Authors

Rachel Freeth has worked as a general adult psychiatrist in the NHS for almost 25 years and also trained as a person-centred counsellor in the late 1990s. For many years she has been drawing on her two professional backgrounds to deliver training on psychiatry and mental health and has written many…

Joan Shohet has been supervising since 1972 and co-founded the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (www.cstdlondon.co.uk) in 1979. She now works as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist and mediator.  Her passion is in enabling people to find the work they love and love the work they do.  …

Robin Shohet worked as a primary school teacher and then residential social worker in a therapeutic community for people coming out of psychiatric hospital.  In 1979 he co-founded the Centre for Supervision and Team Development (www.cstdlondon.co.uk), specialising in supervision training. He is the author and editor of…

Robin Shohet has been supervising and training supervisors since 1976 and has published widely in the field, including co-authoring Supervision in the Helping Professions and editing Passionate Supervision and Supervision as Transformation. In addition to teaching supervision, he works with Appreciative Inquiry as part of a commitment to wanting to see…

Harry Gijbels is a retired mental health nurse and academic with over 40 years of experience in challenging mental health practices and education. He continues to be actively engaged in this work, for example with the Hearing Voices Network Ireland. Harry, along with his fellow editor Lydia Sapouna, played a key…

Lydia Sapouna is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. Her teaching, research and community contributions are primarily in the area of critical mental health, education and practice. She is very interested in the politics of mental health and the role of social activism…

Jo Watson is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer and activist with 30 years' experience of working with people who have faced trauma and adversity. She challenges the medicalisation of emotional distress and advocates for approaches that reject the pathologising of people and communities. Jo is founder of the Facebook group Drop the…

Chris Rose is a group psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant working in private practice and higher education. She has extensive experience in counselling and psychotherapy training and is also an urban sketcher and printmaker.

Catherine Jackson is Commissioning Editor with PCCS Books. She has worked in mental health journalism and publishing since the early 1990s, after a brief career as a cartoonist. Previously she was editor of Therapy Today, the founding editor of Mental Health Today magazine and managing editor of Bereavement…

Rosemary Rizq is a BPS chartered psychologist and a UKCP-accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton and worked for many years in the NHS, most recently for a secondary care psychoanalytic psychotherapy service in north-east London. She now has a part-time private practice…