry, having completed a PhD on the History of the Nineteenth Century Lunacy Commissioners, and is chair of the Bethlem Museum and Archives Trustees. He has published various books and articles on the history of mental health and on current day practice, including an article on the development of a mental health user led pressure group in the mid 19th century.

Dr Frank Holloway
is an emeritus consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is a second opinion appointed doctor, a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal and a Mental Health Act trainer.

Alice Jackson
is head of arts therapies in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She manages and supervises art, music and dance/movement therapists and also works in a community-based team where she sees people for individual art therapy. Since 1997, she has been curator of the Adamson Collection. In this role, she manages, organises, publicises and catalogues more than 5,000 works of art amassed by Edward Adamson, one of the founders of British art therapy.

Dr Suzanne Jolley
is a consultant clinical psychologist working in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a research clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She is joint programme leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT for Psychosis and associated programmes offering training in cognitive behaviour therapy and family interventions for people with psychosis. She is involved in research into cognitive models of psychosis; developing and evaluating interventions for people with psychosis; and developing and evaluating training in these approaches.

Dr Theresa Joyce
is a consultant clinical psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Trust's Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding Adults clinical 'lead'.

Professor Cornelius Katona
is emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Kent, honorary professor of psychiatry of the elderly at University College London and works as a consultant psychiatrist for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. His main research interests are in dementia, mood disorders in old age and the mental health of asylum seekers. He is chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Affective Disorders, chair of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Taskforce on Old Age and co-founder and director/trustee of the International Society for Affective Disorders. He chairs the Dementia Clinical Studies Group within DeNDRoN (the National Institute for Health Research Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network). He is a trustee of the Medical Justice network. He is a former dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1998-2003) and former dean of the Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences (2003-2008).

Dr Nadine Keen
is a principal clinical psychologist, currently working at PICuP (Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis) at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (which offers cognitive behaviour therapy to people with psychosis) and as a course tutor on the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT for Psychosis at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She previously worked as a trial therapist on a research project testing cognitive behaviour therapy designed for people who experience command hallucinations. She has also worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in London (run by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust), offering specialist care to people with post traumatic stress disorder, and as a clinical psychologist on the London Bombings Screen and Treat Programme. 

Professor Elizabeth Kuipers
led the redevelopment and relaunch of mentalhealthcare.org.uk in February 2010 and has overall responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the site. A professor of clinical psychology, she heads the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She also works in mental health services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as an honorary consultant clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on psychosis and has included the development of work with families of people with schizophrenia and cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She chaired the group responsible for the development of the updated NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guideline for schizophrenia, published in March 2009 and is currently chairing the group responsible for a partial update of the same guideline (2011-2013). She is the co-author of Living with Mental Illness, a book for relatives and friends (Souvenir Press).

Tony Loynes
is a member of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to maintain and develop mentalhealthcare.org.uk. Tony's role is to make contact with and keep in touch with carers' groups. (Carers' groups can contact him on 020 7655 0885).

Professor Peter McGuffin
is a professor of psychiatric genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He also works in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's Affective Disorders Unit.

Professor Philip McGuire
is a professor of psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research mainly focuses on using neuroimaging to study the structure and function of the brain. He is also clinical director of OASIS (Outreach and Support in South London), a service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust for young people experiencing changes in their mood, think or normal routine.

Raselle Miller
is a psychology graduate who was part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild mentalhealthcare.org.uk in February 2010. Her role was to consult with carers’ groups and talk to individuals who help support a relative with a diagnosis of psychosis to find out their information needs.

Professor Sir Robin Murray
is professor of psychiatric research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research focuses on investigating the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and developing better treatments. Until his retirement in 2009, he worked on the National Psychosis Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant psychiatrist, caring for people referred from across the UK.

Dr Juliana Onwumere
is a consultant clinical psychologist working at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She carries out research in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, where she is also joint programme leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in Family Interventions in Psychosis and the Postgraduate Diploma in CBT for Psychosis. Her research focuses on family therapy and supporting care-givers of people with psychosis: she is particularly interested in making evidence-based family interventions more widely available.

Professor Carmine Pariante
is professor of biological psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, and a consultant perinatal psychiatrist in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Pariante and his co-workers in the Perinatal Psychiatry & Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology research team at the IoP are studying the role of stress hormones in the development of mental health problems, and investigating whether these hormones affect the way drugs that are prescribed for mental health problems work. His research focuses on depression, first-episode psychosis and psychiatric problems during pregnancy.

Dr Emmanuelle Peters
is the director of the Psychological Interventions Clinic for oUtpatients with Psychosis (PICuP), an award-winning service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that offers cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She is also a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Dr Peters has specialised in psychosis for the last two decades. As well as cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, her research interests include looking at the continuum between psychosis and normality.

Claire Price
is a chartered occupational psychologist. She has worked at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) since 2004 and has been responsible for setting up and developing vocational services in the London borough of Southwark. She is currently employment and social inclusion manager at SLaM and is involved in several initiatives to help people with mental health problems access employment, education, training and volunteering opportunities.

Gabrielle Richards
is the professional head of occupational therapy and lead for social inclusion at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), and a fellow of the College of Occupational Therapists. She is also responsible for the line management of physiotherapy, dietetics and welfare services run by SLaM, and chairs the Trust’s board that oversees its Social Inclusion, Rehabilitation and Recovery Strategy. She has worked in mental health for the majority of her career, working with older adults, on hospital wards and in community-based teams. Her particular interest is in clinical care that addresses the whole person, attending to both the physical and psychological needs of each individual.

Dr Sukhi Shergill
is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and a consultant psychiatrist in the National Psychosis Service at Bethlem Royal Hospital, which is run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. People who have treatment-resistant psychosis are referred here from all over the UK. Much of his research uses neuroimaging to understand more about the brain mechanisms involved in the symptoms of psychosis. The aim is to develop new, effective treatments for the large number of people with schizophrenia who do not respond to antipsychotic medication. 

David Singer

works for the London Borough of Lambeth in south London as self-directed support lead, Lambeth Mental Health. He has been leading the personalisation agenda in Lambeth mental health services since 2010 and is involved in many personalisation, co-production and transformation initiatives including The Collaborative (www.lambethcollaborative.org.uk). 

Professor Mike Slade
is professor of health services research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and a consultant clinical psychologist, working in services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He runs a programme of research about recovery and is investigating ways of changing mental health services so they better support individual people’s goals and aspirations. He has written over 150 academic articles and 7 books. He co-authored Making Recovery a Reality (2008, free to download at www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk), and his recent books are Personal Recovery and Mental Illness (published by Cambridge University Press, 2009), 100 Ways to Support Recovery (2009, free to download at rethink.org/100ways) and REFOCUS: Promoting recovery in community mental health services (2011, free to download at researchintorecovery.com/refocus). Further information on his research programme is at researchintorecovery.com.

Jane Smith
is a writer who is part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk.

Nikki Smith
qualified as a social worker and currently works as a care coordinator in one of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's community based mental health team specialising in supporting people who are experiencing psychosis for the first time, or who have recently become unwell. He has previously worked in social care services for people with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities and people with mental health problems. He qualified as an Approved Mental Health Professional in 2008 and is also a qualified practice assessor of social work trainees. His professional interests include family partnership work, mentalisation therapy and dual diagnosis work with people who have mental health problems and problems with substance use.

Professor David Taylor
is director of pharmacy and pathology at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and professor of psychopharmacology at King’s College London. He is the lead author of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, used by pharmacists and doctors around the English-speaking world. Professor Taylor has written or edited several books, including Schizophrenia in Focus, The use of Drugs in Psychiatry and Case Studies in Psychopharmacology.  He is editor in chief of Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology and was previously president of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists and chairman of the UK Psychiatric Pharmacy Group.

Professor Graham Thornicroft
is professor of community psychiatry and head of the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist working in services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His research includes studies about the extent of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems around the world, and developing ways to combat stigma. His book Shunned: Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness (Oxford University Press, Oxford) was named by the British Medical Association as Mental Health Book of the Year in 2007. He is involved in collaborations to better develop services and treatment in low-income countries, and his areas of expertise also include service user involvement in mental health research.

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